Nov 19, 2024 | 2024, Annual Meetings, Q3, Virtual Meetings
“Shareholders promoting both progressive and conservative agendas say companies are increasingly trying to limit their voices at annual shareholder meetings—the one day of the year when boards are required to hear from the people who own their companies,” a recent...
Nov 19, 2024 | 2024, Issues, Q3, Transfer Agents
We wish we could say that we were shocked to read the long list of shocking findings by the SEC against Equiniti Trust Company, formerly known as American Stock Transfer & Trust Company. But readers, we have been very regularly warning transfer agents – and...
Nov 2, 2024 | 2024, Annual Meetings, Issues, Q3
WILL BAD AUDITOR GRADES SPILL OVER TO YOUR AGM? PREPARE NOW, WE SAY We were greatly encouraged by remarks from the recently reorganized PCAOB board leadership promising much greater scrutiny of public company auditors and a much stronger focus on the number of audit...
Nov 2, 2024 | 2024, Issues, Q3
Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to Citi CEO Jane Fraser as she struggles to rein-in the wild and reckless horse that Citi had become after more than a decade of ‘deferred maintenance’ on its key operating systems and their internal controls. But OUCH! As...
Nov 2, 2024 | 2024, Annual Meetings, Issues, Q3
A truly Blue-Ribbon Panel of Experts, Chaired by Broc Romanek, hits the streets just as public companies begin to jumpstart their AGM pre-planning activities and, ideally, to anticipate, and proactively address the most important issues that will be on the minds of...
