"Cherry picking" and boilerplate reporting are in the SEC's crosshairs.
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On April 28, 2016 the Toronto Stock Exchange (the "TSX") published a set of proposed amendments to the TSX Company Manual (the "Manual"), which are available for public comment until May 28, 2016.
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Effective today, significant amendments to the Canadian early warning reporting (EWR) regime (EWR Amendments) come into force (see our March 3, 2016 publication, Canada's Early Warning Rules Get Tougher in May). Here we focus on the new, more stringent requirements to describe the purpose of acquisitions.
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A practical guide to the issues surrounding acquisitions of public companies in Canada.
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The United States is behind the technology curve when it comes to publicly traded companies' financial disclosures and lagging in how it gets relevant information to investors, a top securities regulator said on Friday.
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In his annual letter to National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) members, CEO Ken Daly put shareholder activism second on his director watch list for 2016. "Activists aren't practicing black magic," he wrote, "they are performing effective due diligence and smart analytics on their holdings. Boards need to think like activists and anticipate the issues these investors may raise."
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Activist and passive investors make unlikely bed-fellows but there is reason to think they work well together.
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Since Dodd-Frank, shareholder outreach has stepped up exponentially. Over the past few years I have facilitated numerous dialogues with my clients, shareholders and proxy advisors.
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Washington’s anti-Wall Street reformers are turning their gaze toward a fixture of the American economy for much of the past three decades: the activist investor.
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