The House voted 243-180 yesterday to add language to a fiscal year spending bill that would bar the SEC from writing rules to require universal ballots in proxy contests. The spending bil...
On Friday, the SEC approved NASDAQ rules that require its listed companies to publicly disclose compensation or other payments by third parties to board members or nominees.
NASDAQ made t...
Chair White’s speech before the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) discussed the SEC’s role in U.S. public company governance and focused on the agency’s efforts on b...
In its annual stewardship report covering 2015, State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) indicated that it had voted at 15,471 meetings in 81 countries. The investor voted against management ...
A hearing on SEC oversight held by the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee where Chair White testified and took questions covered a range of topics, but two senators turne...
The White House recently announced an initiative by 28 companies that have pledged to conduct annual gender pay analysis, similar to a shareholder proposal this proxy season that received...
New Item 16 in the Form 10-K would expressly allow issuers to do something that is already permissible – provide a summary in the Form 10-K.
Each summary topic must be hyperlinked (a ...
In a strongly worded statement, Gary Retelny, President and CEO of ISS, testified before the House Committee on Financial Services about the Proxy Advisory Firm Reform Act. We previously ...
As public company governance remains in the spotlight, we examined the governance structures of the 50 largest U.S. newly public companies at the time of their initial offerings. Our sur...
With ongoing pressure on companies that are past the IPO stage to update or modify their corporate governance practices to align with the views of some shareholders and proxy advisory fir...
