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Return to Sender: The DOJ Withdraws a Decades-Old Letter to a Proxy Advisor

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For nearly four decades, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) held a piece of paper most public companies would envy: a 1987 business review letter from the U.S. Department of Justice saying the government had no plans to challenge its...

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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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Data Centers Generate AI—and Risk—for Issuers

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Everybody wants the AI, nobody wants the data center. That may be an oversimplification, but if you read enough securities filings (as we love to) or litigation dockets, you start to realize it’s only a slight one. The opposition to data ce...

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Companies Take Three Approaches to Tariff-Refund Disclosures

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The Supreme Court decision nixing tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) created an immediate question: who gets the money back? The Court stayed away from that thorny issue, and later rulings from the...

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Five Takeaways from the SEC’s Revised Enforcement Manual

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The SEC doesn’t update its Enforcement Manual very often. So, when it does, people notice––securities lawyers in particular. That has certainly been the case with the agency’s just-released update, its first since 2017. Even so, it’s worth...

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