On Tuesday, I was fortunate to co-moderate a NYSE-sponsored webcast with Judy McLevey at the NYSE, as we discussed the leading proxy and governance issues for 2012 with a group of recogni...
A number of companies have been unhappy to discover that ISS’ recent adoption and resulting move to GRId 2.0 changed “low” or “medium” concerns to move up a notch (to “medium?...
The SEC Staff has agreed that several companies can exclude their proxy access shareholder proposals that were modeled on a template provided by the United States Proxy Exchange, which al...
The SEC Staff made several recent decisions on questions of proof of ownership for submission of shareholder proposals, in light of the requirement under Staff Legal Bulletin 14F, which w...
Today, February 20, ISS has posted a preview of its updated GRId 2.0 data profiles for U.S. companies. Company representatives can access the GRId profile (for free) through the ISS data...
Just in time before most proxy statements are issued, the SEC staff has issued a CDI on how say-on-pay resolutions should be described on proxy cards and voting instruction forms, with sp...
Instead of being the first company with a proxy access shareholder proposal voted on at its meeting, Hewlett-Packard recently became the third company to agree to implement proxy access. ...
As companies are in the midst of preparing their proxy statements, some may have forgotten an interpretation that the SEC Staff issued last summer regarding the use of non-GAAP financial ...
ISS issued several helpful FAQs to further explain how it will evaluate pay-for-performance, management responses to prior say-on-pay votes and equity compensation plans. A particularly ...
Western Union recently submitted a no-action letter to the SEC Staff seeking to exclude a binding proxy access shareholder proposal from Norges Bank, arguing under Rule 14a-8(i)(9) that t...
