Firms offering comprehensive financial services scored a significant victory on April 9, 2013, when Judge Robert Sweet of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New...

Directed by Ceres, the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) has published a consultation paper (free registration required) with recommendations for integrating sustainability disclosu...

As companies prepare for annual meetings, they should consider in advance their preferred approach if the proponent or a designated representative does not attend the meeting to properly ...

In an effort to increase the speed and transparency of its merger review process, China has now released initial drafts of two regulations: one aimed at defining “simple” merger cases...

When the SEC began an investigation of whether a Facebook post by the Netflix CEO violated Regulation FD, companies became alarmed that it represented the regulator’s views that social ...

Glass Lewis is often criticized for its lack of transparency, which is wanting even by the standards of proxy advisory firms. It does not provide companies with a free copy of its own vot...

Regulation FD, adopted by the SEC in 2000, prohibits “selective disclosure” by requiring public companies to disclose material information through broadly accessible channels. Thirtee...

According to the latest Semler Brossy report, only three Russell 3000 companies (Nuance Communications, Digital Generation and Navistar) have failed their say-on-pay vote, with Navistar r...

In the past month, no Dodd-Frank rulemaking requirement deadlines passed or were met with finalized rules. No new rules that would meet rulemaking requirements were proposed. As of April...

The PCAOB has proposed a framework for reorganizing existing auditing standards based on topics. Currently, existing standards consist of “AS Standards,” which are new or amended stan...