Compliance Tip of the Day: Internal Controls for GTE
Episode 372 -- DOJ Applies False Claims Act to Tariff and Trade Violations
Episode 371 -- DOJ's New Corporate Enforcement Program
Compliance Amidst a Global Consensus Breakdown
Compliance Tip of the Day: Discipline and Rigor in GTE Internal Controls
Great Women in Compliance: Board Bond - Why Ethics & Compliance Professionals Should Be on Boards and How to Get on One
Compliance into the Weeds: Boeing, a NPA and the End of Monitors
Compliance Tip of the Day: What are Internal Controls?
Innovation in Compliance: Break the Five Lies - A Conversation with John Kormanik
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending May 24, 2025
Compliance Tip of the Day - Contextual Diversity in Compliance
Creativity and Compliance - Overcoming Conservatism in Compliance Education with Creativity
Daily Compliance News: May 23, 2025, The Gutless Wonders Edition
Great Women in Compliance – Compliance is the Floor, Ethics is the Ceiling with Ellen Hunt
Compliance into the Weeds: Of Wal-Mart, Tariffs and Stakeholder Capitalism
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 14: The Pig Around the Corner: Privacy and Trade with Constantine Karbaliotis of nNovation LLP
Tariffs and Trade Series: What Boards of Directors Need to Know
Upping Your Game: Episode 3 - Embedded Compliance: From Gatekeeper to Business Enabler
Innovation in Compliance: Staying the Course in Compliance: Insights from Kristy Grant-Hart
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – Business Lessons from A Study in Scarlet
Key Points - Revised guidance from the SEC regarding ownership reporting is making institutional investors circumspect about raising issues with management. - Seeking to influence a company’s executive compensation, or...more
On 11 March 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) published a statement clarifying that their rules, including with regards to sustainability, do not prevent investment in or financing of defence companies. The...more
Only a short time has elapsed since President Trump named Mark T. Uyeda as Acting Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on January 21, 2025. Already, however, the regulatory climate has shifted significantly...more
As companies prepare for engagement with their shareholders in connection with the 2025 annual meeting season, they should be prepared for a change in the approach followed by institutional investors. These changes are being...more
The European Commission (“the Commission”) has adopted a new package of proposals to simplify European Union ("EU") rules, boost competitiveness, and unlock additional investment capacity. The aim of the first Omnibus package...more
This Cooley Alert that I blogged about earlier today – penned by Brad Goldberg, Beth Sasfai, Luci Altman, and Michael Mencher – has been updated for this development...more
The European Union published its long-awaited "Omnibus" package, proposing to delay key European ESG rules, while simultaneously reducing the applicability and burden of corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence...more
In today’s polarized and politically charged climate, few topics spark as much debate as ESG. Once a niche concern limited to green investors and idealistic board members, ESG has evolved into a mainstream business priority....more
The SEC staff recently modified guidance indicating when “shareholder engagement” by an investor holding more than 5% of the stock of a public company constitutes “influencing control” that requires reporting on a long-form...more
On February 11, 2025, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) announced a change to its voting policy with respect to board diversity. ISS will no longer consider the gender and racial and/or ethnic diversity of U.S. company...more
On February 11, 2025, Mark T. Uyeda, the acting chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, took action with respect to The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate Disclosures for Inventors rule, which was adopted...more
On January 28, 2025 a resolution amending the General provisions applicable to issuers and other participants in the securities market (the "Resolution") was published in the Federal Official Gazette, to include obligations...more
In a rare move to update its voting policies in the midst of proxy season, ISS issued this press release stating it will no longer consider a board’s gender, racial or ethnic diversity when making director election...more
Citing recent DEI developments in the U.S., ISS released its Statement on Diversity Factors in Director Elections on February 11, 2025 announcing that it will “indefinitely halt consideration of certain diversity factors in...more
In recent years, we have seen more class action securities claims against UK listed companies — akin to US style “stock-drop” litigation. These claims are typically brought by groups of investors, backed by financing...more
On January 31, 2025, Vanguard issued its proxy voting policy for US portfolio companies, following the publication of BlackRock’s proxy voting guidelines for benchmark policies – US securities in December 2024. The updates...more
Updated Principles of Remuneration - On the 9 October 2024, the Investment Association (‘IA’), a trade body for UK investment managers, published the Principles of Remuneration (the Principles). IA members are...more
Le 18 décembre 2024, le Conseil canadien des normes d’information sur la durabilité (le « CCNID »), lequel menait des travaux depuis juin 2023 visant à mettre en place un cadre relatif à la durabilité au Canada, a publié les...more
This week, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce delivered the keynote address at the Northwestern Securities Regulation Institute in San Diego. Her theme: that public companies are “confronting a symptom of a larger societal...more
The latest edition of Davies’ Governance Insights is now available. In this issue, we review 10 developments that general counsel and directors of Canadian public companies, and their investors, should know for 2025 and...more
Carey Olsen have contributed to the Global Legal Insights – Fund Finance guide by authoring a chapter on assessing lender risk in fund finance markets. As the fund finance market continues to evolve, lenders will need to...more
The Corporate Governance Code recommends that the board of directors promote, in the most appropriate forms, dialogue with shareholders and other stakeholders relevant to the company, thus tying the goal of "sustainable...more
Stanford Business recently posted an interesting article describing the results of a three-year study conducted to analyze American retail investors' attitudes toward environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues....more
It’s clear that over the past few years, investors have tweaked their voting policies to tone down use of the term “ESG.” And it’s also clear that more and more companies are changing the title of their reports relating to...more
President-elect Donald Trump’s impending return to power on January 20, 2025, has created uncertainty and challenges for proxy advisory firms, such as ISS and Glass Lewis, which provide voting recommendations to investors on...more