Page 5 - Dissenting Statement News Today

On October 27, 2021, the FTC announced that it intends to publish (1) a final rule to amend the Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information (Safeguards Rule); (2) a supplemental...

On November 17, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC" or the "Commission") voted 3-2 to propose amendments to the rules governing proxy voting advice that were enacted last year.

On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued an "Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy." The Order responds to what the President characterizes as a "failed experiment"...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: M&A in the media industry is about to pick up. Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 2017 rollback of media ownership limits. Media companies that once avoided specific acquisitions due to regulatory ownership limits may now take a second look. But passing through FCC review is only part of the equation, with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) and many State A...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Split along partisan lines, the Federal Trade Commission (Commission) voted last week to issue Commentary on Vertical Merger Enforcement (Commentary). The Commentary intends to “provide[] greater transparency to the public regarding [the Commission’s] analysis of vertical mergers” by collecting in a single document the Commission’s past vertical merger cases and summarizing how it has analyzed potential anticompetitive effects...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. While 2020 will almost certainly not be remembered as the year in which cryptocurrency and digital assets made their long-promised arrival as a mainstay of financial transactions — overshadowed as they were by domestic politics and a global pandemic — the past 11 months marked another significant step in that ongoing journey. According to a recent Fidelity survey, 27% of institutional inv...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 14, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) issued extremely broad information and document production orders under Section 6(b) of the FTC Act (6(b) Orders) to nine social media and video streaming companies. The orders were issued following a 4-1 vote from the Commission, with a Joint Statement issued by Commissioners Chopra, Slaughter, and Wilson, as well as a highly critical Dissenting Statement from Com...