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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

CFTC finalizes end-user exception to the clearing and trade execution requirement for swaps

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 30 2012

On July 19, 2012, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) published a final rule (the “Final Rule”) clarifying the end-user exception to the mandatory swap clearing requirements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the “Dodd-Frank Act”

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

SEC continues to provide guidance on JOBS Act

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 22 2012

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”) became law on April 5, 2012, implementing sweeping changes to the rules governing IPOs and private capital formation in the United States by domestic and foreign issuers

JOBS Act facilitates IPOs and eases restrictions on private capital formation in the United States

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 19 2012

On April 5, President Obama signed into law the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”), implementing sweeping changes to the rules governing IPOs and private capital formation in the United States by domestic and foreign issuers

Proxy access shareholder proposals where are we now?

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 28 2012

In July 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit rejected as “arbitrary and capricious” the SEC’s new Rule 14a-11 that would have affirmatively allowed shareholders to have their board candidates included in the company's proxy materials, subject to certain conditions

Pending JOBS Act to encourage IPOs in the United States and reduce legal restrictions for private companies raising capital prior to an IPO

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

Private companies have long faced a host of regulatory obstacles in their quest for capital in the United States, whether in the private markets or via an IPO in the public markets

NYSE ends broker discretionary voting for certain corporate governance proposals

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 27 2012

The New York Stock Exchange has announced that, in keeping with recent Congressional and public policy trends disfavoring broker voting of uninstructed shares (including the elimination of such voting in director elections by the NYSE and the elimination of such voting on executive compensation matters by the Dodd-Frank Act), the Exchange would end its prior policy of allowing broker voting on certain corporate governance proposals that are supported by management

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