Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights October 26, 2016 Client Update SEC Proposes Rules on Universal Ballots and Proxy Disclosure for All Director Elections At the SEC open meeting today, the Commission proposed changes to require the use of universal proxy cards in contested pr... October 21, 2016 Client Update SEC Announces Meeting to Consider Proposing Universal Ballot Rules Next Week The SEC has announced an open meeting on Wednesday, October 26, at 10 a.m. to consider whether to propose amendments to th... October 19, 2016 Client Update SEC Staff Issues Interpretative Guidance on Pay Ratio Disclosure Rules Yesterday, the Staff released five questions and answers regarding compliance with the pay ratio disclosure rules, includi... October 14, 2016 Articles & Books Jensen Embodied in Proposed Dodd-Frank Rule The possibility that a C-level executive might have his or her compensation “clawed back” after engineering a financia... October 11, 2016 Client Update State Street Warns Companies Against Settlement Agreements with Activists that Focus on Short-Term Goals Activist campaigns targeting companies with market capitalizations above $500 million have resulted in approximately 13% o... October 4, 2016 Client Update SEC Staff Continues to Reject Attempts to Exclude Proposals to Amend Existing Proxy Access Bylaws The SEC staff has denied another no-action letter seeking to exclude a shareholder proposal to amend an existing proxy acc... September 30, 2016 Client Update Issue 7: Lex et Brexit — The Law and Brexit IN THIS ISSUE: Introduction French pitch for Paris to become Europe’s financial center A regime with sticking power... September 30, 2016 Client Update SEC Proposes T+2 Settlement Cycle On September 28, in a long-anticipated move, the SEC proposed to shorten the standard settlement cycle for most broker-dea... September 29, 2016 Client Update ISS Releases Survey Boards That Will Inform 2017 Policy Changes ISS has just released the results of its survey on potential policy changes. We previously discussed the survey questions... September 26, 2016 Client Update Implications for Issuers from Recent Auditor Independence Enforcement Cases The SEC recently found that EY violated the auditor independence rules in two cases based on the audit partners’ close p... Load More
October 26, 2016 Client Update SEC Proposes Rules on Universal Ballots and Proxy Disclosure for All Director Elections At the SEC open meeting today, the Commission proposed changes to require the use of universal proxy cards in contested pr...
October 21, 2016 Client Update SEC Announces Meeting to Consider Proposing Universal Ballot Rules Next Week The SEC has announced an open meeting on Wednesday, October 26, at 10 a.m. to consider whether to propose amendments to th...
October 19, 2016 Client Update SEC Staff Issues Interpretative Guidance on Pay Ratio Disclosure Rules Yesterday, the Staff released five questions and answers regarding compliance with the pay ratio disclosure rules, includi...
October 14, 2016 Articles & Books Jensen Embodied in Proposed Dodd-Frank Rule The possibility that a C-level executive might have his or her compensation “clawed back” after engineering a financia...
October 11, 2016 Client Update State Street Warns Companies Against Settlement Agreements with Activists that Focus on Short-Term Goals Activist campaigns targeting companies with market capitalizations above $500 million have resulted in approximately 13% o...
October 4, 2016 Client Update SEC Staff Continues to Reject Attempts to Exclude Proposals to Amend Existing Proxy Access Bylaws The SEC staff has denied another no-action letter seeking to exclude a shareholder proposal to amend an existing proxy acc...
September 30, 2016 Client Update Issue 7: Lex et Brexit — The Law and Brexit IN THIS ISSUE: Introduction French pitch for Paris to become Europe’s financial center A regime with sticking power...
September 30, 2016 Client Update SEC Proposes T+2 Settlement Cycle On September 28, in a long-anticipated move, the SEC proposed to shorten the standard settlement cycle for most broker-dea...
September 29, 2016 Client Update ISS Releases Survey Boards That Will Inform 2017 Policy Changes ISS has just released the results of its survey on potential policy changes. We previously discussed the survey questions...
September 26, 2016 Client Update Implications for Issuers from Recent Auditor Independence Enforcement Cases The SEC recently found that EY violated the auditor independence rules in two cases based on the audit partners’ close p...