A recent Bloomberg report found that 226 no-action letters requesting to exclude shareholder proposals were submitted to the SEC in the first quarter of 2017, a 10% increase over the prio...
The congressional spending proposal that has dominated the news maintains the SEC budget for fiscal 2017, allowing the SEC to operate with the same funding since the last fiscal year ende...
In mid-April, the NYSE made a rule filing with the SEC to require listed companies to give notice to the Exchange at least 10 minutes before any public announcement about dividends or sto...
The modified version of the legislation, CHOICE Act 2.0, released by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), is mostly known for proposing major financial regul...
Vanguard has updated its proxy voting guidelines. Previously, the policy for how the investor will vote on environmental and social proposals indicated that, absent a compelling economic ...
ISS Board Practices show the continuing strength of key governance trends and the differences in practices between large- and mid-cap companies. Directors elected annually and by majority...
The growth of holding annual meetings online (virtual-only meetings) by more than 150 companies last year, up from 21 five years ago, has agitated some investors. The New York City Comptr...
Several companies excluded proposals this season related to their receipt of periodic vote tallies from Broadridge after receiving no-action letter decisions similar to the SEC staff’s ...
Davis Polk has submitted a comment letter on the SEC’s implementation of the pay ratio rule. We previously summarized the final rule here.
Our comment letter focuses on implementation c...
SEC Chair nominee Jay Clayton’s March 23rd hearing before the Senate Banking Committee covered much of the expected ground. In a series of responses designed to avoid controversy, Clayt...
