Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights July 17, 2014 Client Update SEC Fines Accounting Firm for Auditor Independence Violations and an Unrelated Company Pulls Prior Financial Statements Audited by Same Firm Due to Inappropriate Personal Relationship For actively helping two public company clients lobby congressional staff members about pending legislation, the SEC charg... July 15, 2014 Client Update ISS Reports on Preliminary Postseason Results According to the ISS US preliminary postseason update, the win rate for dissidents, measured by whether they won at least ... July 10, 2014 Client Update The Trend for Fee-Shifting Bylaws The numbers keep changing, but the latest report indicates that six public (or soon-to-be-public) companies have adopted f... July 8, 2014 Client Update Group Seeks Regulatory Requirement for Disclosure on Reasons That Directors Who Do Not Receive Majority Support Remain on Their Boards 85% of directors at Russell 3000 companies who failed to receive majority support for their election remain on those board... July 2, 2014 Articles & Books Corporate Governance 2014: Global Overview Corporate governance remains a hot topic worldwide this year, but for different reasons in different regions. In the Unite... July 2, 2014 Client Update Keith Higgins’ Comments at the Society Annual Conference and More on the SEC Guidance on the Use of Proxy Advisory On TheCorporateCounsel.net, Broc Romanek and I prepared a 13-minute podcast summarizing Keith Higgins’ remarks made at t... July 1, 2014 Client Update SEC Guidance on Use of Proxy Advisory Firms for Voting Proxies The power and influence of proxy advisory firms in affecting the outcome of shareholder meetings have been hotly debated i... June 30, 2014 Client Update Chair White Speaks on Director and Shareholder Engagement as Part of What Directors Should Know About the SEC Among the usual exhortations regarding directors’ responsibilities for setting the correct “tone at the top” and est... June 27, 2014 Client Update U.S. Supreme Court: No Presumption of Prudence for ESOP Fiduciaries, Court Details Pleading Requirements for Breach of Prudence Claims On June 25, 2014, in Fifth Third Bancorp et al. v. Dudenhoeffer et al., the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned the ... June 23, 2014 Client Update Will Congress Act to Rein in Proxy Advisory Firms? Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC) indicated that Congress will step in if the SEC fails to act to curb investors’ relia... Load More
July 17, 2014 Client Update SEC Fines Accounting Firm for Auditor Independence Violations and an Unrelated Company Pulls Prior Financial Statements Audited by Same Firm Due to Inappropriate Personal Relationship For actively helping two public company clients lobby congressional staff members about pending legislation, the SEC charg...
July 15, 2014 Client Update ISS Reports on Preliminary Postseason Results According to the ISS US preliminary postseason update, the win rate for dissidents, measured by whether they won at least ...
July 10, 2014 Client Update The Trend for Fee-Shifting Bylaws The numbers keep changing, but the latest report indicates that six public (or soon-to-be-public) companies have adopted f...
July 8, 2014 Client Update Group Seeks Regulatory Requirement for Disclosure on Reasons That Directors Who Do Not Receive Majority Support Remain on Their Boards 85% of directors at Russell 3000 companies who failed to receive majority support for their election remain on those board...
July 2, 2014 Articles & Books Corporate Governance 2014: Global Overview Corporate governance remains a hot topic worldwide this year, but for different reasons in different regions. In the Unite...
July 2, 2014 Client Update Keith Higgins’ Comments at the Society Annual Conference and More on the SEC Guidance on the Use of Proxy Advisory On TheCorporateCounsel.net, Broc Romanek and I prepared a 13-minute podcast summarizing Keith Higgins’ remarks made at t...
July 1, 2014 Client Update SEC Guidance on Use of Proxy Advisory Firms for Voting Proxies The power and influence of proxy advisory firms in affecting the outcome of shareholder meetings have been hotly debated i...
June 30, 2014 Client Update Chair White Speaks on Director and Shareholder Engagement as Part of What Directors Should Know About the SEC Among the usual exhortations regarding directors’ responsibilities for setting the correct “tone at the top” and est...
June 27, 2014 Client Update U.S. Supreme Court: No Presumption of Prudence for ESOP Fiduciaries, Court Details Pleading Requirements for Breach of Prudence Claims On June 25, 2014, in Fifth Third Bancorp et al. v. Dudenhoeffer et al., the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned the ...
June 23, 2014 Client Update Will Congress Act to Rein in Proxy Advisory Firms? Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC) indicated that Congress will step in if the SEC fails to act to curb investors’ relia...