Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights August 1, 2011 Client Update Reading the Tea Leaves on SEC Rulemaking Schedule The SEC website contains a schedule of Dodd-Frank rulemaking, which has been helpful but at times confusing when the sched... July 28, 2011 Client Update Spotlight on Shareholder Proposals: Independent Chairs - July 2011 As of July 2010, 43% of S&P 500 companies have separate CEO and chairman positions, but only about half of those companies... July 25, 2011 Client Update Proxy Access Strikedown Could Impact Other Dodd Frank Rulemaking Across Many Agencies The DC Circuit’s vacating of the SEC’s proxy access rule has wider applications for the possible challenge of regulati... July 22, 2011 Client Update D.C. Circuit Vacates SEC Proxy Access Rule The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today vacated Exchange Act Rule 14a-11, which would have required U.S. public companies ... July 19, 2011 Client Update Spotlight on Shareholder Proposals: Special Meetings As a result of targeted activism in the last few years, more than half of the S&P 500 companies now allow shareholders to ... July 11, 2011 Client Update SEC Staff Issues Interpretations on Proxy Disclosure As is their customary timing, on Friday afternoon the SEC issued several updated CD&I interpretations of particular intere... July 8, 2011 Client Update Updated Say-on-Pay Scorecard: Reprise With the vast majority of this year’s annual shareholder meetings for U.S. public companies behind us (at least for thos... July 7, 2011 Client Update Spotlight on Shareholder Proposals: Majority Voting Proposals to elect directors by a majority vote fared well this season, averaging 56.6% at 31 companies as of early June. ... June 27, 2011 Client Update Spotlight on Shareholder Proposals: Declassification - June 2011 This is the first of a series of posts to discuss key shareholder proposals during proxy season 2011. While ISS reports... June 24, 2011 Client Update Perceived Pay-for-Performance Disconnect Brings Say-on-Pay Shareholder Derivative Suits Some shareholders are using lawsuits as a new tactic to fight what they perceive as an escalation in executive compensatio... Load More
August 1, 2011 Client Update Reading the Tea Leaves on SEC Rulemaking Schedule The SEC website contains a schedule of Dodd-Frank rulemaking, which has been helpful but at times confusing when the sched...
July 28, 2011 Client Update Spotlight on Shareholder Proposals: Independent Chairs - July 2011 As of July 2010, 43% of S&P 500 companies have separate CEO and chairman positions, but only about half of those companies...
July 25, 2011 Client Update Proxy Access Strikedown Could Impact Other Dodd Frank Rulemaking Across Many Agencies The DC Circuit’s vacating of the SEC’s proxy access rule has wider applications for the possible challenge of regulati...
July 22, 2011 Client Update D.C. Circuit Vacates SEC Proxy Access Rule The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today vacated Exchange Act Rule 14a-11, which would have required U.S. public companies ...
July 19, 2011 Client Update Spotlight on Shareholder Proposals: Special Meetings As a result of targeted activism in the last few years, more than half of the S&P 500 companies now allow shareholders to ...
July 11, 2011 Client Update SEC Staff Issues Interpretations on Proxy Disclosure As is their customary timing, on Friday afternoon the SEC issued several updated CD&I interpretations of particular intere...
July 8, 2011 Client Update Updated Say-on-Pay Scorecard: Reprise With the vast majority of this year’s annual shareholder meetings for U.S. public companies behind us (at least for thos...
July 7, 2011 Client Update Spotlight on Shareholder Proposals: Majority Voting Proposals to elect directors by a majority vote fared well this season, averaging 56.6% at 31 companies as of early June. ...
June 27, 2011 Client Update Spotlight on Shareholder Proposals: Declassification - June 2011 This is the first of a series of posts to discuss key shareholder proposals during proxy season 2011. While ISS reports...
June 24, 2011 Client Update Perceived Pay-for-Performance Disconnect Brings Say-on-Pay Shareholder Derivative Suits Some shareholders are using lawsuits as a new tactic to fight what they perceive as an escalation in executive compensatio...