Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights May 6, 2015 Client Update Chair White on the SEC as Advocate of Whistleblowers and Confidentiality Agreements SEC Chair White urged companies that “it is past time to stop wringing our hands about whistleblowers,” announcing tha... May 4, 2015 Client Update Significant Decrease in Traditional Governance Shareholder Proposals Filed This season ISS is tracking only 10 proposals seeking to declassify boards, a two-third drop from the number of proposals ... May 1, 2015 Client Update SEC Proposes “Pay Versus Performance” Rule On April 29, 2015, a divided Securities and Exchange Commission proposed requiring U.S. public companies to disclose the r... April 29, 2015 Client Update SEC Open Meeting to Adopt Pay Versus Performance Rule Proposal Dodd- Frank directs the Commission to require public companies to disclose a clear description of the relationship between... April 28, 2015 Client Update SEC Rule on Stock Buybacks Questioned Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) has sent a letter to SEC Chair White to express her concerns about the increase in stock buyb... April 27, 2015 Client Update Proxy Access Shareholder Proposals Show Mixed Voting Results So Far At ten companies where shareholders have cast votes on proxy access shareholder proposals this season, four companies rece... April 23, 2015 Client Update SEC to Consider Pay for Performance Rulemaking Next Wednesday The SEC has announced an open meeting on Wednesday, April 29, 2015, at 10:00 am to consider whether to propose amendments ... April 22, 2015 Client Update Solicitation Filings in Support of Proxy Access by CalPERS and New York City Pension Funds Companies with proxy access shareholder proposals on their annual meeting ballots are confronting a notice of exempt solic... April 21, 2015 Client Update Davis Polk Comment Letter to the SEC on the Hedging Disclosure Rule Proposal Davis Polk has submitted a comment letter on the SEC proposal for companies to disclose their equity hedging policies. We... April 17, 2015 Client Update Spotlight on Pro Rata Vesting, Rather than Accelerated Vesting, of Awards in Change in Control Events According to Amalgamated Bank, the Trustee to the LongView Funds, five companies have agreed to adopt new measures to limi... Load More
May 6, 2015 Client Update Chair White on the SEC as Advocate of Whistleblowers and Confidentiality Agreements SEC Chair White urged companies that “it is past time to stop wringing our hands about whistleblowers,” announcing tha...
May 4, 2015 Client Update Significant Decrease in Traditional Governance Shareholder Proposals Filed This season ISS is tracking only 10 proposals seeking to declassify boards, a two-third drop from the number of proposals ...
May 1, 2015 Client Update SEC Proposes “Pay Versus Performance” Rule On April 29, 2015, a divided Securities and Exchange Commission proposed requiring U.S. public companies to disclose the r...
April 29, 2015 Client Update SEC Open Meeting to Adopt Pay Versus Performance Rule Proposal Dodd- Frank directs the Commission to require public companies to disclose a clear description of the relationship between...
April 28, 2015 Client Update SEC Rule on Stock Buybacks Questioned Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) has sent a letter to SEC Chair White to express her concerns about the increase in stock buyb...
April 27, 2015 Client Update Proxy Access Shareholder Proposals Show Mixed Voting Results So Far At ten companies where shareholders have cast votes on proxy access shareholder proposals this season, four companies rece...
April 23, 2015 Client Update SEC to Consider Pay for Performance Rulemaking Next Wednesday The SEC has announced an open meeting on Wednesday, April 29, 2015, at 10:00 am to consider whether to propose amendments ...
April 22, 2015 Client Update Solicitation Filings in Support of Proxy Access by CalPERS and New York City Pension Funds Companies with proxy access shareholder proposals on their annual meeting ballots are confronting a notice of exempt solic...
April 21, 2015 Client Update Davis Polk Comment Letter to the SEC on the Hedging Disclosure Rule Proposal Davis Polk has submitted a comment letter on the SEC proposal for companies to disclose their equity hedging policies. We...
April 17, 2015 Client Update Spotlight on Pro Rata Vesting, Rather than Accelerated Vesting, of Awards in Change in Control Events According to Amalgamated Bank, the Trustee to the LongView Funds, five companies have agreed to adopt new measures to limi...