Since some companies have made significant changes to the presentation of their proxy statements, Keith Higgins, Director of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance, is encouraging co...
91% of big companies disclose the existence of anti-hedging policies and 66% mention anti-pledging policies, according to the Meridian 2014 Governance and Design Survey, which examined th...
The Center for Political Accountability has published the 2014 CPA-Zicklin Index, which rates 300 companies in the S&P 500 on their disclosure of corporate political spending. Nearly half...
ISS released the results of its policy survey. The responses, from 105 individual institutional investors and 255 members of the corporate issuer community (including advisers), may infor...
The most interesting element of the SEC’s latest whistleblower award, the largest so far at $30 million, may be the lengthy footnote that explains why the Commission believes an award p...
The SEC Dodd-Frank Investor Advisory Committee, established pursuant to Dodd-Frank, has provided notice that it will hold a public meeting on Thursday, October 9, 2014, from 10:00 a.m. un...
Shareholders were asked to vote on almost 1,200 equity plan proposals in the first half of 2014, according to the ISS U.S. Proxy Season Review Report, with an average approval rate of 89%...
SEC Chair White has spoken about the SEC’s interest in reforming the current disclosure regime, which we discuss here. Perhaps foreshadowing the possible benefits of change, the WSJ rec...
Rehearing en banc of the conflict minerals case is not warranted because there is no conflict with other court decisions, argues the National Association of Manufacturers, Chamber of Comm...
As we previously discussed here, in May, a shareholder challenged the validity of an amendment to Cheniere Energy’s 2011 incentive plan that was voted on at the company’s February 201...
