Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights January 12, 2015 Client Update CII Challenges Companies’ Own Proxy Access Proposals and SEC Staff’s Decision on Whole Foods’ Shareholder Proposal According to the Council of Institutional Investors (CII), the 2015 proxy season is off to an “explosive start” becaus... January 7, 2015 Client Update Conflict Minerals Case Continues as Appellants File Supplemental Brief In late December, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable (the Appe... January 5, 2015 Client Update Whole Foods and Other Companies’ Own Versions of Proxy Access Proposals Although the SEC permitted Whole Foods to exclude a shareholder proposal asking the board to amend its bylaws to allow for... December 31, 2014 Client Update ISS Issues FAQs on Its New Equity Plan Scorecard The FAQs issued by ISS on its new Equity Plan Scorecard (EPSC) model indicate that the revised model will consider, and sc... December 30, 2014 Client Update ISS Issues FAQs on Its New Independent Chair Proposal Policy ISS recently issued new FAQs on its 2015 policy updates. As we discussed in our memo, a key change relates to how ISS will... December 22, 2014 Client Update Top Five Considerations for Improved Proxy Disclosure from Investors’ Perspectives RR Donnelley’s survey from last year on how investors view proxy statements continues to be worth considering now, as co... December 21, 2014 Client Update Delaware Supreme Court Reverses Preliminary Injunction Requiring Go-Shop; Reaffirms “No Single Blueprint” to Satisfy Revlon Duties On Friday, December 19, 2014, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed a preliminary injunction entered by the Delaware Court o... December 17, 2014 Client Update Challenging the Legality of the Harvard Shareholder Rights Projects’ Declassification Shareholder Proposals Professor Joseph Grundfest of Stanford Law School and SEC Commissioner Daniel Gallagher have co-authored an academic paper... December 16, 2014 Client Update NYSE Proposes to Amend Its Listing Standards Related to Delinquent Filings The NYSE has proposed to amend its listing requirements related to a company filing delinquent reports with the SEC. The p... December 12, 2014 Client Update SEC Defends Conflict Minerals Disclosure as Case Continues As requested by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on the conflict minerals case, the SEC has filed a brief addressing the ... Load More
January 12, 2015 Client Update CII Challenges Companies’ Own Proxy Access Proposals and SEC Staff’s Decision on Whole Foods’ Shareholder Proposal According to the Council of Institutional Investors (CII), the 2015 proxy season is off to an “explosive start” becaus...
January 7, 2015 Client Update Conflict Minerals Case Continues as Appellants File Supplemental Brief In late December, the National Association of Manufacturers, the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable (the Appe...
January 5, 2015 Client Update Whole Foods and Other Companies’ Own Versions of Proxy Access Proposals Although the SEC permitted Whole Foods to exclude a shareholder proposal asking the board to amend its bylaws to allow for...
December 31, 2014 Client Update ISS Issues FAQs on Its New Equity Plan Scorecard The FAQs issued by ISS on its new Equity Plan Scorecard (EPSC) model indicate that the revised model will consider, and sc...
December 30, 2014 Client Update ISS Issues FAQs on Its New Independent Chair Proposal Policy ISS recently issued new FAQs on its 2015 policy updates. As we discussed in our memo, a key change relates to how ISS will...
December 22, 2014 Client Update Top Five Considerations for Improved Proxy Disclosure from Investors’ Perspectives RR Donnelley’s survey from last year on how investors view proxy statements continues to be worth considering now, as co...
December 21, 2014 Client Update Delaware Supreme Court Reverses Preliminary Injunction Requiring Go-Shop; Reaffirms “No Single Blueprint” to Satisfy Revlon Duties On Friday, December 19, 2014, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed a preliminary injunction entered by the Delaware Court o...
December 17, 2014 Client Update Challenging the Legality of the Harvard Shareholder Rights Projects’ Declassification Shareholder Proposals Professor Joseph Grundfest of Stanford Law School and SEC Commissioner Daniel Gallagher have co-authored an academic paper...
December 16, 2014 Client Update NYSE Proposes to Amend Its Listing Standards Related to Delinquent Filings The NYSE has proposed to amend its listing requirements related to a company filing delinquent reports with the SEC. The p...
December 12, 2014 Client Update SEC Defends Conflict Minerals Disclosure as Case Continues As requested by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on the conflict minerals case, the SEC has filed a brief addressing the ...