The Shareholder Communications Coalition, a group that includes the Business Roundtable, the National Investors Relations Institute and the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance...
As 2011 neared a close, ISS announced that it will update its Governance Risk Indicators (called GRId 2.0) on February 24, 2012 to score all Russell 3000 companies. For the first time, a...
As we remarked back in August 2011, the SEC website with its rulemaking schedule on Dodd-Frank initiatives is changed with little notice, as it has been again. Back in August 2011 we eve...
After receiving comments and hosting a roundtable, the PCAOB has reproposed for comment an auditing standard on Communications with Audit Committees by making modifications to its origina...
SEC Chairman Schapiro recently made a speech about corporate governance at the Transatlantic Corporate Governance Dialogue which provides some insight into upcoming SEC initiatives in thi...
For most companies 2011 was the first year for say-on-pay. The good news is that most emerged from the process unscathed. Only a relative handful (38 of the Russell 3000, including eight ...
During its 2012 North American Proxy Season review, proxy advisory services firm Glass Lewis looked back to the 2011 proxy season and also gave insights as to what we can expect from them...
ISS has asked that we encourage interested parties to register for its free webinar to discuss its new proxy voting guidelines, which we recently summarized in a client publication. The ...
ISS’s annual policy update, released this month in anticipation of the 2012 proxy season, revises existing policies and adopts new ones to respond to current developments. The policy ch...
In what may be the first major decision this proxy season on shareholder proposals, the SEC staff has granted no-action letters to two companies, Hewlett-Packard Company and Deere & Compa...
