Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights November 14, 2018 Client Update The Impact of Changing the Shareholder Proposal Resubmission Thresholds Nearly all shareholder proposals meet the current resubmission thresholds of 3%, 6% and 10%, according to a detailed CII r... November 12, 2018 Client Update How Funds View and Vote on Shareholder Proposals In advance of Thursday’s SEC’s Roundtable on the Proxy Process*, it is worth considering the three-part posts by the I... November 7, 2018 Client Update ISS QualityScore Data Verification Opens; New Factors Added ISS QualityScore Data Verification opened on Monday, November 5. Companies should be aware of the new Board Diversity Sub... November 6, 2018 Client Update Federal Reserve Finalizes New Supervisory Ratings System for Large Financial Institutions The Federal Reserve has finalized a new supervisory ratings system for large financial institutions (LFIs). The new LFI r... November 6, 2018 Client Update Benchmarking Against the Spencer Stuart S&P 500 Board Practices Report Spencer Stuart has released its annual report on S&P 500 board practices, a useful guide for benchmarking. The overall tr... November 2, 2018 Client Update MSCI to Retain Existing Indexes Unchanged for Voting Structures but Also Launch New Index Series Unlike S&P and FTSE, after an 18-month consultation period, MSCI has announced that equity securities with unequal voting ... October 31, 2018 Client Update Director Survey Reflects Tension and Skepticism of Investor Priorities PwC’s annual corporate directors survey concludes that boards are evolving and seeking change, rather than primarily val... October 26, 2018 Client Update The New Populist Movement in Antitrust: Could it Change the Status Quo and Does it Threaten American Businesses? In recent years, a new populist school of antitrust thinking has emerged, known as “Neo-Brandeisian” to its proponents... October 25, 2018 Client Update New Glass Lewis Policies Announce Negative Recommendations for Directors in Some Instances When Companies Exclude Special Meeting and Other Shareholder Proposals through SEC Process Under its 2019 updated guidelines, Glass Lewis will typically recommend against the members of the nominating and governan... October 24, 2018 Client Update In New Legal Bulletin, SEC Staff Clarifies Last Season’s Shareholder Proposal Controversies The SEC Division of Corporation Finance has issued a new Staff Legal Bulletin 14J to provide guidance on some of the issue... Load More
November 14, 2018 Client Update The Impact of Changing the Shareholder Proposal Resubmission Thresholds Nearly all shareholder proposals meet the current resubmission thresholds of 3%, 6% and 10%, according to a detailed CII r...
November 12, 2018 Client Update How Funds View and Vote on Shareholder Proposals In advance of Thursday’s SEC’s Roundtable on the Proxy Process*, it is worth considering the three-part posts by the I...
November 7, 2018 Client Update ISS QualityScore Data Verification Opens; New Factors Added ISS QualityScore Data Verification opened on Monday, November 5. Companies should be aware of the new Board Diversity Sub...
November 6, 2018 Client Update Federal Reserve Finalizes New Supervisory Ratings System for Large Financial Institutions The Federal Reserve has finalized a new supervisory ratings system for large financial institutions (LFIs). The new LFI r...
November 6, 2018 Client Update Benchmarking Against the Spencer Stuart S&P 500 Board Practices Report Spencer Stuart has released its annual report on S&P 500 board practices, a useful guide for benchmarking. The overall tr...
November 2, 2018 Client Update MSCI to Retain Existing Indexes Unchanged for Voting Structures but Also Launch New Index Series Unlike S&P and FTSE, after an 18-month consultation period, MSCI has announced that equity securities with unequal voting ...
October 31, 2018 Client Update Director Survey Reflects Tension and Skepticism of Investor Priorities PwC’s annual corporate directors survey concludes that boards are evolving and seeking change, rather than primarily val...
October 26, 2018 Client Update The New Populist Movement in Antitrust: Could it Change the Status Quo and Does it Threaten American Businesses? In recent years, a new populist school of antitrust thinking has emerged, known as “Neo-Brandeisian” to its proponents...
October 25, 2018 Client Update New Glass Lewis Policies Announce Negative Recommendations for Directors in Some Instances When Companies Exclude Special Meeting and Other Shareholder Proposals through SEC Process Under its 2019 updated guidelines, Glass Lewis will typically recommend against the members of the nominating and governan...
October 24, 2018 Client Update In New Legal Bulletin, SEC Staff Clarifies Last Season’s Shareholder Proposal Controversies The SEC Division of Corporation Finance has issued a new Staff Legal Bulletin 14J to provide guidance on some of the issue...