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2017 Proxy Season: Say-on-Pay Frequency Post-Mortem

Winston & Strawn LLP
USA
July 28 2017

This past proxy season, most public companies that held their first shareholder votes on the frequency of the advisory "say-on-pay" vote in 2011 were

Potential Impact of Financial CHOICE Act on Corporate Governance and SEC Reporting and Disclosure Requirements

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP
USA
June 9 2017

On June 8, 2017, the House of Representatives passed, by a 233-186 vote (with all Democrats and one Republican voting against), the Financial CHOICE

Proxy Access in Canada -- Another US Corporate Law Practice Makes Its Way Up North

McMillan LLP
Canada, USA
May 17 2017

An old debate in corporate law is about the role, and control, of shareholders over the managers of their companies. Some romanticise this notion and

New Pubcos Should Consider Defensive Health in Light of ISSGL Recommendations

Cooley LLP
USA
May 17 2017

ISS and Glass Lewis are continuing to apply special scrutiny to certain corporate governance provisions of "newly public" companies (generally

Smart contracts for finance parties

Allen & Overy LLP
Global
May 3 2017

A smart contract is a set of promises, agreed between parties and encoded in software, which, when criteria are met, are performed automatically. The

Elections: Whose Voice is Really Heard?

UK Immigration Solicitors
European Union, United Kingdom, USA
April 25 2017

It’s fair to say that these past two years have been busy on the elections front. It started with the General Election 2015, in which we were promised

Draft Financial Choice Act 2.0 Prohibits Universal Proxy and Restricts Shareholder Proposals

Stinson Leonard Street LLP
USA
April 20 2017

The House Financial Services Committee has released a discussion draft of a revised Financial Choice Act. The Committee will hold a hearing on the Act

Shareholder proposal process in the crosshairs

Cooley LLP
USA
April 20 2017

In February, we saw a memo from Jeb Hensarling, Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, to the Committee’s Leadership Team outlining the

Canada’s first look at proxy access shareholder proposals

DLA Piper
Canada
April 20 2017

Shareholders of the Toronto-Dominion Bank (“TD Bank”) and the Royal Bank of Canada (“RBC”) voted in the last few weeks on shareholder proposals made

Shareholders divided on proxy access

Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Canada, USA
April 7 2017

Over the past week, a shareholder proposal requesting that the board of directors take steps to adopt a "proxy access" by-law was considered at the

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