Overview
On March 21, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved a rule proposal for new climate change disclosure requirements for both U.S. public companies and foreign private issuers. Read More »
SEC Staff Announces Significant Changes to Shareholder Proposal No-Action Letter Process
On September 6, 2019, the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff") of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC") announced[1] two significant procedural changes for responding to Exchange Act Rule 14a-8 no-action requests that will be applicable beginning with the 2019-2020 shareholder proposal season: Read More »
SEC August 21 Open Meeting To Address Issues Related To Proxy Advisory Firms
The SEC announced that it will hold an open meeting on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 at 10:00 AM eastern time. There are two matters on the agenda, available here, which, although not specifically referring to proxy advisory firms, appear to address reliance on voting recommendations issued by such firms, and the conditions such firms must satisfy to rely on an exemption from the proxy rules. Read More »
SEC Corp Fin Staff Releases New Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations on Proxy Rules and Schedules 14A/14C
On May 11, the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) released new Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (“C&DIs”) regarding the proxy rules and Schedules 14A and 14C. These C&DIs replace the Staff’s previous interpretations published in the Proxy Rules and Schedule 14A Manual of Publicly Available Telephone Interpretations and the March 1999 Supplement to the Manual of Publicly Available Telephone Interpretations (collectively, the “Telephone Interpretations”). Read More »
