Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights March 27, 2018 Client Update SEC Rulemaking Petition Advocates for Retail Investors to Provide Standing Voting Instructions for Corporate Election in Order to Increase Voter Participation Retail investors own about 30% of shares but only vote 29% of the time, compared to institutional investors voting 91% of ... March 21, 2018 Client Update More Investors to Vote Against Directors for Lack of Board Diversity, and Specialty ISS Policies Push for 30% Diverse Representation Certain investors are expected to hold governance committees, and in some cases the entire board, accountable through dire... March 16, 2018 Client Update SEC Cybersecurity Guidance and Commissioner Comments in the Context of an SEC Cybersecurity Enforcement Case Related to Insider Trading The SEC cybersecurity guidance, which we discuss in this client memo, reminds companies that their directors, officers and... March 8, 2018 Client Update State Street Screens S&P 500 Companies for Non-Compliance with Investor Stewardship Group Governance Principles The Chief Investment Officer of State Street Global Advisor (SSGA) has sent letters to board chairs and lead directors at ... March 7, 2018 Client Update First Wave of Pay Ratio Disclosures Filed U.S. public companies recently began disclosing their CEO-to-median employee pay ratios, as required by the Dodd-Frank Act... March 2, 2018 Client Update SEC Approves Rules to Eliminate Requirement for NYSE-Listed Companies to Provide Hard Copies of Proxy Materials to NYSE NYSE-listed companies that file proxy materials under Schedule 14A so that the materials are available on Edgar will no lo... February 26, 2018 Client Update A First – SEC Staff Decides in Favor of a Company Using SLB 14I A company will be permitted to exclude a shareholder proposal seeking a report assessing the environmental impacts of cont... February 23, 2018 Client Update SEC Issues Updated Cybersecurity Guidance On February 21, the Securities and Exchange Commission released updated interpretive guidance on cybersecurity disclosure,... February 22, 2018 Client Update SEC Staff Denied No-Action Relief for Independent Chairmen Shareholder Proposals that Referred to NYSE Standards The SEC staff recently denied no-action relief to two Nasdaq-listed companies that sought to exclude proposals asking for ... February 21, 2018 Articles & Books Getting the Deal Through: Shareholder Activism & Engagement Trends and Developments in the UK 2018 Arthur Golden, Thomas Reid, and Laura Turano are pleased to be the contributing editors to the third edition of Getting th... Load More
March 27, 2018 Client Update SEC Rulemaking Petition Advocates for Retail Investors to Provide Standing Voting Instructions for Corporate Election in Order to Increase Voter Participation Retail investors own about 30% of shares but only vote 29% of the time, compared to institutional investors voting 91% of ...
March 21, 2018 Client Update More Investors to Vote Against Directors for Lack of Board Diversity, and Specialty ISS Policies Push for 30% Diverse Representation Certain investors are expected to hold governance committees, and in some cases the entire board, accountable through dire...
March 16, 2018 Client Update SEC Cybersecurity Guidance and Commissioner Comments in the Context of an SEC Cybersecurity Enforcement Case Related to Insider Trading The SEC cybersecurity guidance, which we discuss in this client memo, reminds companies that their directors, officers and...
March 8, 2018 Client Update State Street Screens S&P 500 Companies for Non-Compliance with Investor Stewardship Group Governance Principles The Chief Investment Officer of State Street Global Advisor (SSGA) has sent letters to board chairs and lead directors at ...
March 7, 2018 Client Update First Wave of Pay Ratio Disclosures Filed U.S. public companies recently began disclosing their CEO-to-median employee pay ratios, as required by the Dodd-Frank Act...
March 2, 2018 Client Update SEC Approves Rules to Eliminate Requirement for NYSE-Listed Companies to Provide Hard Copies of Proxy Materials to NYSE NYSE-listed companies that file proxy materials under Schedule 14A so that the materials are available on Edgar will no lo...
February 26, 2018 Client Update A First – SEC Staff Decides in Favor of a Company Using SLB 14I A company will be permitted to exclude a shareholder proposal seeking a report assessing the environmental impacts of cont...
February 23, 2018 Client Update SEC Issues Updated Cybersecurity Guidance On February 21, the Securities and Exchange Commission released updated interpretive guidance on cybersecurity disclosure,...
February 22, 2018 Client Update SEC Staff Denied No-Action Relief for Independent Chairmen Shareholder Proposals that Referred to NYSE Standards The SEC staff recently denied no-action relief to two Nasdaq-listed companies that sought to exclude proposals asking for ...
February 21, 2018 Articles & Books Getting the Deal Through: Shareholder Activism & Engagement Trends and Developments in the UK 2018 Arthur Golden, Thomas Reid, and Laura Turano are pleased to be the contributing editors to the third edition of Getting th...