10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending July 19, 2025
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 242: Business Planning in Healthcare & Life Sciences with Jennifer McEwen of Maynard Nexsen
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Sunday Book Review: June 15, 2025. The Books on Corporate Governance Edition
Corporate Divorce – Preventing and Managing the Break-Up of a Business Partnership
Compliance into the Weeds: Of Wal-Mart, Tariffs and Stakeholder Capitalism
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Wolf Greenfield’s New Shareholders
Navigating Disputes Within Your Health Care Practice
When a co-shareholder purchases the debt obligations of the company without partners' knowledge
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JONES DAY TALKS®: Five Pillars of Series A Shareholder Rights: A Discussion for VC Investors
“Monsters, Inc.” y el buen gobierno corporativo
Marketing Minute Video with NP Strategy: Mastering Stakeholder Engagement
Conflictos de interés en Colombia, nueva regulación
Announcing Troutman Pepper's New Payments Pros Podcast! - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Companies doing business in Texas and California should be aware of the following state law developments, which could affect them....more
Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) recently released its Annual Benchmark Policy Survey (the "Policy Survey"). In keeping with its prior practice, ISS seeks responses from institutional shareholders, issuers,...more
Despite the sense of relief that many companies initially felt with the SEC’s stay of its climate disclosure rules, the pause is unlikely to temper the forces demanding climate disclosures by other means. In the latest paper...more
Today, the Treasury Department and other federal agencies (including the Agriculture Department and Energy Department) issued a joint statement identifying seven principles that should be applied in the voluntary carbon...more
Amidst challenges and conflicting demands from a variety of stakeholders, technology and life sciences companies have increased their voluntary disclosure regarding environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns. Despite...more
Key Points - On Wednesday, March 6, 2024, the SEC in a 3-2 vote adopted “The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors” (Final Rule). The Final Rule will require public companies to...more
On January 26, 2024, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that it would place a temporary “pause” on pending decisions to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to countries with which the United States has not entered into...more
Over the past few years, activist investors have submitted a number of shareholder proposals to major fossil fuel companies concerning issues relating to climate change. Recently, two such investors submitted a proposal...more
ExxonMobil (“Exxon”) filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Sunday, January 21, 2024, seeking a declaratory judgment to exclude a shareholder proposal from its proxy statement...more
The Mintz Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Working Group developed this ESG primer to provide an overview of the current state of affairs in the United States with respect to the ESG issues that businesses...more
In the October edition of our Public Company Watch, we cover key issues impacting public companies, including the SEC adopting rules modernizing beneficial ownership reporting and short sale reporting, and issuing new C&DIs...more
Mitigating climate change impacts is becoming a critical business priority, and the pressure to achieve corporate sustainability objectives is mounting as investment-focused regulations continue to drive companies toward...more
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law & Inflation Reduction Act Opportunities - Visit our Energy Funding Matrix for a roundup of all of the various clean energy opportunities. We update the matrix on a biweekly basis and welcome...more
On 8 March 2023, the French Financial Markets Authority (Autorité des Marchés Financiers – AMF) issued a statement on the management of environmental and climate-related concerns within the framework of shareholder dialogue....more
According to the Securities & Exchange Commission, its proposed revisions to SEC regulations regarding climate change disclosures in May 2022 were intended to provide investors with consistent and reliable information...more
Background On November 4, 2021, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) released proposed updates to its US benchmark voting policies for 2022, with a public comment period running through November 16, 2021. The draft policy...more
Background - This alert summarizes the results from ISS’s 2021 policy surveys, which were released on October 1, 2021. As we explained in our previous alert, ISS collects information each year from institutional...more
Last year, the Business Roundtable created quite a buzz when it released a new Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation that moved “away from shareholder primacy” as a guiding principle and opted in to a kind of “stakeholder...more
Recent, seemingly disparate action by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with respect to two shareholder proposals may leave companies and shareholders confused as to whether companies may exclude shareholder...more
While EPA continues to go backwards on climate, evidence continues to mount that investors are only going to get more aggressive. There were two developments worth noting this month. First, Bloomberg Markets reported that...more
Similar to last year, there are no new disclosure requirements which need to be reflected in this year’s proxy statement; however, with ongoing shareholder activism and the desire of companies to communicate effectively with...more