At the recent Securities Regulation Institute, Keith Higgins, the head of the SEC Division of Corporation Finance, indicated that the SEC staff will be looking for less detailed disclosur...
While notices of exempt solicitations are becoming more common, they usually do not involve a proponent’s tweets about the company, as is the case with Carl Icahn and the Apple annual m...
The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance recently released three Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations concerning the SEC’s so-called unbundling rule (Exchange Act Rule 14a-4(a)(...
ISS released its technical document on QuickScore 2.0. The changes from the prior version include data updates on an ongoing basis using a company’s public disclosures of changes to its...
The Enforcement Division recently settled with KPMG for its actions involving three companies, none of which were identified. In one case, the firm hired an employee who had just retired ...
As of 9 a.m. EST today, companies can begin verifying their corporate data to make sure that ISS has the most current information for when the proxy advisory firm launches its new version...
To get a perspective on corporate governance challenges at public companies, we turn to a true expert, Bob Lamm. Until March 2013, Bob was Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretar...
Amid the recent uptick in U.S. IPO transactions to levels not seen since the heady days of 1999 and 2000, Davis Polk’s pipeline of deals remains robust, leading us to believe that stren...
This week ISS posted a number of updated documents on their policies, including a revised set of summary guidelines and concise guidelines (hint: the summary guidelines are more useful an...
The Council of Institutional Investors (CII) has petitioned the SEC for the ability to “mix and match” director candidates in a universal proxy. For contested elections, they ask that...
