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This special Progress Report marks the five-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act. To highlight the anniversary, we have developed a stats-driven infographic
looking at the implementati...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued its opinion that permitted Wal-Mart to exclude a shareholder proposal that had asked the board to oversee policies to evalu...
SEC Rules and Regulations
SEC Updates Staff Responses to Questions About Pay-to-Play Rule
SEC Grants No-Action Relief Permitting a Fund of Funds in the Same Group of Investment Companies...
EY Center for Board Matters reviewed the proxy statements of S&P 500 companies and found a dramatic increase in the number of companies that disclose shareholder engagement from five year...
On July 1, the SEC issued a concept release, a forerunner to a potential rulemaking proposal, seeking public comment on whether to expand disclosure requirements about audit committees. T...
A company’s reference to the next annual meeting date as “on or about” June 10 refers to an approximate or anticipated time frame, and not an actual specified date, held the Supreme...
On July 1, 2015, in a 3-2 vote, the SEC proposed a rule implementing Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which requires listed companies to implement clawback policies to recover incentive...
Jim McRitchie at corpgov.net provides an interesting discussion on whether he should withdraw his shareholder proposal at Whole Foods, since the company has now adopted proxy access.
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On June 29, 2015, the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) published an updated opinion on the additional information that it considers will need to be included in a “...
The SEC is seeking public comment through a concept release (Possible Revisions to Audit Committee Disclosures) that it issued yesterday on whether the disclosure of the role of the audit...