First deadline approaching for NYSE and NASDAQ listed companies to comply with new compensation committee rules *

USA - May 9 2013
As noted in our Securities Alert dated October 9, 2012, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq) proposed rule changes…

Co-authors: Paul Bork.

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SEC decides that companies may use social media *

USA - April 8 2013
On July 3, 2012, the CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings, used his personal Facebook page to announce that Netflix had streamed 1 billion hours of content…

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SEC’s conflict minerals rule challenged *

USA - October 25 2012
On October 19, 2012, the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce petitioned the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to request that the SEC’s scheme of disclosure related to so-called “conflict minerals” utilized in products of issuers “be modified or set aside, in whole or in part”.

Co-authors: Matthew C. Baltay, Brandon F. White, Paul Bork.

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce sues SEC to overturn controversial Dodd-Frank resource extraction rule *

USA - October 18 2012
On October 10, 2012, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and three industry groups filed suit against the Securities and Exchange Commission in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking to overturn the recently-promulgated SEC rule implementing the Dodd-Frank Act provision requiring disclosure of payments to foreign governments relating to oil, gas and mining projects.

Co-authors: Matthew C. Baltay, Brandon F. White, Paul Bork.

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NYSE and NASDAQ propose listing standards for compensation committees and compensation advisers *

USA - October 9 2012
On September 25, 2012, the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ Stock Market proposed rule changes to their respective listing standards affecting public company boards of directors, compensation committees and compensation advisers in response to recently adopted directives of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Co-authors: Paul Bork.

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