ISS is evaluating equity plan ballot proposals under a new “scorecard” approach this season, which we previously discussed here. Through May 12, ISS has supported 85.9% of equity plan...
A group of nine public pension fund fiduciaries has filed a rulemaking petition with the SEC to ask for new disclosure about the gender, race and ethnicity of director nominees in proxy s...
In the first of what is promised to be a series, the PCAOB issued a communication to audit committees to highlight key areas of recurring concern in PCAOB inspections of large audit firms...
On April 30, 2015, the Delaware Court of Chancery held for the second time in three years that a decision by a board of directors or a board’s compensation committee to award equity to ...
As companies begin to assess the impact of the SEC’s recent pay versus performance rule proposal, which we discussed here, ISS Corporate Solutions reports that performance pay now compr...
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 ...
