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...

Troubling News For Corporate Governance Professionals from Broadridge’s 2023 Review

Expectations of directors are increasing. Fewer directors stood for election this past season (23,829) than in 2022 season, but more failed to attain majority support (654) than at any time in the last 5 years. Support has declined for Say-on-Pay. 131 say-on-pay...

New Action Expected In The Drive For “Universal Ballots”: An SEC “Tilt” To Favor Activism? We Say It Does Not

“SEC Chief Tilts Again to Activists” the WSJ headline screamed, on page-1 of the June 26 Money & Investing section, reporting on Chairman Mary Jo Wight’s remarks at the Society of Corporate Secretaries conference where she endorsed the universal ballot idea, and urged companies to adopt one voluntarily in a proxy fight…”

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