On September 21, 2017, the SEC issued guidance to assist companies in their efforts to comply with the pay ratio disclosure requirement mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act. Overall, the guidan...
As companies are coming to grips with the reality that the pay ratio rules will not be delayed, the SEC yesterday issued interpretative guidance that went a long way toward reassuring com...
The state of Delaware fell from the top-ranked position to number 11 in the most recent survey on the business-friendly environment for lawsuits in state courts, ceding ground to the stat...
Although the failure rate for 2017 say-on pay results achieved an all-time low of just 1.3%, the number belies the fact that more than 2,000 say-on pay proposals have either received nega...
Vanguard cast more than 171,000 individual votes at nearly 13,000 companies in 68 countries for the 12-month period ending June 30th, making the firm one of the most influential investors...
Shareholder activism decreases the number of women and minority directors on target company boards, an impact seen even after activism ends, according to a new ISS study commissioned by t...
New EEOC regulations seeking pay data will not go into effect in March 2018 as planned. According to the EEOC, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) informed the Commission that it i...
The NYSE has asked the SEC to delay the effectiveness of its recently approved rule requiring listed companies to provide notice to the Exchange at least 10 minutes before making a public...
Deloitte and EY both recently published studies about audit committee disclosure in the proxy statements of the largest companies. Deloitte examined the S&P 100 while EY concentrated on ...
In response to a statutory requirement, the SEC Staff of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) has issued a lengthy report to Congress on the combined impacts of the Dodd-Fran...
