Weekly Roundup: December 8-14, 2023

Weekly Roundup
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This roundup contains a collection of the posts published on the Forum during the week of December 7-13, 2023

Remarks by Chair Gensler Before the American Bar Association

Posted by Gary Gensler, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, on Friday, December 8, 2023

Tags: Beneficial Ownership, Executive Compensation, Insider trading, Proxy voting, SEC

SEC reports Enforcement stats for fiscal 2023 —with big contributions from whistleblowers

Posted by Cydney S. Posner, Cooley LLP, on Saturday, December 9, 2023

Tags: SEC, SEC enforcement, Securities fraud, Whistleblowers

Reporting Beneficial Owners Under the Corporate Transparency Act

Posted by Robert Appleton, Jason Saltsberg, and Brian Roe, Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP, on Sunday, December 10, 2023

Tags: Beneficial Ownership, Corporate Transparency Act, FinCEN, registrant information, US Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)

Incentivizing What Matters 2.0: A Cross-Continental Review of Sustainability-Linked Executive Incentives

Posted by Subodh Mishra, ISS STOXX, on Monday, December 11, 2023

Tags: ESG, ESG disclosure, executive pay, Sustainability

The Cost of Private Fund Regulation

Posted by Ben Bates (Harvard Law School), on Monday, December 11, 2023

Tags: AUM, Dodd-Frank Act, Hedge funds, SEC

The Social Cost of Investor Distraction: Evidence from Institutional Cross-Blockholding

Posted by Vivek Astvansh (McGill University), Tao Chen and Jimmy Chengyuan Qu (Nanyang Business School, Singapore), on Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Tags: Corporate Social Responsibility, Cross-blockholding, Investor Distraction, Ownership structure, Social Cost

Post-Doctoral Corporate Governance Fellowships For Finance, Economics, and Accounting Researchers

Posted by Anna Restuccia, on Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Tags: Hiring

Delaware Law Requires Directors to Manage the Corporation for the Benefit of its Stockholders and the Absurdity of Denying It

Posted by Robert T. Miller (University of Iowa), on Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Tags: delaware, fiduciary duty, Revlon, Shareholder primacy, Stakeholders

2023 Equity Proposal Trends in the U.S. and Canada

Posted by Maria Vu, Lisa-Marie O’Malley, Brandon Pak, Glass, Lewis & Co., on Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Tags: Canada, Executive Compensation, executive pay, pay equity, u.s.

Profiting from Pollution

Posted by Nathan Atkinson (University of Wisconsin), on Thursday, December 14, 2023

Tags: Clean Air Act, compliance, corporate misconduct, economic benefit, Environment

Statement by Chair Gensler on PCAOB 2024 Budget

Posted by Gary Gensler, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, on Thursday, December 14, 2023

Tags: 2024, PCAOB, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Sarbanes–Oxley Act, SEC