ISS counts Tempur Sealy as among the 28 proxy contests during the first six months of 2015, the busiest period for contests since 2009, even though the dissidents waged a “vote no” ca...
The SEC Office of Economic and Risk Analysis has made available on its website a lengthy working paper on proxy access, specifically on the trade-offs between universal proxy access throu...
Our memo on the court’s decision upholding its ruling on the SEC’s conflict minerals disclosure is here.
EY’s recent analysis of the second year of conflict minerals reporting concl...
In the ongoing challenge to the SEC’s conflict minerals rule, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, issued an opinion on August 18 upholding its April 2014 finding that ...
“Remember what we learned in school. Acquiescing to bullies only gives them more ammunition and makes it worse.”
Those were part of Commissioner Piwowar’s passionate remarks during ...
On August 5, 2015, in a 3-2 vote, the SEC adopted a final rule implementing the provision of the Dodd-Frank Act that requires U.S. public companies to disclose the ratio of their CEO’s ...
As another example of how proxy access has entered into an advance stage of the governance dialogue, we are now wading into discussions regarding specific bylaw provisions, first with the...
The SEC held an open meeting today to adopt the final rules requiring pay ratio disclosure, which were just released. A company’s first reporting period for the pay ratio disclosure is ...
Changes to charters and bylaws by boards, director and executive compensation, proxy access, director independence and overboarding are the key topics of focus in the ISS survey for the 2...
A recent survey by the Brunswick Group counters beliefs that retail investors are always “pro-management” in any voting contest. The survey examined the views of 801 US-based individ...
