In its long-awaited concept release on the proxy “plumbing” process, the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday sought public comment on making changes to the proxy voting and distribution ...

The bank is launching an in-house, AI-powered tool called Proxy IQ to support its shareholder voting decisions, leaving human ...

At the time of adoption of the new rule amendments, Commissioner Elad Roisman, who had honchoed the proxy-process rulemakings through the SEC, said that there had been growing calls for the SEC to ...

Please join Williams Mullen partners Larry Parker and Will Halliday as they discuss the proxy solicitation process in public company M&A. Companies with a class of securities registered under the ...

On Wednesday, Sept. 16, the SEC was scheduled to hold an open meeting to decide whether to adopt new shareholder resolution filing rules. Late on Tuesday it abruptly, and with no further explanation, ...

Shareholders should be given prompt notice of COVID-19 spurred annual meeting changes, the Securities and Exchange Commission said today. The agency said companies should take actions promptly to ...

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On February 3, 2020, Nasdaq submitted two comment letters supporting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) efforts to improve the proxy process. The first comment letter relates to an ...