Two Seminal Proxy Cases: Hooray For Our Side:
WA Judge Rules That The Delivery Of Proxies And Proxy Tabulations “Did Not Legally Constitute
Proxy Fights And Activists
What Every Public Company Needs To Know—And Do—If Activists “Reach Out” To Them…With A Cudgel
Following Telephone Voting Missteps Are Your Proxy Chasers Following Smart And Ethical Practices, Much Less “Best Practices” On The Phone?
Reduce your communications with retail investors to the lowest levels the law requires: True friends will really appreciate your thriftiness, no?
En Garde: Proxy Voting Gamesmanship Is Alive And Well
– And Especially “Creative” This Season… Creating Votes Out Of Thin Air
Hundreds Of Companies Will Have Qr Codes On Their Proxy Materials This Year – To Take Voters Straight To Mobile Voting Platforms
At Least Six Companies – Including Gm And Allstate – Will Take Voters Directly To Their Very Own Voting Accounts
Our Primer On The “Proxy Committee Ballot” – And Why You Need To Have One
We have been planning to write this article - and add it to our series on “The Basics” - for a very long time…But midproxy season a reader called to ask, “Do you have a sample of a Master Ballot? My client is engaged in a proxy contest, and I know we need one, but I...Appeals Court Vacates The SEC’s Proxy Access Rule, With Major Criticisms Of The SEC’s Sloppy Work
But Beware Of What You Wished For Issuers….You May Be Worse Off Than With The Access Rule
The STA Slams “Inappropriate Proxy Fees”
Petitions For Regulatory Relief – And Outlines A Proxy Processing “Field Of Dreams”
A Short-List Of Incentives That Might Get More Folks To Vote Their Proxies…
And Save Money On Expensive – And Mostly-Annoying Proxy Solicitation Efforts
Proxy Solicitation – The Next Generation
An Interview With Michael Mackey, President, Alliance Advisors, LLC
Laurel Hill Advisory Group
An Interview With Dr. William J. Catacosinos, Chairman, Laurel Hill Advisory Group
Tumult In The Proxy Solicitation Industry As The “Assets” Take The Elevators Down At Night… And Ride New Ones Up Next Day
Issuers Ask, “Who Moved My Cheese?” And “Who’s Who In This Suddenly Crazy Space?” And “What, If Anything, Should We Be Doing?”
OMG! The Fastest Way To Vote Proxies In 2010 Turns Out To Be Snail-Mail!
This year we are paying much closer attention to the proxy packages we receive than we ever did before. And we know we’re far from alone here, although how carefully most other individual investors will attend to these matters…
“Dofra”, “Dodfra”, “Direct Access” And The “Proxy Plumbing Release”… Get Out Those Plumbers-Helpers Pronto!
Whether you call it “DOFRA” as Pat McGurn calls it, or “DODFRA”, to give Dodd and Frank equal billing, the Dodd-Frank act passed both houses of congress as we were drafting this issue and will likely be law before we go to press.
Meanwhile, Some T-As Agitate To Compete Against Broadridge For Some Of Their Gigantic Proxy Distribution And Tabulation Business; Most, We Think, Have Missed That Boat Entirely:
Long before the Broadridge entry onto T-A-turf – for roughly 20 years in fact – transfer agents have been protesting the “lock” that Broadridge has on the street-side proxy distribution and tabulation business.
Meeting Admission Criteria – One Of This Year’s Hottest Topics
So far this year, we’ve gotten more questions about annual and special meeting admission criteria than about any other topic…except that is, for the perennial question “what’s up with those transfer agents?”
Some “Early Returns” From The Annual Meeting Front:
It’s still early-days as we write this, but a few trends are emerging that seem worth a mention
An Interim Report On Virtual Annual Meetings
Guess what? It’s been nine years since the first “virtual only” annual meeting…at Inforte…
Our 2010 Meeting Season Roundup
What, If Anything, Can We Learn – To Better Prepare For 2011?
Some Notes From The Virtual-Meeting Front
So far this season, there have been 20 “Virtual Shareholder Meetings”: About half were “totally virtual meetings” – held totally in cyberspace – and the rest were so-called “hybrid virtual meetings”
A Recordbreaking Number Of Glitches Cross Our Desk In The Spring 2010 Annual Meeting Season
Indicative, We Think, Of A Serious Level Of “Inattention To Details” And A Serious Industry Brain-Drain
Reaching Out To Investors Via The Proxy Statement
The Optimizer Interviews Dannette Smith, Secretary To The Board Of Unitedhealth Group, Incorporated, The Winner Of Corporate Secretary Magazine’s 2010 Award For Best Proxy Statement
Laurel Hill Advisory Group
An Interview With Dr. William J. Catacosinos, Chairman Of Laurel Hill Advisory Group, LLC And His Senior Colleagues
Key Industry Organizations Totally Miss The Point, We Say… And Don’T Help The Corporate Cause At All…
And Don’t Help The Corporate Cause At All… In Their Actual And “Model Responses” To Proposed Changes In The “Broker May Vote” Rule… Basically Flicking A Finger At The NYSE And Its Proxy Rule Committee
A First-Hand Report From The Intel “Virtual Annual Meeting”… And A Heads Up On The Broadridge Virtual Meeting In November
Your editor had the honor to serve as the Inspector of Election at Intel’s 2009 annual meeting, the first “virtual annual meeting” ever.
