On June 20, 2012, the U.K. Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Vince Cable announced a package of proposals intended to curb executive pay. This follows the U.K. govern...
Yesterday marked an active day on the corporate governance front. First, the U.K. Government announced a far reaching package of reform to strengthen the hand of shareholders to challen...
Yesterday, the SEC finalized rules implementing the Dodd-Frank Act’s requirements regarding the independence of compensation committees and their advisers. For the most part, the SEC ma...
Being an election year, its no surprise that the most prolific type of shareholder proposal this season asked for disclosure and oversight of political contributions and lobbying expens...
A lot has already been written about the controversy surrounding Chesapeake’s governance and its annual meeting taking place today, but since it is unusual for shareholders to litigate ...
In the first win of its kind, a majority of shareholders at Nabors Industries voted in favor of a proposal for the right of shareholders owning 3% or more for at least three years to nomi...
It is an unusual annual meeting where Justin Timberlake acts as the Master of Ceremonies and Taylor Swift, Celine Dion, Lionel Ritchie and others perform for over 14,000, mostly employees...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce recently sent a letter to the SEC asking the regulator to “monitor the activities” of Glass Lewis, questioning whether the proxy advisory firm’s recent ...
The 2012 proxy season in the United States, forecast by some to feature significant turmoil and change, has in fact been less tumultuous than expected. It’s been all quiet on the regula...
This proxy season there has been a lot of focus on companies filing additional soliciting materials to supplement proxy disclosure, with a particular focus on executive compensation in li...
