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Today the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a concept release to seek public input on the reform of the proxy solicitation and voting system in the U.S. As noted by Chairman Mary Schapiro and Meredith Cross, Director of the Division of Corporation Finance, the U.S. proxy system governs the voting of over 600 billion shares at over 14,000 shareholder meetings each year, yet it has not undergone a substantial review in almost thirty years.

Last week, the Department of Justice announced its latest installment of expanded policies meant to provide more transparency in how the Criminal Division will evaluate corporate compliance

On January 25, 2011, by a 3-2 vote, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") adopted new rules giving effect to Section 951 of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 ("Dodd-Frank").

With a flourish of his pen on the 21st of July 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama signed and brought on to the U.S. statute books the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Financial Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Reform Act").

Recently the bankruptcy court overseeing the Lehman Brothers chapter 11 cases held that a bank cannot apply post-petition deposits by a bankruptcy debtor to the debtor’s prepetition obligations under a derivatives contract.

The Indonesian Capital Markets and Financial Institutions Supervisory Agency ("Bapepam-LK") issued new regulations on Material Transactions ("Material Transactions Rules") on 25 November 2009 and on Affiliated Transactions and Conflict of Interest (the "COI Rules") on 29 November 2009.

On July 20, 2010, the Indonesian Government released the long-awaited implementing regulation (the "New Regulation") regarding merger notification in Indonesia, pursuant to the relevant provisions of the Indonesian anti-monopoly law, Law No. 5 of 1999 (the "Anti-Monopoly Law").

On June 29, 2010, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") announced a settlement with California-based telecommunications company Veraz Networks, Inc. ("Veraz") in which Veraz agreed to pay a $300,000 penalty for alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") related to government-controlled telecommunications companies in China and Vietnam.

Lexmark, a maker of printer toner cartridges, owns multiple patents that cover components of those cartridges.

On August 29, 2019, the US Environmental Protection Agency (the "EPA") proposed two options to rescind federal emission limits for methane set forth in the 2012 and 2016 New Source Performance Standards

California appears poised to enact legislation that would dramatically increase the regulatory burden facing firms in the electronic payment and stored value industries.

In January 2019, the Hong Kong Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry, a trade group made up of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, asked the Hong Kong Competition Commission

O'Melveny partner Jonathan Rosenberg, counsel Bill Martin, and associate Alec Schierenbeck co-authored this New York Law Journal article, which considers the US Supreme Court's

On January 10, 2020, the Council on Environmental Quality (the "CEQ") published a proposed rule that would significantly revise ...

The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled that proposed investments in life settlements by a single purchaser (as opposed to investors in a pooled transaction) are not securities for purposes of SEC Rule 10b-5’s prohibition against manipulative or deceptive practices.

Earlier this year, Chinese Central Bank Gov. Zhou Xiaochuan created a stir by suggesting that there needed to be an alternative to the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency and that the International Monetary Fund special drawing rights be considered for this role.

On April 26, 2010, in a 6-5 decision, an en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit affirmed in large part a district court’s certification of an employment discrimination class action involving claims for declaratory and injunctive relief, back pay, and punitive damages asserted on behalf of a class of about 1.5 million people, "encompassing all women employed by Wal-Mart at any time after December 26, 1998."