The Proxy Adviser Strikes Back
It’s one of the defining conflicts in corporate governance today: the attempt to constrain the behavior of public companies by non-governmental “s...
OMB Power Play Could Sideline SEC
The Trump administration is trimming back federal agencies’ rulemaking authority in a move that could curtail the power of the Securities and Exchan...
Tobacco, Alcohol Companies Going to Pot
With the counterculture revolution in full swing, public support for legalizing marijuana in the United States hovered around a measly 10 percent of A...
SEC All About Main Street in 2019
You can rarely go wrong in politics by promising to look out for average Americans. It’s a time-honored lesson that Securities and Exchange Commissi...
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...
Investor Backlash Threatens Six-Month Reporting Proposal
Before much of the country had eaten breakfast on Friday, the president had questioned decades of regulatory practice, remade the SEC’s near-term ag...