Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights September 11, 2014 Client Update Company Disputes Claims Related to Vote Counting for Equity Plan Approval As we previously discussed here, in May, a shareholder challenged the validity of an amendment to Cheniere Energy’s 2011... September 9, 2014 Client Update Chair White Addresses Status of SEC Rulemaking Under Dodd-Frank Act For those who wondered what happened to the rule proposal that the SEC issued in January 2011 requiring that investment ma... September 8, 2014 Client Update CII Wants Proxy Disclosure of Board Evaluation Process In the midst of the clamor for disclosure reform that questions whether the current regime requires too much information i... September 4, 2014 Client Update Different Outcomes on No-Action Letters for Shareholder Proposals Aligning Political Contributions and Corporate Values The SEC staff recently disagreed with Procter & Gamble’s no-action letter, which sought to exclude a shareholder proposa... September 4, 2014 Client Update European Regulatory Snapshot: Remuneration in the Financial Services Industry 2014 The move toward stricter regulation of remuneration in the financial services industry in the European Union has continued... August 27, 2014 Client Update Amnesty International Seeks Rehearing of Conflicts Minerals Case Based on Recent First Amendment Ruling Amnesty International filed a supplemental brief to its late May petition for rehearing of the conflict minerals case, bas... August 25, 2014 Client Update Facebook Defends Its Director Compensation in Delaware Litigation Facebook is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the compensation paid to its non-executive directors, which we previo... August 21, 2014 Client Update Proxy Monitor Examines the Impact on Shareholder Proposals from Three Frequent Sponsors – Individuals, Socially Responsible Investors and Labor-Affiliated Funds The NYTimes Dealbook recently focused on a Proxy Monitor study that found that 70% of shareholder proposals submitted by i... August 14, 2014 Client Update ISS Offers Issuers New Data Verification Portal for Equity Compensation Plans ISS has launched a new Equity Plan Data Verification portal to better reflect the most up-to-date data for investors votin... August 13, 2014 Client Update CII Makes Recommendations to SEC on Writing Dodd-Frank Pay for Performance Rulemaking, Questions How to Define Compensation “Actually Paid” The Council of Institutional Investors (CII) sent a letter to Keith Higgins, the director of the SEC Division of Corporati... Load More
September 11, 2014 Client Update Company Disputes Claims Related to Vote Counting for Equity Plan Approval As we previously discussed here, in May, a shareholder challenged the validity of an amendment to Cheniere Energy’s 2011...
September 9, 2014 Client Update Chair White Addresses Status of SEC Rulemaking Under Dodd-Frank Act For those who wondered what happened to the rule proposal that the SEC issued in January 2011 requiring that investment ma...
September 8, 2014 Client Update CII Wants Proxy Disclosure of Board Evaluation Process In the midst of the clamor for disclosure reform that questions whether the current regime requires too much information i...
September 4, 2014 Client Update Different Outcomes on No-Action Letters for Shareholder Proposals Aligning Political Contributions and Corporate Values The SEC staff recently disagreed with Procter & Gamble’s no-action letter, which sought to exclude a shareholder proposa...
September 4, 2014 Client Update European Regulatory Snapshot: Remuneration in the Financial Services Industry 2014 The move toward stricter regulation of remuneration in the financial services industry in the European Union has continued...
August 27, 2014 Client Update Amnesty International Seeks Rehearing of Conflicts Minerals Case Based on Recent First Amendment Ruling Amnesty International filed a supplemental brief to its late May petition for rehearing of the conflict minerals case, bas...
August 25, 2014 Client Update Facebook Defends Its Director Compensation in Delaware Litigation Facebook is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the compensation paid to its non-executive directors, which we previo...
August 21, 2014 Client Update Proxy Monitor Examines the Impact on Shareholder Proposals from Three Frequent Sponsors – Individuals, Socially Responsible Investors and Labor-Affiliated Funds The NYTimes Dealbook recently focused on a Proxy Monitor study that found that 70% of shareholder proposals submitted by i...
August 14, 2014 Client Update ISS Offers Issuers New Data Verification Portal for Equity Compensation Plans ISS has launched a new Equity Plan Data Verification portal to better reflect the most up-to-date data for investors votin...
August 13, 2014 Client Update CII Makes Recommendations to SEC on Writing Dodd-Frank Pay for Performance Rulemaking, Questions How to Define Compensation “Actually Paid” The Council of Institutional Investors (CII) sent a letter to Keith Higgins, the director of the SEC Division of Corporati...