The SEC will hold an open meeting on Wednesday, October 11 at 10:00 a.m. to consider whether to propose amendments based on the recommendations in the staff’s Report on Modernization an...
ADP rejected Pershing Square’s recommendation to use a universal proxy card, arguing that given the solicitation has already commenced, changing the voting procedures for a new and unte...
Politics and governance intersect in the 2017 version of the CPA-Zicklin Index, which examines the disclosure practices of the S&P 500 companies on political spending, scores those compan...
ISS received 602 responses from 572 organizations, including 121 institutional investors, on its governance survey. Key findings on the governance principles survey are set forth below. ...
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...
