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Return to Sender: The DOJ Withdraws a Decades-Old Letter to a Proxy Advisor

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For nearly four decades, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) held a piece of paper most public companies would envy: a 1987 business review letter from the U.S. Department of Justice saying the government had no plans to challenge its...

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SEC Overturns Curbs on Influence of Proxy Advisors

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Proxy advisory firms weren’t particularly popular with the Securities and Exchange Commission during the previous presidential administration. Quite the opposite, in fact, as the SEC passed rules in 2020 designed to blunt the influence of f...

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