Troutman Sanders LLP

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Troutman Sanders LLP, founded in 1897, is an international law firm with over 700 attorneys serving clients from offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Hong Kong, Irvine, London, New York, Newark, Norfolk, Raleigh, Richmond, San Diego, Portland, Shanghai, Tysons Corner, Virginia Beach and Washington, D.C. The full-service firm provides advice and counsel in over 50 legal practice areas and is committed to delivering professional service throughout all its locations.

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Bankruptcy, Commercial Development and Real Estate Investments, Commercial Leasing, Community Association Law, Compensation and Employee Benefits, Complex Litigation, Construction, Corporate and Securities, Energy, Environmental and Natural Resources, Financial Institutions, Governmental, Government Business Transactions, Healthcare, International, Labor and Employment, Lending and Structured Finance, Media and Entertainment, Multifamily Housing, Nuclear Regulation, Products Liability, Project Development and Finance, Public Finance, Real Estate Finance, Special Investigations, Tax, Technology and Intellectual Property, Technology and Intellectual Property Litigation, Telecommunications and E-Commerce, Tort Liability, Transportation, Trusts and Estates.

A World Without ISS?
W. Brinkley Dickerson,Eric A. Koontz,David I. Meyers,Vincent J. Pisano,Candice L. Priest, February 10, 2012
Bear with us for a minute . . . Imagine a scenario where every public company decides to follow the gospel of ISS - whole-hog, 100% of the way. They all elect independent chairmen, do away with poison pills, implement majority voting and proxy access, have only super-independent directors and even...

NYSE Narrows Broker Discretionary Voting
David M. Carter,W. Brinkley Dickerson,Eric A. Koontz,David I. Meyers,Vincent J. Pisano, February 6, 2012
On January 25, 2012, the NYSE announced changes to the application of Rule 452 to certain management-supported corporate governance proxy proposals. These changes, which are effective immediately, limit the discretionary authority of brokers to vote their customers’ shares without specific...

CFTC Finalizes Rules for Reporting Regimes and Recordkeeping
Brian C. Harms,John J. Leonti, January 3, 2012
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently voted, unanimously, to adopt final rules creating two new reporting regimes for the swap transactions and recordkeeping obligations of swap market participants. These final rules are applicable to all entities in the swaps market,...

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