Pomtalk

This is a blawg for pension funds, hedge funds and other institutional investors that provides timely commentary and analysis of developments in the fields of corporate governance, executive compensation, securities regulation and related areas.

Author: This blawg is presented by Pomerantz Haudek Block Grossman & Gross. Josh Silverman is of counsel; Jason S. Cowart, Fei-Lu Quan, Jim Hodgson, Carolyn Moskowitz and Susan Weiswasser are assoicates.

Blawg Related Categories: Corporate Law • Corporate Compliance • Securities Law • Associate

Recent Posts from PomTalk

Pay to Play
Recently, Risk Metrics revisited an article published earlier this year called Is 'Pay-to-Play' Driving Public Pension Fund Activism in Securities Class Actions? An Empirical Study, written by David H. Webber, the Wagner Fellow in Law…
OTC Bill Clears Another Hurdle
Following the House Financial Services Committee’s approval of its version of proposed legislation to reform regulation of the OTC derivatives market on October 16, 2009, the House Agriculture Committee unanimously approved its own version of…
From the Pages of The Pomerantz Monitor: SEC Brings First Clawback Action
The September/October issue of The Pomerantz Monitor reports on the first “clawback” action brought by the SEC for violation of Section 304 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Section 304 of SOX provides that if a company…
The Bumpy Road to Recovery
During a high-profile White House event Friday, Obama slammed the Chamber’s multi-million advertising campaign against the consumer agency, calling the group’s spots “completely false.” “We’ve made clear that only businesses that offer financial services would…
SEC Delays Implementation of Proxy Access Rules
SEC Chairwoman Mary Shapiro recently announced that the Commission's proposed changes to proxy access rules would not become final until sometime in 2010 – at the earliest. These rule changes, designed to give shareholders the…
Key Pieces of Legislation to Empower Investors
On October 1, 2009, Congressman Paul E. Kanjorski, Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises released discussion drafts of three pieces of legislation aimed at reforming needed…
From the Pages of The Pomerantz Monitor: Senator Specter Introduces Two Bills That Could Prove Very Important to Plaintiffs
As Susan Weiswasser reports in the current issue of The Pomerantz Monitor, two pieces of legislation recently introduced in the United States Senate, both sponsored by Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, could, if passed, prove very…
SEC Chairwoman Shapiro Outlines the Commission’s Multi-Pronged Approach to Sweeping Financial Market Reforms
In her speech earlier this month at the Transatlantic Corporate Governance Dialogue – 2009 Conference, SEC Chairwoman Mary Shapiro addressed a number of factors that precipitated the current financial crisis. For one thing, she identified…
Report Recommends Establishing Clear Link Between Pay and Performance
The Task Force on Executive Compensation convened by the Conference Board Governance Center to address the loss of public trust in the processes for oversight of executive compensation issued recommendations for corporations to restore credibility…
The SEC's Latest Blunder
The SEC alleged earlier this year that BofA had "materially lied" in shareholder communications prior to its takeover of Merrill Lynch, by failing to disclose bonuses owed to Merrill employees. So how does one properly…