Practice Mobile Menu Trigger Overview Experience Team Insights Subscribe to insights October 23, 2018 Client Update Part I of the Key Components in the Commonsense Principles 2.0 – Issuer Responsibilities The Business Roundtable (BRT) and the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) have found common ground in supporting the ... October 19, 2018 Client Update ISS Proposes Limited Policy Updates for 2019 Related to Board Gender Diversity and Say-on-Pay Secondary Screens Two key, but limited, policy changes for U.S. companies have been proposed by ISS. The open comment period will run throu... October 18, 2018 Client Update Adding Insult to Injury: SEC Warns That Cyber Incidents May Lead to Enforcement Action On Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a Section 21(a) report of investigation emphasizing the importan... October 16, 2018 Client Update How Do Retail Shareholders Vote? Retail shareholders own about 30% of public companies, a fairly consistent level over the past five years, but only about ... October 4, 2018 Client Update CII and ISS Team Up to Oppose House Legislation on Proxy Advisory Firms, Speak for “Real Main Street” Investors Protect the Voice of Shareholders aims to oppose H.R. 4015, the Corporate Governance Reform and Transparency Act, that pas... October 3, 2018 Client Update State Street to Hold Governance Committees Accountable for Lack of Gender Diversity On the heels of California becoming the first state to impose requirements mandating gender diversity on boards, which we ... October 1, 2018 Client Update California Enacts Law Requiring Public Company Boards to Include Women On September 30, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill, S.B. 826, which will require all NYSE- and Nasdaq-li... September 25, 2018 Client Update Davis Polk Submits Comment Letter on the SEC’s Concept Release on Compensatory Security Offerings Under Rule 701 and Form S-8 Davis Polk has submitted a comment letter on the SEC’s Concept Release on Compensatory Securities Offerings under Rule 7... September 24, 2018 Client Update SEC Charges Former CEO and Company with Fraud for Denying Reputational Impact on Business SeaWorld and two of its former executives, including the CEO, agreed to pay more than $5 million to settle fraud charges. ... September 21, 2018 Client Update SEC Schedules November 15 for Proxy Process Roundtable The SEC announced that the staff will host a roundtable on the proxy process on November 15. The participants, time and t... Load More
October 23, 2018 Client Update Part I of the Key Components in the Commonsense Principles 2.0 – Issuer Responsibilities The Business Roundtable (BRT) and the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) have found common ground in supporting the ...
October 19, 2018 Client Update ISS Proposes Limited Policy Updates for 2019 Related to Board Gender Diversity and Say-on-Pay Secondary Screens Two key, but limited, policy changes for U.S. companies have been proposed by ISS. The open comment period will run throu...
October 18, 2018 Client Update Adding Insult to Injury: SEC Warns That Cyber Incidents May Lead to Enforcement Action On Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a Section 21(a) report of investigation emphasizing the importan...
October 16, 2018 Client Update How Do Retail Shareholders Vote? Retail shareholders own about 30% of public companies, a fairly consistent level over the past five years, but only about ...
October 4, 2018 Client Update CII and ISS Team Up to Oppose House Legislation on Proxy Advisory Firms, Speak for “Real Main Street” Investors Protect the Voice of Shareholders aims to oppose H.R. 4015, the Corporate Governance Reform and Transparency Act, that pas...
October 3, 2018 Client Update State Street to Hold Governance Committees Accountable for Lack of Gender Diversity On the heels of California becoming the first state to impose requirements mandating gender diversity on boards, which we ...
October 1, 2018 Client Update California Enacts Law Requiring Public Company Boards to Include Women On September 30, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill, S.B. 826, which will require all NYSE- and Nasdaq-li...
September 25, 2018 Client Update Davis Polk Submits Comment Letter on the SEC’s Concept Release on Compensatory Security Offerings Under Rule 701 and Form S-8 Davis Polk has submitted a comment letter on the SEC’s Concept Release on Compensatory Securities Offerings under Rule 7...
September 24, 2018 Client Update SEC Charges Former CEO and Company with Fraud for Denying Reputational Impact on Business SeaWorld and two of its former executives, including the CEO, agreed to pay more than $5 million to settle fraud charges. ...
September 21, 2018 Client Update SEC Schedules November 15 for Proxy Process Roundtable The SEC announced that the staff will host a roundtable on the proxy process on November 15. The participants, time and t...