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SEC Staff Issues Legal Bulletin Announcing Changes to Shareholder Proposal Review Process During the 2025 Proxy Season
On February 12, 2025, the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the ...
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A New Chapter for the SEC: A Philosophical Shift on Shareholder Engagement, Shareholder Proposals, and ESG
Only a short time has elapsed since President Trump named Mark T. Uyeda as Acting Chair of the Securities and Exchange ...
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New SEC shareholder proposal guidance divides business, investor groups
McGannon’s alarm stems from a new piece of guidance issued by the SEC’s division of corporation finance, related to ...
Proxy advisory firms are faking their DEI rollback
The withdrawal from DEI by Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis, two major proxy advisory firms, is not what it seems.
How Oklahoma treasurer is using state's tobacco trust to challenge Amazon, Netflix DEI policies
The treasurer said Oklahoma, through TSET, will place resolutions before investors at those companies’ annual shareholder meetings ...
Kraft Heinz Proxy Statement Draws Delaware Justices' Concern (1)
The Delaware Supreme Court appeared uneasy Wednesday at the possibility that an allegedly false Kraft Heinz Co. proxy ...
Companies may be rolling back their diversity policies but investors keep voting down anti-DEI shareholder proposals
This week, shareholders at Apple and John Deere voted against anti-DEI propositions by a margin of 97.3% and 98.7% ...