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Author: Adria Hunter

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SEC Hangs Up Its Whistle on Shareholder Proposals

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The SEC is taking the term “no action” more literally than it ever has before. The agency took its first step away from the no-action process last November, when the Division of Corporation Finance said it would stop weighing in on most com...

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Back to the Ledger: The SEC Stands Up a Dedicated Accounting Fraud Unit

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The SEC has created dedicated accounting-fraud teams before. It did so in 2013 with a Financial Reporting and Audit Task Force, and again this past spring with a “SOX group” that arrived with little more fanfare than a pair of job listings....

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Will Third Tariff Regime Charm the Courts?

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If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That can-do sentiment could serve as the tagline for the administration’s newest tariff regime, which took effect on July 24. Acting under the Trade Act of 1974, the U.S. Trade Representative i...

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Easy Prediction for 2026: Insider Trading Concerns

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Will Anthropic go public by December 31, 2026? Most people on Polymarket think so (it costs one dollar to win 71 cents as of this writing). But we wouldn’t advise betting on it, especially if you’re an Anthropic employee. Anthropic is consi...

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Look, No Hands: The 2026 Proxy Season After the SEC’s No-Action Pullback

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When the 2026 proxy season opened, corporate secretaries braced for the usual scramble over which shareholder proposals had to appear on the ballot and which could be left off. What most of them no longer had was the referee they had leaned...

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