Gunster attorneys post regularly on a blog we call The Securities Edge, which focuses on securities and corporate governance issues of interest to middle-market business executives and their advisers.

We are proud to announce the launch of a new Securities Edge feature called Bob’s Upticks, authored by Gunster attorney and securities and corporate governance practice co-chair Bob Lamm.

Bob’s Upticks will offer timely news and comments on securities and corporate governance developments. The Securities Edge will continue to include deep analysis of some of the most important issues of the day.

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A note from Bob Lamm:

When I chaired the Securities Law Committee of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals, I circulated frequent updates to the Committee membership on a wide variety of developments in the worlds of securities law and corporate governance. My updates tended to be brief, and they often included my personal views, comments and insights (sometimes laced with a bit of skepticism or worse) on the developments in question. Committee members liked my postings, and I hope you do as well.

What follows is a link to my first post on Bob’s Upticks. Please let me know what you think!
~ Bob

SEC on Dodd-Frank rulemaking: How about ‘never’? Does ‘never’ work for you?

I have read several reports quoting Mary Joe White, chair of the Securities Exchange Commission, as saying that the remaining Dodd-Frank corporate governance rulemakings will be out by year end.

Dodd-Frank was enacted in 2010. To date, none of the four rules – aka Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (by issuers) and Gang of Four (by SEC staff) – has been adopted. And three of them have yet to be proposed.

There are all sorts of reasons why the SEC might want these rules – particularly the pay-ratio rule – to go away; they’ve fed the fires of increased politicization at the SEC and have also fueled some angry speeches by one or two commissioners.

Perhaps some at the SEC are hoping that if the Republicans take the Senate in a few weeks, the applicable provisions of Dodd-Frank – or maybe the whole Act – will be repealed.

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