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Category: Legal

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Five Takeaways From the 2025 Proxy Season

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With the 2025 proxy season mostly in the rearview mirror, several themes have emerged from the resolution of this year’s shareholder proposals. If 2024 was marked by rising pressure on companies from activist shareholders, 2025 has been mor...

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By Extending Compliance Deadlines, is the SEC ‘Deregulating by Delay?’

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Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission delayed the compliance date for a handful of regulations. It’s happened often enough lately that it could appear to some that the agency is engaging in “deregulation by delay.” For example, t...

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Five Ways White-Collar Enforcement Is Changing

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Since the transition to a new presidential administration in January, policies on trade and immigration have dominated the news. The administration’s approach to white-collar law enforcement isn’t generating the same buzz, but tangible and...

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Delaware Lawmakers Approve Polarizing Overhaul of Corporate Statute

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For a state small in population and size, Delaware has surprisingly many claims to fame. Known as “The First State” for ratifying the U.S. Constitution before the others in 1787, former President Joe Biden and his family have called Delawar...

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Impact of Trump’s Immigration Policies Loom Over Businesses

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If you were to rank the policy issues that have defined President Donald Trump’s political career, immigration would appear at the top of the list. Immediately after taking office for his second term, Trump showed what his hard line on immi...

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