Barnett and Benjamin Strauss, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 Tags: Delaware cases, Delaware law, DGCL, IPOs, Merger litigation, Mergers & acquisitions, SPACs, Special purpose vehicles The SEC’s Short-Sale Experiment: Evidence on Causal Channels and on the Importance of Specification Choice in Randomized and Natural Experiments Posted by Hemang Desai (Southern Methodist University), on Wednesday, March 30,… [read post]

Segal, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Saturday, January 7, 2017 Tags: Boards of Directors, Compensation disclosure, Compensation guidelines, Compensation ratios, Compensation regulation, Director compensation, Dodd-Frank Act, Glass Lewis, ISS, Management, Proxy advisors, Say on frequency, Say on pay, Securities regulation, Taxation, Whistleblowers Sustainability Practices: 2016 Edition Posted by Matteo Tonello, The Conference Board, Inc., on Sunday, January 8, 2017 Tags:… [read post]

Securities and Exchange Commission, on Saturday, November 21, 2020 Tags: Accounting, Accounting standards, Climate change, Disclosure, ESG, Regulation S-K, Risk disclosure, Sarbanes–Oxley Act, SEC, SEC rulemaking, Securities regulation, Sustainability Russell 3000 Database of Executive Compensation Changes in Response to COVID-19 Posted by Matteo Tonello (The Conference Board, Inc.) and Olivia Voorhis and Justin Beck… [read post]

In many respects, their policies hew to the rubric of “authoritarian upgrading” that Steven Heydemann wrote about in 2007: appropriate and contain civil society groups, manage political contestation, capture benefits of selective economic reforms, control emerging communications technology, and play the economic field to find new diplomatic partners. [read post]

Key Findings Allowing companies to fully and immediately deduct investments in structures is one of the most cost-efficient ways lawmakers can stimulate investment, create jobs, and boost GDP during a post-pandemic recovery. [read post]