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Everything Compliance: Shout Outs and Rants: Episode 156
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Corporate Divorce – Preventing and Managing the Break-Up of a Business Partnership
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Wolf Greenfield’s New Shareholders
Navigating Disputes Within Your Health Care Practice
When a co-shareholder purchases the debt obligations of the company without partners' knowledge
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JONES DAY TALKS®: Five Pillars of Series A Shareholder Rights: A Discussion for VC Investors
“Monsters, Inc.” y el buen gobierno corporativo
Marketing Minute Video with NP Strategy: Mastering Stakeholder Engagement
Conflictos de interés en Colombia, nueva regulación
Announcing Troutman Pepper's New Payments Pros Podcast! - The Consumer Finance Podcast
The Fundamentals of Shareholder Litigation
How ESG and Election Law Intersect: Putting the ‘S’ in ESG
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On July 1, 2025, a federal court of appeals held that the SEC's regulation of proxy advice exceeded its authority and the SEC's 2020 proxy advisor regulations are not valid. The court closely tracks the district court's...more
On December 22, 2023, the British Columbia Securities Commission (the BCSC) rendered a decision in NorthWest Copper Corp. (Re) clarifying when parties are considered to be “acting jointly or in concert” and the appropriate...more
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler has had a very active regulatory agenda that has invited a lot of controversy due to both its ambitious scope and the speed of implementation. While there are...more
Shareholder Proposal - Rule On July 13, 2022, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) proposed amendments to revise three of the substantive bases for exclusion of shareholder proposals under Rule 14a-8 of...more
Recent changes in the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proxy rules will give shareholders the ability to vote for directors like never before. The new rules will require companies to provide universal proxy cards to...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved mandatory “universal proxy” on November 17, 2021. The final rules will apply to contested director elections at shareholder meetings held after August 31, 2022. The...more
The nation’s largest shareholder advisory firm, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS”), recently filed suit against the SEC over new guidelines meant to give investors more transparency into how proxy advisory firms...more
On November 5, 2019, the SEC issued a release proposing amendments to the federal proxy rules that are intended to enhance the accuracy and transparency of information provided by proxy advisory firms to investors and...more
New Rules, Proposed Rules, Guidance and Alerts - PROPOSED RULES – SEC Proposes Rule Changes for Proxy Advisory Firms – On November 5, 2019, the SEC issued a release proposing amendments to the federal proxy rules...more
Stinson has prepared an analysis of proposed rules recently adopted by the SEC at an open meeting on November 5. SEC Commissioners voted 3-2 to propose potentially significant changes to the shareholder proposals...more
At the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the “Commission”) open meeting yesterday, the Commissioners approved two new proposed rules in their ongoing efforts to modernize proxy solicitation and shareholder proxy access,...more
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently issued guidance on the applicability of certain U.S. proxy rules to voting advice given by proxy advisory firms, such as ISS and Glass Lewis. This initiative...more
Two new compliance and disclosure interpretations (C&DIs) issued by the SEC permit the voluntary filing of solicitation materials in a Notice of Exempt Solicitation....more
The SEC has completed its previously announced review of when a shareholder proposal may be excluded under Rule 14a-8(i)(9) because it directly conflicts with another proposal. The SEC believes the Rule was intended to...more
In light of the approaching 2015 annual stockholder meeting season, below is an overview of the essential facts on proxy supplements and proxy amendments or revisions. Determining whether and how to amend proxy material...more
Background - On June 30, 2014, the SEC’s Divisions of Investment Management and Corporation Finance released Staff Legal Bulletin No. 20, a set of thirteen Questions and Answers offering guidance on...more
The SEC and Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (ISS) have settled public administrative and cease-and-desist proceedings initiated against ISS by the SEC alleging that ISS violated Section 204A of the Advisers Act by...more