Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights July 7, 2009 Client Update General Counsel Update - July 2009 Companies faced with a shareholder proposal submitted under Rule 14a-8 often seek to exclude the proposal from the proxy s... July 1, 2009 Client Update SEC Eliminates Broker Discretionary Vote for Director Elections in 2010, Proposes "Better" Proxy Disclosures and Codifies TARP Recipients "Say on Pay" The SEC voted today (3-2) to eliminate broker discretionary voting in director elections for meetings held on or after Jan... June 18, 2009 Client Update SEC Publishes Proxy Access Proposal The SEC’s proposed proxy access rules were released on June 10. Comments are due by August 17. The SEC’s apparent goal... June 11, 2009 Client Update Obama Administration to Push for Legislation Mandating Say on Pay and Additional Independence Standards for Compensation Committee For All U.S. Public Companies Yesterday, various agencies of the Federal government announced or released pronouncements and guidance affecting executiv... May 27, 2009 Client Update Senator Schumer Proposes Key Governance Changes for U.S. Public Companies Senator Charles Schumer recently introduced a bill, The Shareholder Bill of Rights Act of 2009, which if adopted would imp... May 20, 2009 Client Update SEC Proposes Rule to Allow 1% Shareholders (or a Group of Shareholders holding 1%) to Nominate Directors at Large Companies In response to a public outcry over compensation and other practices and a call for accountability in the current financia... May 1, 2009 Articles & Books Disclosure and Approval of Related Person Transactions: Examining the Revised Regulations In August 2006, the SEC published its final release to completely overhaul the rules and regulations for executive compens... April 21, 2009 Client Update General Counsel Update - April 2009 It’s proxy time, and business reporters are riding their favorite seasonal hobby horse: executive compensation. This yea... April 7, 2009 Client Update Current Congressional Efforts to Restrict Compensation of TARP Participants On March 14, 2009, news media reported that American International Group, which had received more than $170 billion in gov... March 27, 2009 Client Update Delaware Supreme Court Reverses Lyondell; Supports Board Discretion in Sale Process In a much anticipated decision on Wednesday, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed the Chancery Court in Lyondell v. Ryan, r... Load More
July 7, 2009 Client Update General Counsel Update - July 2009 Companies faced with a shareholder proposal submitted under Rule 14a-8 often seek to exclude the proposal from the proxy s...
July 1, 2009 Client Update SEC Eliminates Broker Discretionary Vote for Director Elections in 2010, Proposes "Better" Proxy Disclosures and Codifies TARP Recipients "Say on Pay" The SEC voted today (3-2) to eliminate broker discretionary voting in director elections for meetings held on or after Jan...
June 18, 2009 Client Update SEC Publishes Proxy Access Proposal The SEC’s proposed proxy access rules were released on June 10. Comments are due by August 17. The SEC’s apparent goal...
June 11, 2009 Client Update Obama Administration to Push for Legislation Mandating Say on Pay and Additional Independence Standards for Compensation Committee For All U.S. Public Companies Yesterday, various agencies of the Federal government announced or released pronouncements and guidance affecting executiv...
May 27, 2009 Client Update Senator Schumer Proposes Key Governance Changes for U.S. Public Companies Senator Charles Schumer recently introduced a bill, The Shareholder Bill of Rights Act of 2009, which if adopted would imp...
May 20, 2009 Client Update SEC Proposes Rule to Allow 1% Shareholders (or a Group of Shareholders holding 1%) to Nominate Directors at Large Companies In response to a public outcry over compensation and other practices and a call for accountability in the current financia...
May 1, 2009 Articles & Books Disclosure and Approval of Related Person Transactions: Examining the Revised Regulations In August 2006, the SEC published its final release to completely overhaul the rules and regulations for executive compens...
April 21, 2009 Client Update General Counsel Update - April 2009 It’s proxy time, and business reporters are riding their favorite seasonal hobby horse: executive compensation. This yea...
April 7, 2009 Client Update Current Congressional Efforts to Restrict Compensation of TARP Participants On March 14, 2009, news media reported that American International Group, which had received more than $170 billion in gov...
March 27, 2009 Client Update Delaware Supreme Court Reverses Lyondell; Supports Board Discretion in Sale Process In a much anticipated decision on Wednesday, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed the Chancery Court in Lyondell v. Ryan, r...