SBA’s Proposed Changes to the Regulation In order to establish uniformity, SBA is proposing to add one additional “extraordinary circumstance” to the VetCert regulations (at 13 C.F.R. 128.203(j)), namely that a minority investor may be able to block amendments of the company’s corporate governance documents that would remove the shareholder’s authority to block any of the other extraordinary actions. [read post]

—EPA News Release, December 21, 2009 A southwest Missouri pet supply dealer has agreed to pay a $56,632 civil penalty to the United States to settle allegations that it violated the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) by repackaging, relabeling and selling an insecticide meant for use on cattle and hogs as a flea and tick treatment for dogs. [read post]

Major Connecticut-based corporations are decamping to other states, reducing their in-state footprint, or being acquired by out-of-state firms, including, most recently, the merger of the Massachusetts-based Raytheon Company with the Connecticut-based United Technologies, with the new company to be headquartered in the Boston area.[16] Here too, relocations are not primarily to the Sun Belt, but toward places like New York City, Boston, and Chicago. [read post]