Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights December 8, 2015 Client Update Proxy Access Shareholder Proposal Exclusion Request Based on State Law Requirements for Record Holders to Present Proposals An interesting no-action letter request has been submitted to the SEC to exclude a proxy access proposal submitted by Ken ... December 3, 2015 Client Update Thinking About Indemnity Protections after the "Yates Memo" On November 16, 2015, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates gave a speech regarding the implementation of the Depar... December 2, 2015 Client Update Plurality Carve-Out in Majority Voting Standards Ethan Allen’s seven nominees for the company’s board received overwhelming support in the recent proxy contest against... November 24, 2015 Client Update Window Period Opens for Updating ISS and Glass Lewis About Changes to Peer Group Selection Beginning today, ISS is accepting updates to companies’ self-selected compensation benchmarking peers, if those companie... November 23, 2015 Client Update ISS and Glass Lewis Adopt Policy Changes for the 2016 Proxy Season ISS and Glass Lewis have updated their proxy voting guidelines. Key changes include policies on overboarding by public co... November 20, 2015 Client Update ISS Announces Updates to Proxy Voting Guidelines ISS has issued its updates to its proxy voting guidelines effective for meetings on or after February 1, 2016. The policy ... November 19, 2015 Client Update SEC Division of Corporation Finance Chief on Rule Changes that Could Improve Executive Compensation Disclosure In a speech focused on executive compensation disclosure, Keith Higgins raised a number of possible rule changes that he b... November 17, 2015 Client Update CalPERS Focus on Board Tenure as Measure of Director Independence CalPERS is considering changing its proxy voting policies to account for issues of director tenure. New language in its g... November 16, 2015 Client Update Glass Lewis Announces Policy Changes for 2016 Glass Lewis updated its voting guidelines that apply to the 2016 proxy season. There are limited revisions from the prior ... November 12, 2015 Client Update Post-Season Review from Vanguard In preparing for the upcoming proxy season, it is helpful to examine the information that investors provide about their mo... Load More
December 8, 2015 Client Update Proxy Access Shareholder Proposal Exclusion Request Based on State Law Requirements for Record Holders to Present Proposals An interesting no-action letter request has been submitted to the SEC to exclude a proxy access proposal submitted by Ken ...
December 3, 2015 Client Update Thinking About Indemnity Protections after the "Yates Memo" On November 16, 2015, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates gave a speech regarding the implementation of the Depar...
December 2, 2015 Client Update Plurality Carve-Out in Majority Voting Standards Ethan Allen’s seven nominees for the company’s board received overwhelming support in the recent proxy contest against...
November 24, 2015 Client Update Window Period Opens for Updating ISS and Glass Lewis About Changes to Peer Group Selection Beginning today, ISS is accepting updates to companies’ self-selected compensation benchmarking peers, if those companie...
November 23, 2015 Client Update ISS and Glass Lewis Adopt Policy Changes for the 2016 Proxy Season ISS and Glass Lewis have updated their proxy voting guidelines. Key changes include policies on overboarding by public co...
November 20, 2015 Client Update ISS Announces Updates to Proxy Voting Guidelines ISS has issued its updates to its proxy voting guidelines effective for meetings on or after February 1, 2016. The policy ...
November 19, 2015 Client Update SEC Division of Corporation Finance Chief on Rule Changes that Could Improve Executive Compensation Disclosure In a speech focused on executive compensation disclosure, Keith Higgins raised a number of possible rule changes that he b...
November 17, 2015 Client Update CalPERS Focus on Board Tenure as Measure of Director Independence CalPERS is considering changing its proxy voting policies to account for issues of director tenure. New language in its g...
November 16, 2015 Client Update Glass Lewis Announces Policy Changes for 2016 Glass Lewis updated its voting guidelines that apply to the 2016 proxy season. There are limited revisions from the prior ...
November 12, 2015 Client Update Post-Season Review from Vanguard In preparing for the upcoming proxy season, it is helpful to examine the information that investors provide about their mo...