Greenpeace International, WWF International and the Center for International Environmental Law sent letters to executives and directors of 32 major oil, gas and energy companies, warning ...
The WSJ is reporting that the SEC staff may issue guidance as early as this week to cause proxy advisory firms to disclose more information about potential conflicts of interests. Accordi...
Six governance groups, including the National Association of Corporate Directors, Tapestry Networks and the Center for Audit Quality, have issued a “call to action” urging companies t...
We all know that executive compensation information in proxy statements is getting longer, as a response to the say-on-pay vote. Recently, an E&Y report indicated that proxy statements o...
State Street Global Advisors’ (SSgA) 2014 voting policy on director tenure focuses on what it identifies as the need for “board refreshment.” The policy outlines situations that cou...
According to a recent speech by Chair White, one of the key decision points in nearly every enforcement action is who will be charged as a defendant. She disputed the notion that the SEC ...
While the battle over the SEC’s conflict minerals reporting rules have been the subject of much attention, less focus has fallen on the SEC’s defunct resource extraction rules. Since ...
Yesterday, without explanation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied the National Association of Manufacturers’ emergency motion to stay the effectiveness of th...
As noted in several press reports, Pershing Square’s recent SEC filing of a preliminary proxy statement related to Allergen is an unusual maneuver in its efforts to cause a merger of th...
The Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) has taken the novel approach of filing a letter with the SEC Directors at the Division of Enforcement and the Division of Corporation Finance,...
