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This is the first of a series of three blogs about board minutes. Keeping accurate, concise minutes of the meetings of your board and board committees is one of the more important responsibilities of a corporate secretary.

Last December, the SEC proposed rules that would alter how some Rule 10b5-1 plans work, including requiring a 120-day cooling-off period for officers and directors, and a ban on overlapping plans.

We have partnered with DFin to bring you a complimentary webcast—"Top 15 Proxy Disclosure Areas To Focus on This Season"—to be held on Thursday, November 3rd, from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET.

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.

In April, Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter noted in a speech that the DOJ's enforcement of Section 8 of the Clayton Act (which prohibits interlocking directorates) would not be limited to its merger review process and that the DOJ

I can still vividly remember attending my first "SEC Speaks" conference back in the late 1980s, when I worked in Corp Fin. It's amazing that it's still around and it's useful to hear the latest from the current SEC Commissioners and Staff.

Why focus on pay equity now?

As noted in this Update penned by Jamie Schafer and Gina LaMonica, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco

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Last week, the SEC announced that Corp Fin will increase the number of its industry offices to nine by adding two new offices later this year: the Office of Crypto Assets and the Office of Industrial Applications and Services.

Last week, the SEC announced that it had adopted the inflation adjustments for some of its JOBS Act rules as mandated by that Act. The JOBS Act requires the SEC to make inflation adjustments to those rules at least once every five years, which it last did in April 2017.

Following up on my series of blogs about subsidiaries, here's something that can be a real sticking point for a subsidiary's officers and directors – but if you don't get a handle on it, it can be quite messy for you.

During our recent webcast - "Proxy Season Post-Mortem – 20 Things" - at the 13:30 mark, Proxy Analytics' Steve Pantina notes these developments during his discussion about negotiating shareholder proposals:

Join Allison Handy and Broc Romanek, among others, for a complimentary webcast hosted by Toppan Merrill on Wednesday, September 21st (from 1:00 - 2:00 pm) — "The Pace of SEC Rulemaking is on Fire" — as the panel covers a dozen recent SEC rulemakings that you need to know about n