No-Action Letter Citation: Analyzing Excluded Shareholder Proxy Proposals
More than half of all shareholder proxy proposal exclusions allowed by the SEC are based on Rules 14a-8(i)(7) and 14a-8(i)(10), according to research ...
The Impact of Social, Political and Data Privacy Issues on M&A Transactions
Social, political and privacy issues have become increasingly relevant factors in M&A due diligence, according to research and analysis in our new rep...
Analysis of Initial Public Offerings for Companies Valued at $1 Billion or Higher
In the process of assembling our inaugural Unicorn IPO Report, we discovered something surprising. We set out to investigate “unicorn” companies, ...
Impact of Revenue Recognition Standards on Public Companies
U.S.-based public companies are choosing the less onerous (but riskier) of two possible methods for complying with new standards for recognizing reven...
The Cyber Risk Disclosure Groundswell: Corporate Governance Response in the Specter of SEC Oversight
The threat of cybersecurity breaches has evolved from a matter of “if” to “when” for corporations and government entities around the globe. Wh...
The Earnings Call: When Investor Relations Officers Prove Their Worth
The Earnings Call is arguably the single most important point of contact between a public company and the market. A wrong word, phrase or poor explana...