We recently published a survey of corporate governance practices adopted by companies in their IPOs
. Our survey concluded that IPO companies continue to adopt charter provisions such as...
In what appears to be the first of its kind, the SEC staff has determined that a company cannot exclude a proposal that a board amend its existing proxy access bylaw on the basis of subst...
A new MSCI report reviewed 429 large-cap U.S. companies from 2006 to 2015 and found that, on a 10-year cumulative basis, total shareholder returns of those companies whose compensation wa...
A group of twelve CEOs, including JPM, Berkshire Hathaway, GE, GM, Verizon and those from major institutional investors such as Capital Group, BlackRock, Vanguard, StateStreet, T. Rowe Pr...
At an SEC open meeting today, the Staff of the SEC recommended to the Commission what Chair White characterized as part of its “modest but important work” toward the disclosure effect...
The House voted 243-180 yesterday to add language to a fiscal year spending bill that would bar the SEC from writing rules to require universal ballots in proxy contests. The spending bil...
On Friday, the SEC approved NASDAQ rules that require its listed companies to publicly disclose compensation or other payments by third parties to board members or nominees.
NASDAQ made t...
Chair White’s speech before the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) discussed the SEC’s role in U.S. public company governance and focused on the agency’s efforts on b...
In its annual stewardship report covering 2015, State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) indicated that it had voted at 15,471 meetings in 81 countries. The investor voted against management ...
A hearing on SEC oversight held by the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee where Chair White testified and took questions covered a range of topics, but two senators turne...
