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NYSE proposes compensation committee rule amendments

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 2 2012

As required by the Dodd-Frank Act and related SEC rules, the NYSE has issued proposed new listing standards related to compensation committee independence and responsibilities

Nasdaq proposes compensation committee rule amendments

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 1 2012

As required by the Dodd-Frank Act and related SEC rules, Nasdaq has issued proposed new listing standards related to compensation committee independence and responsibilities

How foreign private issuers are likely to be affected by new listing standards for compensation committees

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 26 2012

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the “Dodd-Frank Act”) directed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) to establish minimum standards that companies listed in the United States would have to meet in setting executive compensation

SEC adopts final compensation committee rules

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 25 2012

The SEC has published final rules to implement Section 952 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which mandates new listing standards related to compensation committee independence and responsibilities and new disclosure requirements regarding compensation consultant conflicts of interest

European Parliament votes to ban “naked” credit default swaps on sovereign debt and restrict “naked” short sales

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • European Union
  • -
  • November 28 2011

On November 15, 2011, the European Parliament adopted a regulation banning any person or legal entity in the European Union (“EU entities”) from entering into “naked,” or uncovered, credit default swaps (“CDS”) on sovereign debt and restricting uncovered short sales on shares and sovereign debt (the “Regulation”) after November 1, 2012

ISS publishes 2012 voting policy updates

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • November 21 2011

Institutional Shareholder Services has published its 2012 updates to its voting policies, effective for meetings on or after February 1, 2012

Designation of systemically important nonbank financial institutions under the Dodd-Frank Act

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 10 2011

The Financial Stability Oversight Council (“FSOC”) has published a proposed rule and interpretive guidance (together, the “Rule”) that detail the criteria and process the FSOC would use to designate nonbank financial companies as systemically important pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act

FINRA revises its proposal on private placements

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 28 2011

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has proposed new Rule 5123 (Private Placements of Securities), which would require FINRA member firms (“members”) to provide investors in private placements with detailed information about the intended use of proceeds of the private placement, including offering expenses and compensation of members

SEC staff issues cybersecurity disclosure guidance

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 19 2011

The Staff of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance has issued written guidance (CF Disclosure Guidance: Topic No. 2) setting forth the views of the Staff regarding disclosure obligations in respect of cybersecurity risks and cyber incidents

SEC proposes disclosure rules regarding the use of conflict minerals

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 20 2011

In December 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed rules to implement Section 1502 of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which requires SEC reporting companies to disclose whether they use “conflict minerals” in their products