Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)

Regulatory & Compliance

Robert Todd Lang | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Editor: Todd, tell our readers about your background. Lang: I received both my bachelor and law degrees at Yale. I've been with Weil, Gotshal & Manges since graduating from law school, and for many years co-managed the firm and headed its corporate, securities and M&A practice. I...

Regulatory & Compliance

J. Kenneth Menges, Jr. | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Editor: Please describe the DC Circuit's decision to vacate SEC Rule 14a-11, the Proxy Access Rule. What are some of its critical elements? Menges:Commonly known as the Proxy Access Rule, 14a-11 was adopted by the SEC after authorization by the Congress in the Dodd-Frank bill to facilitate...

Private Equity

Barry Barbash, Phillip Isom, Stephen O'Connor | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Many venturecapital and private equity fund managers eagerly anticipated the recent adoption by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") of Rule 203(l)-11(the "Rule") under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the "Advisers Act") defining the term "...