Yesterday, the SEC proposed rules that would require companies to include a hyperlink to each exhibit listed in registration statements and periodic and current reports, including among o...
The SEC released an 8-page request for comments to ask for input on Subpart 400 of Regulation S-K, including Item 401 (director and officer information), Item 402 (executive compensation)...
A new report from the Rock Center for Corporate Governance with the provocative title “Gadflies at the Gate” tries to answer the question so many companies have asked themselves: Why...
The SEC this month has brought two actions for violation of whistleblower rules. According to a SEC cease-and-desist order released on August 10, at one company in 2011 to the present the...
ISS has issued its policy survey for the 2017 proxy season. The responses to the survey questions from interested parties inform the firm’s changes to its policies in making voting reco...
We recently published a survey of corporate governance practices adopted by companies in their IPOs
. Our survey concluded that IPO companies continue to adopt charter provisions such as...
In what appears to be the first of its kind, the SEC staff has determined that a company cannot exclude a proposal that a board amend its existing proxy access bylaw on the basis of subst...
A new MSCI report reviewed 429 large-cap U.S. companies from 2006 to 2015 and found that, on a 10-year cumulative basis, total shareholder returns of those companies whose compensation wa...
A group of twelve CEOs, including JPM, Berkshire Hathaway, GE, GM, Verizon and those from major institutional investors such as Capital Group, BlackRock, Vanguard, StateStreet, T. Rowe Pr...
At an SEC open meeting today, the Staff of the SEC recommended to the Commission what Chair White characterized as part of its “modest but important work” toward the disclosure effect...
