On November 16, 2012, Institutional Shareholder Services issued its final updates to its proxy voting guidelines for the 2013 proxy season. The key items of change from last year’s guid...
On Tuesday, October 16, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) proposed updates to its proxy voting guidelines for the 2013 proxy season.
ISS’s proposed policy would:
Recommend voti...
On September 25, 2012, both the NYSE and Nasdaq proposed listing standards to implement the SEC’s requirements regarding the independence of compensation committees and their advisers. ...
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...
Since our last blog post on say-on-pay litigation in January 2012, there have been several dismissals of say-on-pay lawsuits on procedural grounds – principally the failure of plaintiff...
For the past two proxy seasons, companies have criticized how proxy advisory services have selected company peer groups in order to evaluate pay for performance for purposes of making...
In the midst of the focus on executive compensation litigation, a recent Delaware opinion serves as a reminder that stockholder approval of at least some portion of director compensation ...
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...
