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Tag: Shareholder Proposals

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Look, No Hands: The 2026 Proxy Season After the SEC’s No-Action Pullback

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When the 2026 proxy season opened, corporate secretaries braced for the usual scramble over which shareholder proposals had to appear on the ballot and which could be left off. What most of them no longer had was the referee they had leaned...

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Corporate Governance Rockets to Top of Shareholder Concerns

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX pulled off a record-setting IPO on June 11, but the debut had at least one pre-launch hiccup. The day before SpaceX went public, index provider MSCI assigned the much-discussed rocket maker a CCC rating—the lowest grade o...

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SEC Weighs in on Tariff Accounting, Just in Time

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Public companies have been asking a critical question since tariffs started reshaping their cost structures, which has largely gone unanswered: how are we supposed to account for all of this? Fortunately, they just received the closest thin...

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SEC’s Stance on Shareholder Proposals Drawing Mixed Reviews

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Last November, the Securities and Exchange Commission essentially told companies they would be on their own when it comes to decisions about excluding shareholder proposals from their proxy statements. The new approach is receiving a mixed...

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Year in Review: Five Key Themes in Corporate Governance for 2025

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As 2025 entered its waning months, a handful of topics kept resurfacing on this blog. They reflected the ways in which companies were genuinely reshaping how they think about governance, disclosure and risk. Here’s a look back at five of th...

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