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As annual meeting season approaches, so too does the first deadline for companies listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market (Nasdaq) to comply with amended compensation committee rules. Traditionally, evaluation of director independence of Nasdaq-listed companies differed for purposes of serving …
The following post comes from Professor Jeff Schwartz of the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law:
The influential SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies recently approved a new set of recommendations. The boldest among them is …
The Dodd-Frank Act gave the SEC the authority to adopt, but did not require it to adopt, a uniform fiduciary standard of conduct for both broker-dealers and investment advisers when providing personalized investment advice about securities to retail customers. On …
One of the highest-profile provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act is Section 922. That provision provides protection and monetary awards for whistleblowers. To qualify, the whistleblower must provide information to the Securities and Exchange Commission that leads to the recovery of …
On March 1, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP released its March 2013 Dodd-Frank Progress Report, which can be found here. Davis Polk issues these Progress Reports monthly to update the market on the progress of the rulemaking required under …
Yesterday, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP released its January 2013 Dodd-Frank Progress Report, which can be found here. This report is one in a series of Davis Polk presentations that illustrate graphically the progress of the rulemaking work that …
For a number of years, commentators have noted that securities “reform” legislation seems to be passed only in the wake of major stock market crashes, with this pattern dating back to the South Sea Bubble. Some have argued that this …