In the current environment and in the wake of Dodd-Frank mandated rules requiring shareholder advisory votes on executive compensation, shareholder-plaintiffs have more aggressively chall...
The SEC has approved new listing standards governing compensation committees as proposed by NYSE and Nasdaq in accordance with the Dodd-Frank Act. The standards are essentially adopted as...
The Chamber of Commerce has come out swinging in its 30-page comment letter on the SEC rulemaking petition urging public disclosure of corporate political spending, which we previously di...
HPs preliminary proxy statement filed recently included a company proposal to allow any shareholder, or no more than 20 in number, who hold 3% or more of HP shares continuously for 3 ye...
Both the NYSE and NASDAQ have filed further amendments to their proposed listing standards on compensation committees and their advisers. The amendments copy directly from the exception i...
On December 20th, ISS issued two extensive FAQs on their voting policies. This post covers the compensation items (a previous post covered the non-compensation items).
Although the compen...
The Second Circuit recently issued a decision that relates to whether a sale of one class of equity security and a purchase of a different class of equity security issued by the same comp...
According to a post on the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, the SEC has updated its entry in the Office of Management and Budgets Unified Agend...
In the midst of shareholder proposals season as submission deadlines have largely passed and companies are analyzing the proposals received, Georgeson’s 2012 Annual Corporate Governance...
As media outlets are reporting, New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli announced that the NY State Common Retirement Fund has filed suit in Delaware court against Qualcomm for the rig...