President-elect Donald Trump’s impending return to power on January 20, 2025, has created uncertainty and challenges for proxy advisory firms, such as ISS and Glass Lewis, which provide voting recommendations to investors on...more
1/9/2025
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Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Reform ,
Trump Administration
On October 26, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted Rule 10D-1, a rule requiring companies to recover erroneously awarded incentive-based compensation based on mistakes in the companies’ financial...more
On August 25, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) announced that it adopted a final rule requiring companies to disclose information that is intended to reflect the relationship between compensation paid...more
9/14/2022
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Compensation ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Emerging Growth Companies ,
Executive Compensation ,
Foreign Private Issuers ,
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Pay-for-Performance ,
Principal Executive Officer ,
Regulation S-K ,
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Smaller Reporting Companies ,
Total Shareholder Return (TSR)
On October 5, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in New England Teamsters and Trucking Industry Pension Fund v. Sun Capital Partners III, LP, et al.1 The Supreme Court’s decision not to review the First Circuit’s...more
In the energy space, smaller companies are finding it harder to compete on their own and larger companies need more scale to improve operational efficiencies and boost shareholder value leading to many business...more
8/28/2020
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Continuing Legal Education ,
Corporate Governance ,
Energy Sector ,
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Industry Consolidation ,
Judicial Authority ,
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Key Takeaways-
•Stock price plunges caused by COVID and current market conditions create fertile ground for stockholder litigation, including claims by participants in retirement plans funded with employer securities that...more