Corporate governance - Vigil

SAN FRANCISCO - Activist investor Ancora Advisors is stepping up the pressure on photo sharing service Shutterfly to negotiate a sale of the company or res

Effective February 19, 2016, the New York Stock Exchange LLC (“NYSE”) adopted a new rule to the NYSE Listed Company Manual (the “Manual”).

On February 12, 2016, the Staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued responses to 18 no-action requests from issuers that sought to omit proxy access shareholder proposals from their proxy materials on the ground that they had substantially implemented the proposal under Rule 14a-8(i)(10). [1] The Staff granted no-action relief to 15 companies but denied relief to three companies whose proxy access bylaw provisions contained a higher eligibility threshold than that requested in the shareholder proposal.

Assessing a target's data assets isn't something to leave until after the transaction is completed. Here's what you need to know for M&A due diligence.

This post provides a 5 year review and evaluation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) which was established under the Dodd-Frank Act. The Dodd-Frank Act and the CFPB were a response to the financial and economic crisis that began in 2007.

The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (“CISA”) was signed into law on December 18, 2015. The law has two main components. First, it authorizes companies to monitor and implement defensive measures on their own information systems to counter cyber threats.

Two shareholders of United ContinentalHoldings Inc said they had nominated six new directorsto the company's board in a push to improve the company'sgovernance and performance.

SEC Protects the 2%. QUALCOMM violates Rule 14a-4(a)(3) with SEC complicity to fool shareholders into not voting for more robust proxy access.

ABS Vegas is a unique conference, bringing together issuers, investors, credit rating agencies, law firms, accounting firms, and other service providers. A properly functioning securitization market requires robust participation from all involved. Listening to the comments from a number of the panelists at this conference has been quite enlightening and I particularly appreciate the fact that diverse points of views are represented.

Proxy executive compensation and Compensation Discussion & Analysis (CD&A) disclosure is principally based upon a one-year look back at executive compensation forms, levels, policies, and practices. In addition, the proxy tables and schedules which disclose the historical pay forms and levels for the Named Executive Officers (NEOs) are fixed in format and do not allow for any flexibility in reporting NEO compensation beyond that which is prescribed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In recent years, several “one-time” best practices in CD&A disclosure have emerged as current common practice—executive summaries in the CD&A including summary of philosophy, pay design, governance practices, and CEO pay versus performance; use of realizable or realized pay; and expanded disclosure of individual pay decisions.