Several shareholder proposals this season ask boards to adopt clawback policies that would be triggered by any misconduct resulting in a violation of law or policy that causes significant...
Under its existing policy, ISS will recommend against the election of boards of directors who adopt bylaw or charter amendments that they view as materially diminishing shareholder rights...
More than half of the 64 investors who responded to a survey conducted by the Stanford Rock Center for Corporate Governance, RR Donnelley and Equilar between September and December 2014, ...
In its long-awaited FAQs, ISS indicates that it will generally recommend in favor of management and shareholder proposals for proxy access which allow for nominations to be made by shareh...
The NYSE has proposed amending its rules on the solicitation of proxies through member organizations, as set forth in Section 402.05 of the Listed Company Manual, to make clear that compa...
Amalgamated Bank’s LongView Funds has written to several Delaware representatives, including the state governor, urging immediate legislative action to clarify that the “American rule...
Proxy access is back in the news and back on the agenda for many U.S. public companies. Four years after the DC Circuit invalidated the SEC’s proxy-access rule, we are seeing company-by...
As a result of the SEC decision to withdraw its no-action letter decision granting Whole Foods the ability to exclude a proxy access shareholder proposal on January 16, the company has de...
In a recent speech on shareholder proposals, Keith Higgins, the SEC director of the Division of Corporation Finance, indicated that the rights under Rule 14a-8 for shareholder proposals i...
On February 9, 2015, the SEC proposed a long-awaited rule on disclosure of company equity hedging policies, as required by Section 955 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Pr...
