According to a recent speech by PCAOB board member Jay Hanson, the PCAOB is evaluating the comments they have received on their proposal to add a discussion of “critical audit matters?...
The SEC’s proposed rules on pay ratio disclosure is again the focus of Congressional attention, as three members of the House, Congressional Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs Representatives...
As companies that received proxy access shareholder proposals for this proxy season are determining their the best course of action, which we recently discussed here, others are waiting a...
It has been nearly four years since April 17, 2011, the original deadline under Dodd-Frank for the SEC to adopt a resource extraction disclosure rule. After the SEC adopted a rule 2012, ...
Two press releases announced that the New York City Comptroller has agreed to withdraw proxy access shareholder proposals at Staples and Abercrombie & Fitch. Agreements have also been re...
A derivative suit filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington alleges that Nordstrom violated securities laws in not fully disclosing aircraft-related...
At its annual meeting on March 10, Apple’s shareholder proposal on proxy access received a little more than 39% of the votes cast in favor of the proposal. The proposal asked the board ...
433 resolutions have been filed so far on a wide range of environmental and social issues, a record number, according to Proxy Preview 2015, a publication by As You Sow, the Sustainable I...
With universal proxy cards as the recent focus of an SEC roundtable, CII asked the SEC to prioritize facilitating universal proxies on the SEC’s regulatory agenda. CII had already made ...
As is the practice from time to time, the Corporation Law Section of the Delaware State Bar Association has proposed amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law (the DGCL) for the ...
