Is Third-Party Securities Regulation Having Its Day?
Last year, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink famously fired a warning shot at public company CEOs. In a 2018 letter, he declared that BlackRock—with $6 trill...
Tech Employees Appear Ready to Flex Muscles as Shareholders
Back during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, tech companies became notorious for lavishing employees with company stock and options as a form of co...
An Eventful Year for Elon Musk
A year ago, Tesla, Inc. CEO Elon Musk was known as a visionary entrepreneur who was revolutionizing the auto industry. While gossip pages chronicled h...
SEC Year in Review: Clayton Begins to Make Waves
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton took office in the middle of 2017, but 2018 feels like the year he finally started to pu...
Pension Funds Assume Activist Role in Private Equity Investments
For more than a year now, we’ve been talking about a Wall Street phenomenon. Activist and institutional investors, we’ve noted, are increasingly s...
Airbnb Tempts Clayton with Stock Proposal
Here’s something you might be concerned about if you run a “sharing economy” business like Airbnb or Uber: payments to people who earn income fr...