The SEC plans to hold a vote on adopting a final resource extraction rule on or before June 27, 2016, which is within 270 days of the filing of a recent notice with the U.S. District Cour...
Just before the deadline on Friday, both the SEC and Amnesty International filed petitions for a review of the most recent court decision on the SEC’s conflict minerals rule. The petiti...
ISS has released the results of its survey, which will govern changes to its policies beginning with annual meetings after February 1, 2016. A draft of the updated policy will be issued o...
As has been widely mentioned by SEC Commissioners and Staff, the Staff has been undertaking a broad-based review of disclosure requirements, known as the Disclosure Effectiveness Initiati...
The New York Stock Exchange has amended its rules regarding the public release of material information, which will become operative on September 28. Most significantly, the amendments to ...
Those following the latest developments on proxy access may be interested in Jim McRitchie’s recent blog post, where he posted the language of a new version of proxy access that he is s...
The importance of the retail shareholder vote came out in force this past season, as 85% of retail shares were cast against proxy access shareholder proposals at over 80 companies. At the...
The SEC’s recent concept release on possible revisions to audit committee disclosure has ignited debate about whether additional information, and the type of information, that would be ...
Oxfam America scored a recent victory when the U.S. District Court in the District of Massachusetts decided that the SEC must file with the Court an expedited schedule for promulgating a ...
NYSE listed companies are currently required to notify the Exchange before disseminating material news so that it can halt trading if needed. Now the NYSE has proposed, in a rule filing w...
