ISS has launched a new Equity Plan Data Verification portal to better reflect the most up-to-date data for investors voting on equity plans. While this process is optional for issuers and...
The Council of Institutional Investors (CII) sent a letter to Keith Higgins, the director of the SEC Division of Corporation Finance, related to the Dodd-Frank requirement for the SEC to ...
The latest SEC award to a whistleblower was notable for having been initially denied because the SEC decided that the information was not “voluntarily” provided. Under the SEC rules, ...
The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) has filed a comment in response to the Chamber of Commerce’s petition asking the Commission to increase the voting approval threshold f...
In a decision that may predict the outcome of the ongoing SEC conflict minerals court case, a divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, sitting en banc, ruled that a regulation ...
As a result of the controversy regarding the availability of interim vote tallies during the 2013 proxy season, which we’ve previously discussed here, numerous companies received shareh...
A vast majority of companies have adopted similar practices and protocols for their earnings calls, but there were some notable differences and perhaps a few surprises, from the results o...
Approximately 60% of S&P 500 companies provide shareholders with the right to call special meetings. Coupled with the move away from classified boards and toward annual director elections...
As politicians spar over whether the seminal Dodd-Frank Act has achieved its objectives on its fourth anniversary that passed on Monday, and attempts continue to repeal many of its provis...
Yesterday, ISS announced the issuance of its 2015 proxy voting policy survey. Investors, issuers and their advisors are encouraged to respond to the survey by August 29. In prior years, f...
