Twenty-one comment letters have been submitted about the SEC’s proposed rules on disclosure of hedging by employees, officers and directors, including ours linked here.
The Council of I...
Continuing to add to the speculation that the pay ratio disclosure rules will be finalized by fall as we recently discussed here, the SEC issued a press release yesterday that the staff h...
According to the Regulatory Flexibility Agenda recently published, we can expect to see a host of governance rulemaking from the SEC on or before April 2016. However, the Agenda has gener...
Seven companies this proxy season are offering investors with alternative management and shareholder proposals on proxy access. The two competing proposals provide different ownership thr...
ISS is evaluating equity plan ballot proposals under a new “scorecard” approach this season, which we previously discussed here. Through May 12, ISS has supported 85.9% of equity plan...
A group of nine public pension fund fiduciaries has filed a rulemaking petition with the SEC to ask for new disclosure about the gender, race and ethnicity of director nominees in proxy s...
In the first of what is promised to be a series, the PCAOB issued a communication to audit committees to highlight key areas of recurring concern in PCAOB inspections of large audit firms...
On April 30, 2015, the Delaware Court of Chancery held for the second time in three years that a decision by a board of directors or a board’s compensation committee to award equity to ...
As companies begin to assess the impact of the SEC’s recent pay versus performance rule proposal, which we discussed here, ISS Corporate Solutions reports that performance pay now compr...
SEC Chair White urged companies that “it is past time to stop wringing our hands about whistleblowers,” announcing that whistleblowers “provide an invaluable public service” and t...
