Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights October 25, 2018 Client Update New Glass Lewis Policies Announce Negative Recommendations for Directors in Some Instances When Companies Exclude Special Meeting and Other Shareholder Proposals through SEC Process Under its 2019 updated guidelines, Glass Lewis will typically recommend against the members of the nominating and governan... October 24, 2018 Client Update In New Legal Bulletin, SEC Staff Clarifies Last Season’s Shareholder Proposal Controversies The SEC Division of Corporation Finance has issued a new Staff Legal Bulletin 14J to provide guidance on some of the issue... October 23, 2018 Client Update Part I of the Key Components in the Commonsense Principles 2.0 – Issuer Responsibilities The Business Roundtable (BRT) and the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) have found common ground in supporting the ... October 19, 2018 Client Update ISS Proposes Limited Policy Updates for 2019 Related to Board Gender Diversity and Say-on-Pay Secondary Screens Two key, but limited, policy changes for U.S. companies have been proposed by ISS. The open comment period will run throu... October 18, 2018 Client Update Adding Insult to Injury: SEC Warns That Cyber Incidents May Lead to Enforcement Action On Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a Section 21(a) report of investigation emphasizing the importan... October 16, 2018 Client Update How Do Retail Shareholders Vote? Retail shareholders own about 30% of public companies, a fairly consistent level over the past five years, but only about ... October 4, 2018 Client Update CII and ISS Team Up to Oppose House Legislation on Proxy Advisory Firms, Speak for “Real Main Street” Investors Protect the Voice of Shareholders aims to oppose H.R. 4015, the Corporate Governance Reform and Transparency Act, that pas... October 3, 2018 Client Update State Street to Hold Governance Committees Accountable for Lack of Gender Diversity On the heels of California becoming the first state to impose requirements mandating gender diversity on boards, which we ... October 1, 2018 Client Update California Enacts Law Requiring Public Company Boards to Include Women On September 30, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill, S.B. 826, which will require all NYSE- and Nasdaq-li... September 25, 2018 Client Update Davis Polk Submits Comment Letter on the SEC’s Concept Release on Compensatory Security Offerings Under Rule 701 and Form S-8 Davis Polk has submitted a comment letter on the SEC’s Concept Release on Compensatory Securities Offerings under Rule 7... Load More
October 25, 2018 Client Update New Glass Lewis Policies Announce Negative Recommendations for Directors in Some Instances When Companies Exclude Special Meeting and Other Shareholder Proposals through SEC Process Under its 2019 updated guidelines, Glass Lewis will typically recommend against the members of the nominating and governan...
October 24, 2018 Client Update In New Legal Bulletin, SEC Staff Clarifies Last Season’s Shareholder Proposal Controversies The SEC Division of Corporation Finance has issued a new Staff Legal Bulletin 14J to provide guidance on some of the issue...
October 23, 2018 Client Update Part I of the Key Components in the Commonsense Principles 2.0 – Issuer Responsibilities The Business Roundtable (BRT) and the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) have found common ground in supporting the ...
October 19, 2018 Client Update ISS Proposes Limited Policy Updates for 2019 Related to Board Gender Diversity and Say-on-Pay Secondary Screens Two key, but limited, policy changes for U.S. companies have been proposed by ISS. The open comment period will run throu...
October 18, 2018 Client Update Adding Insult to Injury: SEC Warns That Cyber Incidents May Lead to Enforcement Action On Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a Section 21(a) report of investigation emphasizing the importan...
October 16, 2018 Client Update How Do Retail Shareholders Vote? Retail shareholders own about 30% of public companies, a fairly consistent level over the past five years, but only about ...
October 4, 2018 Client Update CII and ISS Team Up to Oppose House Legislation on Proxy Advisory Firms, Speak for “Real Main Street” Investors Protect the Voice of Shareholders aims to oppose H.R. 4015, the Corporate Governance Reform and Transparency Act, that pas...
October 3, 2018 Client Update State Street to Hold Governance Committees Accountable for Lack of Gender Diversity On the heels of California becoming the first state to impose requirements mandating gender diversity on boards, which we ...
October 1, 2018 Client Update California Enacts Law Requiring Public Company Boards to Include Women On September 30, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill, S.B. 826, which will require all NYSE- and Nasdaq-li...
September 25, 2018 Client Update Davis Polk Submits Comment Letter on the SEC’s Concept Release on Compensatory Security Offerings Under Rule 701 and Form S-8 Davis Polk has submitted a comment letter on the SEC’s Concept Release on Compensatory Securities Offerings under Rule 7...