The NYSE has published an updated rule filing submitted to the SEC on the recent proposed listing standards related to compensation committees. The rule filing notes that Amendment No. ...
We just discussed the NYSE’s proposed standards applicable to compensation committee members and their advisers, which closely follow the SEC final rules. Nasdaq has posted its proposed...
The NYSE has posted its proposed filing with the SEC to implement the SEC rules for compensation committees and advisers. We are preparing a client memorandum to describe the standards in...
Less attention is paid to shareholder proposals during the summer months, which is when Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) submitted a series of proposals seeking independent chairm...
Richard Truesdell, Co-Head of Davis Polk’s Global Capital Markets Group, shares his views on the impact of the JOBS Act.
Watch Richard’s interview with Ning Chiu, Counsel in the Capit...
In July we discussed the prospect of two proxy access shareholder proposals coming up for vote this summer, first at Forest Labs and then Medtronic. Both were generated by the form develo...
A recent press release from the Shareholder Rights Project (SRP), issued jointly with the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board, indicates that they have been working...
The new SEC rules regarding compensation committee independence and compensation advisers’ relationships require disclosure of whether the work of certain compensation consultants have ...
A year after opening its new whistleblower office, the SEC announced today that it had paid out $50,000 to an unidentified whistleblower, the first such award under Dodd-Frank. In its pre...
Amidst concerns that the SEC whistleblower rules will encourage employees to bypass internal protocols and take allegations of misconduct directly to the Commission, a survey by the nonpr...
