Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights 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... April 15, 2015 Client Update Appeals Court Rules That Wal-Mart Can Exclude a Shareholder Proposal About Its Products As has been reported, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has decided that Wal-Mart does not have to include i... April 13, 2015 Client Update Chamber of Commerce Seeks SEC Guidance on Confidentiality Agreements after the KBR Action In a letter to SEC Chair White, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, through the Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness (CCMC... April 8, 2015 Client Update SEC Staff Allows Shareholder Proposal to Be Excluded Due to False and Misleading Supporting Statement The SEC staff has determined that a shareholder proposal can be excluded under Rule 14a-8(i)(3) because the supporting sta... April 6, 2015 Client Update Surveys Find Limited Pay-for-Performance Disclosure and Wide Use of Stock Ownership Guidelines A Towers Watson survey found that only about 27% of Fortune 500 companies provided some type of pay-for-performance discus... April 3, 2015 Client Update IRS Releases Final Regulations Under Section 162(m): Some Relief for Newly Public Companies On March 31, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service published final regulations under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue C... April 1, 2015 Client Update SEC Charges Company and Former Executive with Improper Perks Disclosure The SEC charged that the former CEO of Polycom used corporate funds to pay for about $190,000 of personal perks for severa... March 31, 2015 Client Update T. Rowe Price Voting Policies Explains Formation of Guidelines, Proxy Access Position and 2014 Votes T. Rowe Price’s proxy voting policies explains that its Proxy Committee develops the firm’s positions on major proxy v... March 27, 2015 Client Update PCAOB Plans to Re-Propose Standard Governing Critical Audit Matters in Auditors’ Reports According to a recent speech by PCAOB board member Jay Hanson, the PCAOB is evaluating the comments they have received on ... March 25, 2015 Client Update Congress Tries to Influence Timing of Pay Ratio Rule The SEC’s proposed rules on pay ratio disclosure is again the focus of Congressional attention, as three members of the ... Load More
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...
April 15, 2015 Client Update Appeals Court Rules That Wal-Mart Can Exclude a Shareholder Proposal About Its Products As has been reported, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has decided that Wal-Mart does not have to include i...
April 13, 2015 Client Update Chamber of Commerce Seeks SEC Guidance on Confidentiality Agreements after the KBR Action In a letter to SEC Chair White, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, through the Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness (CCMC...
April 8, 2015 Client Update SEC Staff Allows Shareholder Proposal to Be Excluded Due to False and Misleading Supporting Statement The SEC staff has determined that a shareholder proposal can be excluded under Rule 14a-8(i)(3) because the supporting sta...
April 6, 2015 Client Update Surveys Find Limited Pay-for-Performance Disclosure and Wide Use of Stock Ownership Guidelines A Towers Watson survey found that only about 27% of Fortune 500 companies provided some type of pay-for-performance discus...
April 3, 2015 Client Update IRS Releases Final Regulations Under Section 162(m): Some Relief for Newly Public Companies On March 31, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service published final regulations under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue C...
April 1, 2015 Client Update SEC Charges Company and Former Executive with Improper Perks Disclosure The SEC charged that the former CEO of Polycom used corporate funds to pay for about $190,000 of personal perks for severa...
March 31, 2015 Client Update T. Rowe Price Voting Policies Explains Formation of Guidelines, Proxy Access Position and 2014 Votes T. Rowe Price’s proxy voting policies explains that its Proxy Committee develops the firm’s positions on major proxy v...
March 27, 2015 Client Update PCAOB Plans to Re-Propose Standard Governing Critical Audit Matters in Auditors’ Reports According to a recent speech by PCAOB board member Jay Hanson, the PCAOB is evaluating the comments they have received on ...
March 25, 2015 Client Update Congress Tries to Influence Timing of Pay Ratio Rule The SEC’s proposed rules on pay ratio disclosure is again the focus of Congressional attention, as three members of the ...