At annual meetings so far this year, investors have already voted on more than 30 shareholder proposals asking companies to make proxy access rights available to shareholders who have own...

On May 5, 2016, the Financial Reporting Council’s Pre-Emption Group published its first monitoring report on the application by listed companies of its revised 2015 Statement of Princip...

A recent Semler Brossy report that examined supplementary proxy materials on say-on-pay proposals since 2011 found no material impact on the vote outcome for companies that made those fil...

Following is the Davis Polk visual memorandum reporting on the proposed rule jointly issued by four of the six Agencies implementing Dodd-Frank Act Section 956 regarding incentive compens...

We are in the busiest annual meeting week of the year, with 350 meetings expected to take place during this week alone, making it the appropriate time to examine how investors view voting...

SEC Rules and Regulations SEC Staff Grants No-Action Relief to Index-Linked ETF for Exceeding Ownership Percentage Limitations in Insurance Companies or Securities-Related Issuers under ...

On March 29, 2016, the District Court of Massachusetts issued a highly controversial opinion in the Sun Capital case, holding that multiple private equity funds managed by Sun Capital wer...

Last week, the SEC issued a concept release, a forerunner to potential rulemaking, seeking public comment on modernizing the disclosure requirements in Regulation S-K, the central source ...

In our prior posts here and here, we considered certain aspects of the SEC concept release that asks for comments on changes to Regulation S-K disclosure. In this last post, we look at th...

As previously discussed in our prior post, the SEC concept release on Regulation S-K encourages interested parties to comment on all aspects of business and financial rules that govern co...