Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

Kilpatrick Stockton LLP is a full-service international law firm with more than 500 attorneys in nine offices across the globe: Atlanta and Augusta, GA; Charlotte, Raleigh and Winston-Salem, NC; New York, NY; Washington, DC; Stockholm, Sweden and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Kilpatrick Stockton's delivery of innovative business solutions provides results-oriented counsel for corporations, from the challenging demands of financial transactions and securities to the disciplines of intellectual property management. Collaboration among Kilpatrick Stockton's corporate, tax, employment and employee benefit attorneys provides knowledgeable and proactive guidance for companies at every stage of the business life cycle.

SEC Proposes Amendments to Notice and Access Proxy Rules
October 27, 2009
On October 14, 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed amendments to its notice and access proxy rules designed to improve the model for furnishing proxy materials to shareholders electronically (also known as "e-proxy").

GINA Interim Final Regulations - Wellness and Disease Management Programs Impacted
October 22, 2009
Title I of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 ("GINA") generally prohibits group health plans, health insurance issuers in the group and individual markets and issuers of Medicare supplemental policies from using genetic information to discriminate and from collecting...

HHS GINA Proposed Regulations - HIPAA Covered Entities Impacted
October 22, 2009
Section 105 of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 ("GINA") provides that a group health plan or health insurer may not use or disclose genetic information for purposes of underwriting. These provisions became effective on May 20, 2009. (For background on this issue,...