The SEC recently approved amendments to the NYSE Listed Company Manual to provide a uniform method for companies to give notice to the NYSE when required to do so under various sections o...
In what may be a first, Western Union is seeking to exclude a proxy access shareholder proposal from Norges Bank by arguing in a no-action letter request that the company is submitting it...
ISS has announced a replacement to its GRID (governance risk indicators) product named QuickScore. 3,000 U.S. companies by market cap, with the largest 500 compared separately from the re...
Perhaps the surprise of the proxy season so far is the relative quiet with respect to proxy access shareholder proposals, as there have been few reports of companies receiving them. This ...
ISS has updated its pay-for-performance white paper, which is used to explain how it develops recommendations for say-on-pay votes, to include additional information on its recently annou...
On January 11, 2013, the SEC approved the NYSE and Nasdaq listing standards, as amended, to implement the SEC’s requirement that national securities exchanges prohibit the listing of an...
In the current environment and in the wake of Dodd-Frank mandated rules requiring shareholder advisory votes on executive compensation, shareholder-plaintiffs have more aggressively chall...
The SEC has approved new listing standards governing compensation committees as proposed by NYSE and Nasdaq in accordance with the Dodd-Frank Act. The standards are essentially adopted as...
The Chamber of Commerce has come out swinging in its 30-page comment letter on the SEC rulemaking petition urging public disclosure of corporate political spending, which we previously di...
HPs preliminary proxy statement filed recently included a company proposal to allow any shareholder, or no more than 20 in number, who hold 3% or more of HP shares continuously for 3 ye...
