SEC Chair White urged companies that “it is past time to stop wringing our hands about whistleblowers,” announcing that whistleblowers “provide an invaluable public service” and t...
This season ISS is tracking only 10 proposals seeking to declassify boards, a two-third drop from the number of proposals in 2014. This is likely attributable to the absence of assistance...
On April 29, 2015, a divided Securities and Exchange Commission proposed requiring U.S. public companies to disclose the relationship between executive compensation and the company’s fi...
Dodd- Frank directs the Commission to require public companies to disclose a clear description of the relationship between executive compensation actually paid and the financial performan...
Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) has sent a letter to SEC Chair White to express her concerns about the increase in stock buybacks and asks for information on Rule 10b-18, including analytic ...
At ten companies where shareholders have cast votes on proxy access shareholder proposals this season, four companies received more votes in favor of the proposal than against it, while a...
The SEC has announced an open meeting on Wednesday, April 29, 2015, at 10:00 am to consider whether to propose amendments requiring companies to disclose the relationship between executiv...
Companies with proxy access shareholder proposals on their annual meeting ballots are confronting a notice of exempt solicitation filed by the California Public Employees Retirement Syste...
Davis Polk has submitted a comment letter on the SEC proposal for companies to disclose their equity hedging policies. We previously summarized the rule proposal here.
Our comment letter...
According to Amalgamated Bank, the Trustee to the LongView Funds, five companies have agreed to adopt new measures to limit payments in the event of a change in control. Amalgamated Bank ...
