The Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, part of the Chamber of Commerce, issued seven recommendations for shareholder proposal reform. On the same day, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton s...
The 2017 season that just passed witnessed two kinds of proposals asking companies to amend existing proxy access bylaws. The first type sent to companies earlier in the season sought to ...
Like other federal agencies, the SEC recently released its regulatory agenda. The agenda is published by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and B...
With 371 public campaigns against U.S. companies, according to a recent J.P. Morgan report on the new normal in shareholder activism, the 2017 proxy season proved to be fairly active. Alt...
SEC Chairman Jay Clayton gave his first public address yesterday, with some meaningful remarks directed at public company regulations.
The long-term interest of the Main Street Investor (...
The Human Capital Management Coalition has submitted a rulemaking petition to the SEC to require all public companies to disclose information about its workforce. The petition is signed b...
The NYSE has proposed to change its rules to provide for companies to list without the usual process of an underwritten IPO and registering under the Exchange Act. Various news articles i...
In the midst of the controversy over Snap’s issued no-vote shares, and Blue Apron’s authorized but not issued no-vote shares, one company has discarded its efforts to form a class of ...
So far this season 44 shareholder proposals asking companies to appoint independent chairs of boards are on annual meeting ballots. None of the ones voted on have passed, although eight h...
Mylan recently publicly protested what may be a little known ISS policy that impacts the provision of draft reports to S&P 500 companies.
CalSTRS, the New York City Comptroller’s office...
