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...
Imperial Holdings’ shareholders have sued the company and its board over a bylaw that the board adopted last November. The bylaw requires that a current or prior shareholder may not ini...
The SEC has released a rule proposal on disclosure of hedging by employees, officers and directors, as required under the Dodd-Frank Act.
We will issue a client memorandum shortly.
The Chamber of Commerce has sent a letter to SEC Chair White to “express significant concern” regarding the announcement that the SEC staff will express no views on the application of...
Trinity Wall Street (Trinity), the proponent of a shareholder proposal to Wal-Mart that is currently the subject of an appeal from a district court ruling in the U.S. Court of Appeals for...
It is difficult to make any predictions at this point about when the SEC may take any rulemaking-related actions, but the WSJ reports that the Commission intends to issue a concept releas...
A proxy access proposal submitted by John Harrington received 53.46% of the votes cast in favor at Monsanto’s annual meeting on Friday. In a press release, the company indicated that th...
