SEC Proxy Guidance in Limbo
Score one for free speech?
If you’ve been following the back-and-forth, you’ll recall that influential shareholder adviser Institutional Shareh...
CEO Dismissals Reflect Diverging Approaches to Transparency
What does it mean for a CEO to exercise “conduct inconsistent with a non-financial company policy”? If your eyes glazed over at that euphemistic l...
Research Says Disclosure Offers Cover for Questionable Accounting
Public financial reporting involves an inherent tension between accurately portraying the condition of a company and the pressure to meet the expectat...
Fast-Rising Risk Factors Offer Signs of the Times
If you really want to understand America, you could travel our highways. You could watch our movies, read our newspapers, or talk to people in diners....
The Proxy Adviser Strikes Back
It’s one of the defining conflicts in corporate governance today: the attempt to constrain the behavior of public companies by non-governmental “s...
“Test-the-Waters” Rule Lets Companies Dip a Toe in IPOs
It has been a rough year for IPOs, as highly touted offerings keep flopping. Ride-sharing service Uber Technologies Inc. has seen its stock price fall...