While the battle over the SEC’s conflict minerals reporting rules have been the subject of much attention, less focus has fallen on the SEC’s defunct resource extraction rules. Since ...
Yesterday, without explanation, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied the National Association of Manufacturers’ emergency motion to stay the effectiveness of th...
As noted in several press reports, Pershing Square’s recent SEC filing of a preliminary proxy statement related to Allergen is an unusual maneuver in its efforts to cause a merger of th...
The Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN) has taken the novel approach of filing a letter with the SEC Directors at the Division of Enforcement and the Division of Corporation Finance,...
A coalition of proxy advisory firms, including ISS and Glass Lewis, is disputing the requirements in the proposed EU revisions to the Shareholder Rights Directive related to their service...
In a recent speech to the Council of Institutional Investors, SEC Commissioner Kara Stein expressed her support for CII’s rulemaking petition seeking universal proxy ballots for proxy c...
The most common trigger for clawback of compensation is the occurrence of a restatement of financial results, according to a PwC study of 100 large public companies’ proxy disclosure fr...
The SEC’s official position last Friday, which we discussed here, reinforced the Staff’s earlier guidance, and boiled down to a requirement to comply with the conflict minerals rules ...
There remains some confusion about who exactly is getting information about vote tallies before an annual meeting, since the controversy in May 2013 surrounding the independent chair prop...
We recently discussed early 2014 proxy season governance trends. With respect to shareholder proposals, the total number filed in 2014 is expected to exceed the prior year’s total, acco...