Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights December 22, 2014 Client Update Top Five Considerations for Improved Proxy Disclosure from Investors’ Perspectives RR Donnelley’s survey from last year on how investors view proxy statements continues to be worth considering now, as co... December 21, 2014 Client Update Delaware Supreme Court Reverses Preliminary Injunction Requiring Go-Shop; Reaffirms “No Single Blueprint” to Satisfy Revlon Duties On Friday, December 19, 2014, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed a preliminary injunction entered by the Delaware Court o... December 17, 2014 Client Update Challenging the Legality of the Harvard Shareholder Rights Projects’ Declassification Shareholder Proposals Professor Joseph Grundfest of Stanford Law School and SEC Commissioner Daniel Gallagher have co-authored an academic paper... December 16, 2014 Client Update NYSE Proposes to Amend Its Listing Standards Related to Delinquent Filings The NYSE has proposed to amend its listing requirements related to a company filing delinquent reports with the SEC. The p... December 12, 2014 Client Update SEC Defends Conflict Minerals Disclosure as Case Continues As requested by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on the conflict minerals case, the SEC has filed a brief addressing the ... December 10, 2014 Client Update Early SEC Staff No-Action Decisions Resolves New Types of Exclusion Requests on Shareholder Proposals The SEC Office of Chief Counsel has determined that Whole Foods can exclude a shareholder proposal asking the board to ado... December 9, 2014 Client Update Darden Board Makes Significant Changes to Its Corporate Governance Practices After a bruising proxy contest, Darden Restaurants announced last month several meaningful changes to its corporate govern... December 5, 2014 Client Update District Court Rules Wal-Mart Should Not Have Relied on an SEC Staff Decision and Excluded a Shareholder Proposal in Its 2014 Proxy Materials The U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware determined that Wal-Mart should not have excluded a shareholder propo... December 2, 2014 Client Update SEC Urged to Delay Pay Ratio Rule Adoption by Some Members of House Financial Services Committee Last week, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), Representative Scott Garrett (R-NJ) and Repr... December 1, 2014 Client Update Changes in Board Composition for Large-Cap Companies (December 2014) The 2014 Spencer Stuart US Board Index for S&P 500 companies focuses on board composition, turnover and director successio... Load More
December 22, 2014 Client Update Top Five Considerations for Improved Proxy Disclosure from Investors’ Perspectives RR Donnelley’s survey from last year on how investors view proxy statements continues to be worth considering now, as co...
December 21, 2014 Client Update Delaware Supreme Court Reverses Preliminary Injunction Requiring Go-Shop; Reaffirms “No Single Blueprint” to Satisfy Revlon Duties On Friday, December 19, 2014, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed a preliminary injunction entered by the Delaware Court o...
December 17, 2014 Client Update Challenging the Legality of the Harvard Shareholder Rights Projects’ Declassification Shareholder Proposals Professor Joseph Grundfest of Stanford Law School and SEC Commissioner Daniel Gallagher have co-authored an academic paper...
December 16, 2014 Client Update NYSE Proposes to Amend Its Listing Standards Related to Delinquent Filings The NYSE has proposed to amend its listing requirements related to a company filing delinquent reports with the SEC. The p...
December 12, 2014 Client Update SEC Defends Conflict Minerals Disclosure as Case Continues As requested by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on the conflict minerals case, the SEC has filed a brief addressing the ...
December 10, 2014 Client Update Early SEC Staff No-Action Decisions Resolves New Types of Exclusion Requests on Shareholder Proposals The SEC Office of Chief Counsel has determined that Whole Foods can exclude a shareholder proposal asking the board to ado...
December 9, 2014 Client Update Darden Board Makes Significant Changes to Its Corporate Governance Practices After a bruising proxy contest, Darden Restaurants announced last month several meaningful changes to its corporate govern...
December 5, 2014 Client Update District Court Rules Wal-Mart Should Not Have Relied on an SEC Staff Decision and Excluded a Shareholder Proposal in Its 2014 Proxy Materials The U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware determined that Wal-Mart should not have excluded a shareholder propo...
December 2, 2014 Client Update SEC Urged to Delay Pay Ratio Rule Adoption by Some Members of House Financial Services Committee Last week, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), Representative Scott Garrett (R-NJ) and Repr...
December 1, 2014 Client Update Changes in Board Composition for Large-Cap Companies (December 2014) The 2014 Spencer Stuart US Board Index for S&P 500 companies focuses on board composition, turnover and director successio...