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Category: ESG

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SpaceX Goes Where No Issuer Has Gone Before

SpaceX Dragon satellite orbiting Earth

Elon Musk has never had much patience for corporate governance conventions, and SpaceX’s anticipated IPO only underlines the point. According to a Reuters report, SpaceX’s bylaws would require shareholders to “irrevocably and unconditionall...

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Companies Take Different Routes on Tariff Adjustments to Exec Pay

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Tariffs didn’t just hit company earnings last year. They also hit the performance metrics that determine executive bonuses. This has forced compensation committees to make uncomfortable calls about whether to ignore the impact of tariffs in...

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Regulators and Companies Lining Up Against DEI, ESG Programs

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It wasn’t long ago that “DEI” and “ESG” were standard acronyms in the corporate lexicon. Major institutional investors prodded companies to commit to sustainability initiatives. Brand names amplified messages to the public about their dedic...

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SEC Sets New Limits on Exempt Solicitations

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Activist investors have seen better days. In the latest policy shift affecting shareholder activists, new guidance indicates the Securities and Exchange Commission now opposes publishing so-called exempt solicitations from stockholders who...

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Intelligize Report Tackles Challenges of Regulatory Fragmentation

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Compliance for thee, but not for me. That’s one way to characterize the stance of U.S. companies and policymakers versus their EU counterparts. Take the matter of foreign insider disclosures, for instance. Foreign companies that raise capit...

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