Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights April 25, 2012 Client Update Annual Meetings Face Protests from the "99 Percent" The Occupy Wall Street Movement has turned its focus on annual meetings, which one media outlet is calling “a rare publi... April 16, 2012 Client Update Glass Lewis Makes an Attempt at Transparency, and Studies Try to Evaluate Proxy Advisory Services' Influence Glass Lewis released a brief overview that it calls a “Primer for Issuers.” Glass Lewis reiterates that it does not en... April 5, 2012 Client Update JOBS Act Becomes Law: Reduced Compensation Disclosure for Many IPO Companies and Exchange Act Relief for Private Companies with Significant Equity Compensation Today President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”), which was passed by the House o... March 30, 2012 Client Update U.S. Supreme Court Holds that the Statute of Limitations for Section 16(b) Short-Swing Liability Claims Is Not Tolled On March 26, 2012, in Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC v. Simmonds, the U.S. Supreme Court held 8 0 that not filing a Se... March 29, 2012 Client Update NYSE Webcast Panel Reflects on the 2012 Proxy Season On Tuesday, I was fortunate to co-moderate a NYSE-sponsored webcast with Judy McLevey at the NYSE, as we discussed the lea... March 12, 2012 Client Update GRId Information to Change When Proxy Filed A number of companies have been unhappy to discover that ISS’ recent adoption and resulting move to GRId 2.0 changed “... March 9, 2012 Client Update SEC Staff Permits Exclusion of "Retail" Version of Proxy Access Proposals on Two Grounds The SEC Staff has agreed that several companies can exclude their proxy access shareholder proposals that were modeled on ... March 6, 2012 Client Update SEC Decides on Questions of Proof of Ownership Regarding DTC Participants for Shareholder Proposals The SEC Staff made several recent decisions on questions of proof of ownership for submission of shareholder proposals, in... March 5, 2012 Client Update Implementation of New Disclosure on Say on Pay Results Among the new proxy disclosure requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act is the mandate that issuers disclose in their CD&A ... February 20, 2012 Client Update Now Available: Company Verification of its GRId 2.0 Profile Today, February 20, ISS has posted a preview of its updated GRId 2.0 data profiles for U.S. companies. Company representa... Load More
April 25, 2012 Client Update Annual Meetings Face Protests from the "99 Percent" The Occupy Wall Street Movement has turned its focus on annual meetings, which one media outlet is calling “a rare publi...
April 16, 2012 Client Update Glass Lewis Makes an Attempt at Transparency, and Studies Try to Evaluate Proxy Advisory Services' Influence Glass Lewis released a brief overview that it calls a “Primer for Issuers.” Glass Lewis reiterates that it does not en...
April 5, 2012 Client Update JOBS Act Becomes Law: Reduced Compensation Disclosure for Many IPO Companies and Exchange Act Relief for Private Companies with Significant Equity Compensation Today President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”), which was passed by the House o...
March 30, 2012 Client Update U.S. Supreme Court Holds that the Statute of Limitations for Section 16(b) Short-Swing Liability Claims Is Not Tolled On March 26, 2012, in Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC v. Simmonds, the U.S. Supreme Court held 8 0 that not filing a Se...
March 29, 2012 Client Update NYSE Webcast Panel Reflects on the 2012 Proxy Season On Tuesday, I was fortunate to co-moderate a NYSE-sponsored webcast with Judy McLevey at the NYSE, as we discussed the lea...
March 12, 2012 Client Update GRId Information to Change When Proxy Filed A number of companies have been unhappy to discover that ISS’ recent adoption and resulting move to GRId 2.0 changed “...
March 9, 2012 Client Update SEC Staff Permits Exclusion of "Retail" Version of Proxy Access Proposals on Two Grounds The SEC Staff has agreed that several companies can exclude their proxy access shareholder proposals that were modeled on ...
March 6, 2012 Client Update SEC Decides on Questions of Proof of Ownership Regarding DTC Participants for Shareholder Proposals The SEC Staff made several recent decisions on questions of proof of ownership for submission of shareholder proposals, in...
March 5, 2012 Client Update Implementation of New Disclosure on Say on Pay Results Among the new proxy disclosure requirements under the Dodd-Frank Act is the mandate that issuers disclose in their CD&A ...
February 20, 2012 Client Update Now Available: Company Verification of its GRId 2.0 Profile Today, February 20, ISS has posted a preview of its updated GRId 2.0 data profiles for U.S. companies. Company representa...