Similar to the proposed amendments originally issued by the SEC in November 2019, the SEC’s adopting release echoes some of the concerns expressed by both issuers and investors regarding the lack of ...

In 2018, robust U.S. and global M&A activity substantially mitigated the downside risk for activist investors. With political uncertainty ahead of the 2020 presidential election, unsettled questions ...

BENTONVILLE, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) today issued its 2019 Annual Report and filed its Proxy Statement in preparation for the company’s upcoming Annual Shareholders’ Meeting on ...

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Innisfree has been named the top proxy solicitor in 2019 by four leading publications. For the fifth consecutive year, Corporate Control Alert ranked Innisfree as the ...

It’s hard to believe we are getting into proxy season 2019. Where does the time go? Washington started the year with a “screeching” halt, and now, the beltway is breathing a sigh of relief that ...

Registration to vote in person and by post in the December 12 election has closed now, as polling stations begin to prepare for hundreds of thousands of citizens to descend and have their democratic ...

A debate is raging in Washington among financial regulators, lawmakers, trade associations, public company CEOs, academics and investment advisors over how to regulate an important industry many ...

While the 2019 proxy season did not feature any dramatic developments, an interesting element was the slight but noticeable growth of the nascent movement against the use of environmental, social, and ...

It's Time to Fix the Proxy Process! John Zecca, Senior Vice President, General Counsel North America, and Chief Regulatory Officer of Nasdaq Regulation for U.S. Markets, advocates for these key ...

PROXY ADVISORY services used to be an obscure feature of corporate America. No longer. These geeky outfits, which review mountains of proposals put forward by shareholders on topics ranging from ...