Just last month, Stewart Landefeld ran a popular blog with practice pointers about directors and their personal devices.

Early uses of the universal proxy card have led to one interesting development – new Corp Fin guidance regarding broker voting instruction forms (VIFs). VIFs are the way in which shareholders who hold their shares through a bank, broker or other intermediary instruct that intermediary how to complete the company's proxy card for their shares.

Here's a tip from the sixth edition of our popular publication The Public Company Handbook, which is an easy-to-read guide that provides practical insights regarding legal and other board management issues facing public—or soon-to-be-public—companies.

Recently, I was talking to Ben Dale about what constituted best practices as it pertained to a particularly tricky topic in the securities laws. It led me to pause and think, "What are best practices anyway?"

In this blog feature, our in-house readers share tips, anecdotes, and thoughts about topics that arise in their daily practice.

The folks in our "Emerging Companies & Venture Capital Law" group have been doing an amazing job the past few days providing constant updates on all the developments related to Silicon Valley Bank via our

Last week, the DOJ unsealed an indictment against the CEO of a publicly traded healthcare company (the Executive) relating to charges of an insider trading scheme.

When a new insider is required to make Section 16 filings, that insider will need to obtain Edgar codes to allow for electronic filing with the SEC. Typically, the corporate secretary (and/or paralegal if a company has one) will assist the insider with this process, which involves initially filing a Form ID application.

Here's an excerpt from this "White Collar Briefly" blog about this recent speech

Following up on my long-running series of e-signature blogs, for some reason, this topic always fascinates me: "How do companies – in practice – retain all those signatures for SEC filings?

Last October, the SEC adopted final rules directing the NYSE and Nasdaq to adopt listing standards requiring companies to have clawback policies that provide for the recovery, in the event of a required accounting restatement, of certain incentive-based compensation received by current or former executive officers based on erroneously reported financial information.

In this blog feature, our in-house readers share tips, anecdotes, and thoughts about topics that arise in their daily practice. This particular batch of thoughts is about disclosure controls, particularly in the context of the climate and cybersecurity disclosure rules that could be coming soon from the SEC:

With the April 13th deadline for mandatory Edgar filing for all Form 144s looming just ahead, the SEC amended Regulation S-T last week to expand the daily window for filing Forms 144 so that the "end of the day" deadline will be 10:00 p.m.

During our recent webcast - "Proxy Season Roundtable: What You Need to Know Now" - Proxy Analytics' Steve Pantina talked about SEC's updated rules regarding Form N-PX changes and some of the practical implications they may have (see

A few days ago, the SEC adopted new rules related to the settlement of securities transactions. Specifically, the new rules call for a shorter T+1 settlement cycle. The rules become effective 60 days following publication in the Federal Register and the compliance date is May 28, 2024.