Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights February 11, 2014 Client Update UPDATE: Broadridge Reverses Announced Change Regarding Interim Vote Tallies in Proxy Contests Last Thursday, Broadridge announced that it will change its procedures for reporting of interim voting results for proxy c... February 10, 2014 Client Update Changes to Proxy Mechanics Could Affect Proxy Contests Broadridge has announced a new policy that during proxy contests, each party will only receive the interim results of vote... February 10, 2014 Client Update Who Knew that CLOs were Hedge Funds? U.S. financial regulators found themselves on the receiving end of an outpouring of concern from lawmakers last Wednesday ... February 5, 2014 Client Update New ISS Policy Covers Novel Proposals on Proxy Vote Tallies and Vote Counting Methods A number of shareholder proposals this season are focused on aspects of proxy voting, leading ISS to adopt a new policy at... February 4, 2014 Client Update SEC Staff Grants Additional Time to Fix Shareholder Proposal Deficiencies The staff agreed that shareholder proposals at two companies, DTE Energy and NCR, could be excluded for failure to satisfy... February 4, 2014 Client Update UK Financial Conduct Authority Consultation on Sponsor Competence On 30 January, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) issued a consultation paper (CP 14/2) on sponsor compete... February 3, 2014 Client Update Dodd-Frank Progress Report - February 2014 In the past month, no rulemaking requirement deadlines passed or were met with finalized rules, and no new rules were prop... January 31, 2014 Client Update SEC Staff Seeks More Succinct Disclosure on Stock Valuation for IPO Registration Statements At the recent Securities Regulation Institute, Keith Higgins, the head of the SEC Division of Corporation Finance, indicat... January 30, 2014 Client Update Shareholder Proposals Seeking Divestitures While notices of exempt solicitations are becoming more common, they usually do not involve a proponent’s tweets about t... January 29, 2014 Client Update SEC Staff Issues Further Guidance on the Proxy “Unbundling” Rule The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance recently released three Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations concerning t... Load More
February 11, 2014 Client Update UPDATE: Broadridge Reverses Announced Change Regarding Interim Vote Tallies in Proxy Contests Last Thursday, Broadridge announced that it will change its procedures for reporting of interim voting results for proxy c...
February 10, 2014 Client Update Changes to Proxy Mechanics Could Affect Proxy Contests Broadridge has announced a new policy that during proxy contests, each party will only receive the interim results of vote...
February 10, 2014 Client Update Who Knew that CLOs were Hedge Funds? U.S. financial regulators found themselves on the receiving end of an outpouring of concern from lawmakers last Wednesday ...
February 5, 2014 Client Update New ISS Policy Covers Novel Proposals on Proxy Vote Tallies and Vote Counting Methods A number of shareholder proposals this season are focused on aspects of proxy voting, leading ISS to adopt a new policy at...
February 4, 2014 Client Update SEC Staff Grants Additional Time to Fix Shareholder Proposal Deficiencies The staff agreed that shareholder proposals at two companies, DTE Energy and NCR, could be excluded for failure to satisfy...
February 4, 2014 Client Update UK Financial Conduct Authority Consultation on Sponsor Competence On 30 January, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) issued a consultation paper (CP 14/2) on sponsor compete...
February 3, 2014 Client Update Dodd-Frank Progress Report - February 2014 In the past month, no rulemaking requirement deadlines passed or were met with finalized rules, and no new rules were prop...
January 31, 2014 Client Update SEC Staff Seeks More Succinct Disclosure on Stock Valuation for IPO Registration Statements At the recent Securities Regulation Institute, Keith Higgins, the head of the SEC Division of Corporation Finance, indicat...
January 30, 2014 Client Update Shareholder Proposals Seeking Divestitures While notices of exempt solicitations are becoming more common, they usually do not involve a proponent’s tweets about t...
January 29, 2014 Client Update SEC Staff Issues Further Guidance on the Proxy “Unbundling” Rule The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance recently released three Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations concerning t...