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Comparing the CFTC position limits litigation with the SEC proxy access litigation
- Leonard, Street and Deinard
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- USA
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- December 4 2011
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., or ISDA, and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, or SIFMA, have filed a legal challenge to the CFTC’s final rules that limit the positions that investors may own in certain commodities
Gupta claims Dodd-Frank cannot be applied retroactively
- Leonard, Street and Deinard
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- USA
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- March 18 2011
The SEC brought civil insider trading charges against Rajat Gupta in an administrative proceeding
First Dodd-Frank whistleblower case may impact internal investigations
- Leonard, Street and Deinard
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- USA
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- May 10 2011
Egan v. TradingScreen Inc. (S.D.N.Y. May 4, 2011) is the first case dealing with the Dodd-Frank Act’s whistleblower provisions that we are aware of
A comparison of the Cincinnati Bell and Beazer say-on-pay decisions
- Leonard, Street and Deinard
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- USA
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- October 6 2011
In Cincinnati Bell, the United States District Court declined to grant a motion to dismiss a law suit resulting from a failed say-on-pay vote
Speculation, inconsistencies and bad math kill proxy access
- Leonard, Street and Deinard
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- USA
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- July 22 2011
SEC Rule 14a-11 allowed a shareholder (or group of shareholders) to include a shareholder nominee, in certain limited circumstances, in a public company’s proxy statement
Faultless Sarb-Ox clawbacks for CEOs and CFOs delay lets you negotiate down
- Leonard, Street and Deinard
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- USA
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- November 15 2011
The SEC has announced that the former chief executive officer and chairman of CSK Auto Corporation, Maynard Jenkins, has agreed to return $2.8 million in bonus compensation and stock profits that he received while the company was committing accounting fraud
Court refuses to dismiss say-on-pay lawsuit
- Leonard, Street and Deinard
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- USA
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- September 22 2011
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio recently refused to grant the defendants’ motion to dismiss litigation resulting from Cincinnati Bell’s failed say-on-pay vote required by the Dodd-Frank Act
SEC study on the cross-border scope of the private right of action under Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act
- Leonard, Street and Deinard
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- USA
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- April 11 2012
Section 929Y of the Dodd-Frank Act directed the SEC to solicit public comment and then conduct a study to consider extending a private right of action for transnational securities fraud
The errors in the Cincinnati Bell say-on-pay decision
- Leonard, Street and Deinard
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- USA
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- September 24 2011
As we noted, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio recently declined to grant a motion to dismiss filed by the officers and directors of Cincinnati Bell that resulted from a failed say-on-pay vote required by the Dodd-Frank Act
SEC stays proxy access rules
- Leonard, Street and Deinard
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- USA
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- October 4 2010
As we noted last week, the Business Roundtable and the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America (the "petitioners") filed a petition with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seeking review of recent changes to the SEC's proxy and related rules
