ISS has issued its preliminary US post-season report, which is full of useful statistics about the 2011 proxy season for the data hound. Broc notes some of the key highlights in TheCorpo...
The SEC website contains a schedule of Dodd-Frank rulemaking, which has been helpful but at times confusing when the schedule is updated with little notice. Currently, the schedule for t...
As of July 2010, 43% of S&P 500 companies have separate CEO and chairman positions, but only about half of those companies have an independent chair. The debate about the value of having...
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today vacated Exchange Act Rule 14a-11, which would have required U.S. public companies to include shareholder nominees for election as directors in thei...
As a result of targeted activism in the last few years, more than half of the S&P 500 companies now allow shareholders to call special meetings. The number of shareholder proposals relat...
As is their customary timing, on Friday afternoon the SEC issued several updated CD&I interpretations of particular interest to the governance community:
–Information About Non-Continu...
Proposals to elect directors by a majority vote fared well this season, averaging 56.6% at 31 companies as of early June. This was the topic with the most number of submissions, as Carpe...
This is the first of a series of posts to discuss key shareholder proposals during proxy season 2011.
While ISS reports that 39% of S&P 500 companies continue to have staggered boards,...
The Dodd-Frank frequency vote is of course “nonbinding”, but companies that have “lost” the vote for triennial frequency have almost without exception decided that the better part...
Commenters to the SEC’s proposed rules on listing standards for compensation committees, including issuers, law firms, consultants and organizations like the Society of Corporate Secret...
