After National Fuel Gas declared GAMCO’s proxy access nomination to be invalid, which we previously discussed here, GAMCO filed amendment no. 10 to its Schedule 13D, announcing that its...
President-elect Trump has promised to undo a number of environmental policies and regulations issued by the Obama administration, to promote increased fossil fuel exploration and producti...
National Fuel Gas (NFG) has informed GAMCO Asset Management (GAMCO) that its board has concluded that the company does not need to include GAMCO’s nominee in its 2017 proxy materials be...
Glass Lewis has updated its governance policies for how it evaluates boards and makes recommendations beginning with the 2017 proxy season.
Overboarding. In last year’s update, Glass L...
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...
