With President-elect Donald Trump’s transition underway, speculation has been rife as to the impact of his Administration and a Republican-controlled Congress on a variety of issues, in...
The SEC’s 2016 report to Congress on its whistleblower program announced that it paid out $57 million in fiscal 2016, more than the total amount awarded during the entire first five yea...
Since the SEC staff first decided that a shareholder proposal asking to amend several terms of an existing proxy access bylaw could not be excluded from a proxy statement, which we previo...
The composition of boards continues to be a focus for investors, and companies are responding by paying increased attention both to who sits on their boards and to enhancing their disclos...
After National Fuel Gas declared GAMCO’s proxy access nomination to be invalid, which we previously discussed here, GAMCO filed amendment no. 10 to its Schedule 13D, announcing that its...
President-elect Trump has promised to undo a number of environmental policies and regulations issued by the Obama administration, to promote increased fossil fuel exploration and producti...
National Fuel Gas (NFG) has informed GAMCO Asset Management (GAMCO) that its board has concluded that the company does not need to include GAMCO’s nominee in its 2017 proxy materials be...
Glass Lewis has updated its governance policies for how it evaluates boards and makes recommendations beginning with the 2017 proxy season.
Overboarding. In last year’s update, Glass L...
Right on the heels of the Glass Lewis policy updates, ISS has also issued its updates that will apply to meetings held on or after February 1, 2017. Similar to Glass Lewis, the ISS policy...
The Business Roundtable recently issued a paper on Modernizing the Shareholder Proposal Process, focused on improving how shareholder proposals are submitted under Rule 14a-8.
The organiz...
