Right on the heels of the Glass Lewis policy updates, ISS has also issued its updates that will apply to meetings held on or after February 1, 2017. Similar to Glass Lewis, the ISS policy...
The Business Roundtable recently issued a paper on Modernizing the Shareholder Proposal Process, focused on improving how shareholder proposals are submitted under Rule 14a-8.
The organiz...
The question of whether investors would use proxy access bylaws to make director nominations has been answered.
First came the Schedule 13D with the announcement that GAMCO Asset Managem...
On November 8, 2016, the proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) released updates to its methodology for making its pay-for-performance evaluations of U.S. publi...
It seems fitting to talk about elections today, albeit of a very different kind. Our memo on the SEC proposal to mandate universal proxies is here.
A paper by the Harvard Law School Prog...
A recent compliance and disclosure interpretation by the SEC staff indicated that, in lieu of mailing paper copies of a company’s annual report to the SEC or filing it on Edgar, a compa...
ISS has launched its data verification from October 31, 2016 to November 11, 2016 for the underlying data used in QuickScore (to be rebranded as QualityScore). The data is also used by I...
Yesterday ISS published its draft 2017 voting policies for public comment. Any updated policies will apply to meetings held on or after February 1, 2017. Comments are due by 6:00 p.m. EST...
On October 26, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed long-expected changes to the proxy rules in order to mandate the use of universal proxy cards in contested elections at annu...
