Courtney Cochran Butler
Associate
Courtney’s practice includes general corporate and securities issues, as well as representing issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings and other public and private equity and debt offerings.
Publications
- Recent Ruling Allows a Shareholder Lawsuit to Proceed After a Negative Say-on-Pay Vote: Quirk or Harbinger? (October 6, 2011)
- DC Circuit’s Proxy Access Decision to Stand, but SEC to Allow “Private Ordering” of Proxy Access (September 20, 2011)
- Oil and Gas Companies Should Expect Increased SEC Scrutiny of Operations and Reserves (September 6, 2011)
- SEC Replaces Credit Ratings with New Wide Market Following Test for Shelf Registration Statement Eligibility (September 1, 2011)
- PCAOB Floats Possibility of Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation Financial Fraud Report (January 2012) (August 31, 2011)
- DC Circuit Panel Vacates Proxy Access Rule (July 28, 2011)
- PCAOB Considers Changes to Standards for Auditors’ Reports on Audited Financial Statements Financial Fraud Report (November/December 2011) (July 6, 2011)
- SEC Proposes Rules for Compensation Committees and Compensation Advisers (April 21, 2011)
- SEC Proposes Rules to Implement the Dodd-Frank Act’s Mine Safety Disclosure Requirements (January 25, 2011)
- SEC Proposes Disclosure Rules for Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers (January 13, 2011)
- SEC Issues Interpretive Guidance Regarding Liquidity and Capital Resources Disclosures (October 20, 2010)
- SEC Proposes Enhanced Short-Term Borrowing Disclosure Rules (October 20, 2010)
- SEC Approves Proposal Regarding Enhanced Proxy Disclosure (December 17, 2009)
- "Gambling on Seaman Status: The Plight of Riverboat Casino Employees in Light of Amended State Gaming Statutes" Tulane Maritime Law Journal, Volume 29:1
- "Otto Candies, L.L.C. v. Nippon Kaiji Kyojai Corp.: Further Extending Negligent Misrepresentation to Protect Third-Party Buyers that Rely on Erroneous Certificates Issued by Vessel Classification Societies" Tulane Maritime Law Journal, Volume 28:2
