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Recently, Twitter announced that it would take questions for its February 5th earnings call – the first since its IPO – via Twitter. This is not quite new ground as Zillow did it last year – but no company has done it since Zillow. To learn more about what Zillow did, check out the transcript from last year’s “Social Media: Parsing the Hypos” webcast that included a lawyer from the company…

Check out my “Proxy Season Blog” for info about more updated ISS & Glass Lewis policies…

JOBS Act Correction Passes the House: Savings & Loans Focused

As noted in this MoFo blog, the House passed H.R. 801, the Holding Company Registration Threshold Equalization Act of 2013, sponsored by Rep. Womack, by a vote of 417 to 7. The bill corrects a technical error in the JOBS Act, which raised the shareholder threshold for Exchange Act registration for banks and bank holding companies but not for savings and loan holding companies. The bill puts SLHCs on par with bank holding companies by increasing the shareholder registration threshold for SLHCs from 500 to 2,000, and the deregistration threshold from 300 to 1,200.

More on “The Mentor Blog”

I continue to post new items daily on our blog – “The Mentor Blog” – for TheCorporateCounsel.net members. Members can sign up to get that blog pushed out to them via email whenever there is a new entry by simply inputting their email address on the left side of that blog. Here are some of the latest entries:

– Report: Fortunate Executive Stock Sales & Earnings Guidance
– The Equity Facade Of SEC Disgorgement
– Comparison: Director & Investor Viewpoints
– Report: More Audit Committee Transparency Encouraged
– DOL’s Electronic Delivery Guidance: Struggling to Go Forward

– Broc Romanek