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17 Jul 8:13 am
... , is going to join Bingham McCutchen LLP in their Orange County office. From 1977 to 1986, Cox worked out of the Orange County office
Latham & Watkins. At the time of his retirement in 1986 he ... in 1988 from a Congressional District based around Orange County and served for 17 years. Cox will be part of Bingham's corporate, mergers and acquisitions, and securities practice. References: Christopher
Cox, Former SEC Chairman, Heads to Bingham from Law.com and the National Law Journal Former SEC ...
30 Apr, 2007 7:52 am
... nominating their director candidates and could increase the influence of shareholders. Mr. Cox says a final vote on this issue will take
place this year. This issue could be especially ... has been in office since August 3, 2005. Since his tenure, Mr. Cox has made SEC enforcement
the agency's priority, and he has ... and decisions of stockbrokers and brokerages. For a free consultation, contact Shepherd Smith and Edwards online. SEC Biography: Chairman
Christopher Cox Securities and Exchange Commission
28 May, 2007 6:48 am
If you don't think Christopher Cox is a polarizing figure, read these comments from last week's blog
post on whether the SEC chairman is an investor advocate or corporate shill. This morning, the WSJ ... savvy PR offensive by Lerach: If the SEC doesn't back shareholders on this issue,
it will only add to the increased criticism of the SEC under Cox as being too cozy with business interests. The SEC raised eyebrows this term
when it took a pro-defendant position in Tellabs, argued before the Supreme ...
13 Dec, 2006 4:12 pm
... 's why. 1. Angelina Jolie has agreed to play the role of Dagney Taggart in the film verson of Ayn Rand's best-selling book, Atlas Shrugged. 2. Christopher Cox wrote a review of Letters of Ayn Rand. 3. Christopher
Cox heads the SEC. 4. The SEC just proposed several major changes that potentially impact pension funds' investments in hedge funds, securities
issued by companies that comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and non-U.S. ...
19 Sep, 2008 10:58 pm
This is what we are going to get for President? McCain loses it, goes off message and threatens to fire one of the best heads of the SEC (at least from a Republican standpoint. McCain
says he would fire SEC head Christopher Cox -- Newsday.com: "McCain says he would fire SEC head
Christopher Cox" Check out google on this. He is way off base, and way off message for his
campaign..again.
19 Nov, 2007 10:14 am
SEC Chair Christopher Cox applies the lessons of Japanese feudal history to international securities
regulation: [Tokyo] was a castle city and once the headquartes of the shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu. You might recall that the history of his rise to power was fictionalized in James
Clavell's novel Shogun. Tokugawa is a fascinating historical figure: He came to power after years of civil war, and established a system that led to centuries of peace, and the
flowering of culture ...
4 Jul, 2008 1:53 am
... ; Wireless sent us a take down request claiming that we were "publishing a confidential Hosting Contract between Cable & Wiress and Rackspace Managed Hosting Limited." Not sure
how the contract is confidential since Christopher Cox has it up on his website as well and his
website gets much more traffic than ours. The really amazing part is that Cable & Wireless, one of the world's leading international communications companies. ...
19 Oct, 2007 8:12 am
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox still plans to hold a vote on a competing
set of proxy access rules in November, even though the SEC likely ... end of the year. "The commitment we have repeatedly made is to have [a rule] in place," Cox told reporters on Oct. 12, according to news reports. "The process remains the same." ... not disclosed her departure date. In July, Nazareth and Campos
joined with Cox in a 3-2 vote to issue a draft rule to allow shareholder groups with a 5 ...
14 Mar, 2007 7:15 am
... Markets Against the backdrop of a detailed blue-ribbon panel report urging securities regulation reform, SEC Chair Christopher
Cox rejected the call for Congress to amend the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He said it is wrong to condemn the entire ... but said he will not play the
stereotype of a deregulatory Republican Congressman. It is not necessary for their interests to be at odds, according to Cox. He cited the
words of the SEC's first chairman, Joseph Kennedy, who said the SEC is the partner of honest ...
15 Jul, 2007 5:15 am
... of the blog. The story included interviews with a number of people about the influence of blogs, including SEC Chairman Christopher
Cox. Interestingly, as he talks about the importance of blogs, he provides a reminder that blogs can transgress the securities laws, ...
discovery to better corporate governance, investors, markets, managements and boards will never be the same. Favorite blogs: Mr. Cox prefers
not to specify any favorite blog because "the way that some SEC followers hang on every agency ...
19 Sep, 2008 12:17 pm
... defense. Both of these actions are breathtaking. McCain obviously is looking for a scapegoat in his efforts to win the Presidency. And Cox
looks wildly paranoid - and stooping low to engage in politics when he is supposed to be managing an independent federal ... McCain's unbelievable flip-flopping of late, I can't help
it. I guess that means next week McCain will say that Cox will be named Treasurer if he gets elected. On Wednesday, McCain was saying that the
government should let AIG fail - but ...
20 Oct, 2008 9:34 pm
Christopher Cox wrote an editorial yesterday in the New York Times stating the obvious: the credit
default swaps market should be regulated. Cox proposes that Congress enact legislation to bring the traditional tools of ... of a crash.
However, a thoughtful consideration of how to deal with the systemic risks associated with credit default swaps is missing from the Cox
discussion. Some of the obvious questions about credit default swaps are not discussed. To what extent are credit default swaps an ...
6 Nov, 2006 1:11 pm
Peter Lattman at the WSJ's Law Blog reports SEC Chairman Christopher Cox posted a comment on a blog.
Cox further applauded the use of corporate websites as as a source of information to the market and investors. Sun ... were to embrace your
suggestion that the 'widespread dissemination' requirement of Regulation FD can be satisfied through web disclosure,' writes Cox, 'among the
questions that would need to be addressed is whether there exist effective means to guarantee that a corporation uses its ...
8 Aug, 2007 9:16 am
... Oxley Act of 2002 has been successful, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox said after the fifth anniversary of the law's passage. The sweeping corporate ... at Enron, WorldCom, and other companies that cost investors billions of
dollars. According to Cox, who came to the SEC two years after the law was signed, the primary aim of the legislation-- ... of fraud-related
securities class-action suits has gone way down, Cox told Renée Montagne, host of National Public Radio's "Morning ...
21 Jan 8:10 pm
Yesterday was Christopher Cox's last day of a 3.5 year term as Chair of the Securities and Exchange
Commission, the United States federal agency charged with investor protection. Investors may be tempted to feel ... the increased opportunities for fraud, although the costs may again
run to billions of dollars. In addition, as Chair of the SEC, Mr. Cox concentrated considerable personal and institutional resources on two
subjects that subordinated investor interests to pursue projects that Mr. Cox ...
13 Dec, 2007 3:03 pm
... access" decision at its November 28 meeting-while paying little or no attention to the thoughtful statement of SEC Chairman Christopher
Cox on the subject. It's a bit sad when we academics surrender to the sloppy sloganeering of interest groups and the press ... place. If one
supports meaningful proxy access as a matter of policy, then the villain in this little drama is not Chris Cox but former Commissioner Roel
Campos who, although supporting proxy access verbally, left the stage hastily before ...
23 Dec, 2008 11:25 am
... like it that a sitting Congressman was appointed as the head of an independent agency. The SEC was already being "politicized" before Cox
arrived, but this trend accelerated on his watch. And some say ... Cox cared more about how the media perceived him than how the Staff
performed (one of his responses to the credit crunch was hiring two more PR guys). It has been ... We Didn't Do It" Now, I'm certainly not blaming Chris Cox for this financial crisis (nor do I blame him for any failures in not catching ...
12 Nov, 2006 11:19 am
... for NYSE and NASD As the NYSE and NASD move towards the harmonization of their rules, SEC Chairman Christopher Cox envisions the further step to a single SRO at some time in the future. In recent remarks to the Securities Industry and ... in their two rulebooks, as
well as report to the Commission on which of the rules have not been reconciled. Chairman Cox reported that the resulting recommendations are
being reviewed internally at the NYSE and NASD. He expects that the proposed rule changes will ...
9 Mar, 2007 5:16 am
... important pro-investor stands, including statements of support for SOX. See testimony here. Testimony of SEC Chairman Christopher
Cox Concerning The Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, before the US House Committee on Financial Services, Sept. ... . Having said that, there
are some troublesome aspects to the oversight exercised by the Commission under the reign of Chairman Cox in the area of corporate governance.
This Blog has criticized the Commission for not taking a more active role in ensuring the ...
19 Feb, 2007 6:49 am
... Law Institute's "SEC Speaks" conference was recently held in Washington, DC. In his keynote address, SEC Chairman Christopher
Cox reviewed the initiatives the SEC has undertaken in his 80 weeks as chairman, including the most comprehensive overhaul of ... not have been
more timely, he said, given that the stock option backdating scandal was just coming to light. Mr. Cox said that the SEC's investigations into
backdating practices illustrate the value of interactive data. Once the SEC began receiving ...
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