Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights August 1, 2014 Articles & Books Corporate Governance Practices in IPOs Despite pressure on US public companies to adopt certain governance practices, a review of the largest initial public offe... July 31, 2014 Client Update SEC Staff Rules Proposals on Interim Vote Tallies Can Be Excluded as Ordinary Business Matters As a result of the controversy regarding the availability of interim vote tallies during the 2013 proxy season, which we?... July 30, 2014 Client Update A Review of the First Wave of Conflict Mineral Filings Over the past 18 months companies have scoured their supply chains and wrestled with hard-to-interpret regulatory mandates... July 28, 2014 Client Update Interesting Findings from NIRI’s Earnings Call Survey A vast majority of companies have adopted similar practices and protocols for their earnings calls, but there were some no... July 23, 2014 Client Update Eliminating Shareholder Ability to Call a Special Meeting Approximately 60% of S&P 500 companies provide shareholders with the right to call special meetings. Coupled with the move... July 22, 2014 Client Update Davis Polk Marks Dodd-Frank Implementation Progress, Four Years After Passage As politicians spar over whether the seminal Dodd-Frank Act has achieved its objectives on its fourth anniversary that pas... July 18, 2014 Client Update ISS Announces Policy Survey for 2015 Proxy Season Yesterday, ISS announced the issuance of its 2015 proxy voting policy survey. Investors, issuers and their advisors are en... 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... Load More
August 1, 2014 Articles & Books Corporate Governance Practices in IPOs Despite pressure on US public companies to adopt certain governance practices, a review of the largest initial public offe...
July 31, 2014 Client Update SEC Staff Rules Proposals on Interim Vote Tallies Can Be Excluded as Ordinary Business Matters As a result of the controversy regarding the availability of interim vote tallies during the 2013 proxy season, which we?...
July 30, 2014 Client Update A Review of the First Wave of Conflict Mineral Filings Over the past 18 months companies have scoured their supply chains and wrestled with hard-to-interpret regulatory mandates...
July 28, 2014 Client Update Interesting Findings from NIRI’s Earnings Call Survey A vast majority of companies have adopted similar practices and protocols for their earnings calls, but there were some no...
July 23, 2014 Client Update Eliminating Shareholder Ability to Call a Special Meeting Approximately 60% of S&P 500 companies provide shareholders with the right to call special meetings. Coupled with the move...
July 22, 2014 Client Update Davis Polk Marks Dodd-Frank Implementation Progress, Four Years After Passage As politicians spar over whether the seminal Dodd-Frank Act has achieved its objectives on its fourth anniversary that pas...
July 18, 2014 Client Update ISS Announces Policy Survey for 2015 Proxy Season Yesterday, ISS announced the issuance of its 2015 proxy voting policy survey. Investors, issuers and their advisors are en...
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...