TheCorporateCounsel.net hosted a Spreecast with Davis Polk’s Joe Hall and re: The Auditors’ Francine McKenna focused on the PCAOB’s new audit report proposal, which we address in th...
ISS has been commissioned by the IRRC Institute to update its 2011 research on shareholder engagement. A survey is available here and open to corporate issuers and investors. The survey c...
Crediting a whistleblower with providing information that led to recovery of substantial investor funds, the SEC announced that it has awarded a whistleblower more than $14 million. This ...
Since the SEC rules were struck down in 2011, proxy access shareholder proposals have not disrupted the corporate governance landscape as many had feared, but they are slowly gaining mome...
Comments on the SEC pay ratio rule proposal are due on December 2. Fifty-seven short letters from individuals have already been submitted and made public as of September 24. They do not ...
As we indicated in this memo, the SEC “will remain open and operational in the event the federal government undergoes a lapse in appropriations on October 1,” and we understand that t...
The SEC posted on its website its intention to remain open and operational in the event the federal government undergoes a lapse in appropriations on October 1.
Detailed plans announced...
As the exclusive forum case continues to wind its way through the Delaware courts in an appeal, which we cited here, Glass Lewis announced that its position remains unchanged.
According t...
Keith Higgins, the director of the Division of Corporation Finance, spoke at the always informative Tackling Your 2014 Compensation Disclosure: The Proxy Disclosure Conference, which was ...
On September 18, 2013, in a 3-2 vote, the SEC proposed a rule implementing the provision of the Dodd-Frank Act that requires U.S. public companies to disclose a ratio of their CEO’s com...
