Corporate and Securities Law  

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EDGAR filings, the SEC News Digest, SEC Decisions, Releases, proposed rules, and policy studies by SEC staff.

Since 1995 the Corporate Governance site has provided news, internet links, a reference library, and has served as a discussion forum and network for the movement to enhance wealth through increased accountability by creating more democratic forms of corporate governance and corporate monitoring

Evaluate the strengths, deficiencies and risks of a company's corporate governance practices and board of directors

Vote recommendations for 33,000 stocks and mutual funds annually. ISS has developed industry-leading "best practice" approaches to assessing the impact of proxy proposals on shareholder value for complex issues such as executive and director compensation, options expensing, and contested solicitations.

Since 1988, ISS's Securities Class Action Services (SCAS) has tracked class action suits, state and SEC settlements. This proprietary comprehensive database includes up-to-date information and over 10 years of historical class action data, including class periods, settlement dates, status reports, and award amounts.

A monthly report, covering topics including: annual meetings of shareholders, application of the business judgment rule, audit committees, boards of directors, compensation committees, directory indemnification, executive compensation, directors' fiduciary duties, insider trading, piercing the corporate veil, poison pills, and minority shareholder rights.

A weekly report covering regulatory, legal and legislative developments affecting the regulation of securities and commodities at the federal and state level. It reports the activities of Congress, the Administration the SEC, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, FASB, and the professional associations regulation accounting practices in the securities and commodities industries. 20-year backfile on Lexis and Westlaw.

Full text of complaints, motions, judicial opinions, and other major class action filings. Includes many filinigs not available from PACER or other services.

Information on all poison pill shareholder rights plans and amendments to those plans adopted since the invention of this defensive tactic.