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...
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 ...
