Annual Meeting Season is Here – Are You Ready?

Get the full transcript from the April 2, 2025, webinar hosted by TheCorporateCounsel.net: “Conduct of the Annual Meeting” As corporate governance continues to evolve in response to shifting regulatory landscapes and rising shareholder expectations, now is the time to...

Institutional Investors Promise To Monitor And Act On VSMs That Short-Circuit Investor Participation

As the big Spring Shareholder Meeting Season begins we want to renew our warnings that “Big Brother is watching” – and rightly so, we say - to be sure that all shareholders are given a fair chance - not just to listen passively, but to be HEARD at VSMs – AND that they...

Awful Advice On VSMs From A Big T-A: Take It At Your Peril

In the run-up to the annual podcast covering “The Conduct of the Annual Meeting,” a prospective attendee wrote in to ask if they could pre-record their entire Meeting, and to answer only pre-recorded questions, saying that their transfer agent (one of the biggest...

Big-Company Proxy Fights – Back In A Big Way… Small And Micro-Cap Fights Look To Surge In 2024 … Anti-ESG Proposals Expected To Surge Too…Hostile Takeovers Are Back

The 2024 Annual Meeting Season and the Big-Company Proxy Fight Season is off to a roaring start – with Nelson Peltz of Trian back yet again at Disney with a big new backer, major investor Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter, whom Disney fired not so long aga… And even before...

OUR TOP TIPS ON CHOOSING A PROXY SOLICITOR

It’s been a long time since we last shared our top tips on choosing a proxy solicitation/proxy advisory firm…And wow…the industry has changed a lot since then…not least in terms of the specific “talent” that each firm has on board, as noted above…which, please note well, is the number-one thing that proxy firms have to offer.

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