Kyoko Takahashi Lin

Buried in a defense spending bill that clocks in at over 2,000 pages is an amendment to Section 16 of the Exchange Act that would extend its application to foreign private issuers, adding...

As the RECOUP Act advances through Congress, there should be a deeper look at the removal and corporate governance provisions, which have been largely ignored by the business press. These...

The NYSE and Nasdaq have amended their proposed listing standards relating to clawbacks to provide that October 2, 2023 will be the effective date, which means that listed companies will ...

The SEC extended the deadline for the effective date of the NYSE and Nasdaq listing standards on the clawback rule mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act to at least June 2023.

On February 22, 2023, the NYSE and Nasdaq released their respective versions of a proposed rule that implements the SEC’s clawback rule mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act. Both versions hew...

On February 10, 2023, the SEC Staff issued a set of Compliance & Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs) regarding the “pay versus performance” (PvP) disclosure rule, which covers a variet...

The Treasury Department advised Congress last week that the government is expected to reach its debt limit on January 19. After that, Treasury will be required to take “extraordinary me...

Davis Polk partners Kyoko Takahashi Lin and Travis Triano authored “Preparing for pay versus performance disclosure” in Practical Law. The article discusses the “pay versus performa...

In a significant and welcome change from the SEC’s proposal, the agency will not mandate cooling-off periods for 10b5-1 plans used for corporate stock buybacks. For plan use by director...

Our 2022 IPO corporate governance survey reviews governance structures at the time of the IPO for the largest U.S.-listed IPOs of “controlled” and non-“controlled” companies betwe...