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Katten is a full-service law firm with more than 600 attorneys in locations across the United States and an affiliate in London. We strive to be a firm of first choice for clients seeking sophisticated, high-value legal services nationally and globally. While Katten offers an extensive range of legal services across numerous industries, our core areas of practice include corporate, financial services, litigation, real estate, commercial finance, intellectual property and trusts and estates. Among our clients are a wide range of public and private companies, including a third of the Fortune 100, as well as a number of government and nonprofit organizations and individuals.

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On September 23, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to adopt amendments to the rules governing the process for the submission of shareholder proposals to be included in a registrant’s proxy statement. Rule 14a-8 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) requires registrants holding a shareholder meeting that is subject to the Exchange Act proxy rules to include in their proxy statement proposals submitted by shareholders, so long as the applicable procedural and…
On September 21, the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a new Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation (C&DI) regarding the treatment of benefits provided to executive officers in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and whether such benefits constitute perquisites or personal benefits that must be disclosed in a registrant’s summary compensation table and included when determining the registrant’s three most highly compensated officers (other than the registrant’s principal executive officer and…
In response to CFTC Letter No. 20-28, the Joint Audit Committee (JAC) has issued Regulatory Alert #20-02 and Regulatory Alert #20-03. As reported in the September 18 edition of Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest, CFTC Letter No. 20-28 provided supplemental guidance and no-action relief with respect to CFTC Regulation 1.56 (prohibition of guarantees against loss) compliance and further no-action relief with respect to the treatment of separate accounts by futures commission merchants (FCMs),…
National Futures Association (NFA) recently redesigned its Annual Questionnaire, which applicants are required to submit with their NFA membership applications and current members are required to file annually. On September 29, at 9:30 a.m. CT/10:30 a.m. ET, NFA will host a webinar to address the transition to the new Annual Questionnaire. Among other changes, the updated Annual Questionnaire:…
On September 16, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted amendments to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) Rule 15c2-11 to modernize the rule, including by recognizing advances in communications technology. The rule requires broker-dealers to review key, basic issuer information before initiating or resuming quotations for the issuer’s security in the over-the-counter (OTC) market.…