For those who wondered what happened to the rule proposal that the SEC issued in January 2011 requiring that investment managers report their say-on-pay votes at least annually, the staff...
In the midst of the clamor for disclosure reform that questions whether the current regime requires too much information in public filings, the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) wa...
The SEC staff recently disagreed with Procter & Gamble’s no-action letter, which sought to exclude a shareholder proposal on ordinary business grounds, although a similar proposal sent ...
Amnesty International filed a supplemental brief to its late May petition for rehearing of the conflict minerals case, based on the American Meat decision from late July, which we previou...
Facebook is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the compensation paid to its non-executive directors, which we previously discussed here.
Although a board’s decision to grant compe...
The NYTimes Dealbook recently focused on a Proxy Monitor study that found that 70% of shareholder proposals submitted by individuals to Fortune 250 companies in 2014 were sponsored by thr...
ISS has launched a new Equity Plan Data Verification portal to better reflect the most up-to-date data for investors voting on equity plans. While this process is optional for issuers and...
The Council of Institutional Investors (CII) sent a letter to Keith Higgins, the director of the SEC Division of Corporation Finance, related to the Dodd-Frank requirement for the SEC to ...
The latest SEC award to a whistleblower was notable for having been initially denied because the SEC decided that the information was not “voluntarily” provided. Under the SEC rules, ...
The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) has filed a comment in response to the Chamber of Commerce’s petition asking the Commission to increase the voting approval threshold f...
