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...
A group of senators have written to SEC Acting Chair Piwowar opposing any delay in the implementation of the pay ratio rules. The senators are “extremely troubled” by Commissioner Piw...
A group of investor organizations sent a letter to Gary Cohn, the Director of the National Economic Council, disputing the Business Roundtable’s assertion that the shareholder proposal ...
BlackRock’s Investment Stewardship team of over 30 specialists globally is responsible for engagement with portfolio companies, viewing engagement as an important way to provide feedbac...
New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and the New York City Pension Funds launched the Boardroom Accountability Project in the fall of 2014, by submitting shareholders proposals to 75 ...
Wall Street, Meet Fearless Girl. See the picture and watch the video.
That’s the tagline used by State Street in announcing, on the eve of International Women’s Day, that it has place...
As many of you prepare to file your proxy statements this month, two quick reminders on new developments to keep in mind:
There is no longer a requirement to send the SEC hard copies of ...
