At the SEC open meeting today, the Commission proposed changes to require the use of universal proxy cards in contested proxy elections and rules to specify clearly the applicable voting ...
The SEC has announced an open meeting on Wednesday, October 26, at 10 a.m. to consider whether to propose amendments to the proxy rules relating to the use of universal proxy cards and di...
Yesterday, the Staff released five questions and answers regarding compliance with the pay ratio disclosure rules, including responses to:
Use of a consistently applied compensation meas...
Activist campaigns targeting companies with market capitalizations above $500 million have resulted in approximately 13% of total new board appointments in 2016 so far. As of August 2016,...
The SEC staff has denied another no-action letter seeking to exclude a shareholder proposal to amend an existing proxy access bylaw on the grounds of substantial implementation, similar t...
ISS has just released the results of its survey on potential policy changes. We previously discussed the survey questions here. The global survey attracted 439 responses, from 417 organi...
The SEC recently found that EY violated the auditor independence rules in two cases based on the audit partners’ close personal relationships with members of the issuer finance teams. ...
Current and former holders of political office are among the many who wrote in to the SEC with comments on its Regulation S-K concept release. Former New York City Mayor Bloomberg, curren...
Andrew Ceresney, the director of the Division of Enforcement at the SEC, gave a speech recently about the success of the SEC whistleblower program. It contained some interesting data that...
While several major SEC disclosure requirements remain in the proposal stage and the pay ratio disclosure does not come into play until the proxy statement for 2018 meetings, companies sh...
