Both the NYSE and NASDAQ have filed further amendments to their proposed listing standards on compensation committees and their advisers. The amendments copy directly from the exception i...
On December 20th, ISS issued two extensive FAQs on their voting policies. This post covers the compensation items (a previous post covered the non-compensation items).
Although the compen...
The Second Circuit recently issued a decision that relates to whether a sale of one class of equity security and a purchase of a different class of equity security issued by the same comp...
According to a post on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, the SEC has updated its entry in the Office of Management and Budgets Unified Agend...
In the midst of shareholder proposals season as submission deadlines have largely passed and companies are analyzing the proposals received, Georgeson’s 2012 Annual Corporate Governance...
As media outlets are reporting, New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced that the NY State Common Retirement Fund has filed suit in Delaware court against Qualcomm for the rig...
On December 20th, ISS issued two extensive FAQs on their voting policies. A separate blog will cover the compensation items.
The non-compensation FAQs cover old ground in many respects, i...
Nasdaq has filed an amendment to its proposed listing standards with respect to compensation committees, as referred to in our recent post. The key provisions include:
Effective Dates. ...
Most of the 15 comment letters on the proposed listing standards for compensation committees by the NYSE and Nasdaq focused on committee member independence. Some commentators, including ...
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters has sent a number of companies shareholder proposals seeking (a) triennial say-on-pay votes and (b) a vote not only on the overall executive compensat...
