As part of our blog series based on this great panel – featuring WilmerHale’s Lily Brown and Edward Jones’ Keir Gumbs – here’s a blog that addresses the question of: “When you are in charge of a disclosure team, what…
One challenge that sometimes happens as part of a company’s drafting process is when the compensation group is working off kilter a little bit from the rest of the drafting team.
The problem arises due to a timing difference. The…
As part of our blog series based on this great panel – featuring WilmerHale’s Lily Brown and Edward Jones’ Keir Gumbs – here’s a blog that addresses the question of: “When you are in charge of a disclosure team, what…
If you’ve been following the nifty “comment letter tracker” for the SEC’s semiannual reporting proposal put together by Professor Tzachi Zach, you can see that the number of comments are very high – and that a large percentage of comment…
This paper by Professors Jonathan Macey and Nathan Atkinson – “Mirroring The Market: Passive Voting And Outcome Non-Neutrality” – argues that current mirror-voting proposals are not truly neutral. Uniform mirroring inadvertently lowers voting thresholds and subsidizes quorums. The authors propose…
I’ve been around long enough to witness the advent of personal computers, emails, the Internet and cell phones – and now we have AI to contend with. Each has had a number of mind-blowing consequences for corporate culture. Still, I…
This memo from PwC’s Matt DiGuiseppe, Gregory Johnson and Ariel Smilowitz argues that the new shareholder engagement paradigm is more complex than before – and that directors and shareholders will be engaging more directly going forward. Here’s the related set…
Recently, I asked Freshfields’ Pam Marcogliese, DLA Piper’s Sanjay Shirodkar, and Compensia’s Mark Borges the question of “Do you ever get any personal satisfaction from drafting disclosure that you consider to be good?” Here’s a summary of their answers from…
