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The SEC Office of Chief Counsel has determined that Whole Foods can exclude a shareholder proposal asking the board to adopt a proxy access bylaw to allow one or more shareholders owning ...
After a bruising proxy contest, Darden Restaurants announced last month several meaningful changes to its corporate governance practices, some of which will be voted on by shareholders at...
The U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware determined that Wal-Mart should not have excluded a shareholder proposal from its 2014 proxy statement, even after it received a favor...
On November 19, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously voted to adopt Regulation Systems Compliance and Integrity (“Regulation SCI”), a set of rules designed to stre...
Last week, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), Representative Scott Garrett (R-NJ) and Representative Bill Huizenga (R-MI) sent a letter to SEC Chair White ...
The 2014 Spencer Stuart US Board Index for S&P 500 companies focuses on board composition, turnover and director succession planning. The report concluded that companies that added three ...
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In the past month, no rulemaking requirement deadlines passed, one rulemaking requirement was finalized and no rulemaking requirements were proposed.
As of December 1,...
The CRD IV package, comprising the Capital Requirements Directive IV[1] (CRD IV) and the Capital Requirements Regulation[2] (CRR), sets out requirements in relation to the remuneration po...
On 14 November 2014, the UK Takeover Panel published a response statement (RS 2014/1) to its July consultation on miscellaneous changes to the Takeover Code (PCP 2014/1). The consultatio...
Jay D. Hanson, a board member of the PCAOB, recently spoke about the PCAOB’s efforts to address issues raised by audit committees.
The board of the PCAOB began its outreach to audit c...