New Rules for Proxy Advisors Divide Issuers, Investors
Is polarization coming to the financial markets? You might think so after hearing the divided reaction to the SEC’s new rules for proxy advisory fir...
Issuers Go DIY on Environmental Regulation
In a movie from a more innocent age, Tom Cruise, playing sports agent Jerry Maguire, pleads with a self-absorbed client: “Help me help you.”
In...
Six New Lessons from Latest Round of COVID-19 Comment Letters
While the COVID-19 outbreak has left many of us hanging around the house for months, that hasn’t stopped the Securities and Exchange Commission from...
Goldman’s Call for More Board Diversity Bears Early Fruit
When Goldman Sachs speaks, corporations listen. The influential investment bank’s tentacles stretch far and wide across both the global capital mark...
Bill Ackman Prepares Mother of All SPACs
Bill Ackman wants to bag an elephant. The hedge-fund billionaire with the flashy and often successful bets is now getting behind a special purpose acq...
The State of COVID-19 Disclosure, Part III: CARES Act Relief
You did it. You’ve reached the third and final installment of our series on the “state of COVID-19 disclosure.” Previous episodes focused on lan...