Annual Meeting Security
Our Top 10 Tips For A Safe And Orderly Meeting
Proxy Fights: Our Top 10 Tips For Coping Effectively
What Every Public Company Need To Know And Do If Activists “Reach Out To Them”.
Annual Meeting Site Selections
What You Need To Know – And Do
Rules And Procedures For The Conduct Of Annual Stockholder Meetings
XYZ Corporation welcomes you to its 20th Annual Meeting of Stockholders. In fairness to all stockholders in attendance, and in order to provide stockholders an opportunity to be heard – and in the interest of conducting an orderly meeting, within a reasonable time period – we require you to honor the following rules of conduct:
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...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?”
These May Be Our Top-Tips Ever On How To Guarantee A More “Civil” Annual Meeting
Last year, we attended the meeting of a long-term client where we were shocked! Shocked!…to see more women wearing hats and gloves – and more men carrying hats – than we have seen in one place since the 1950s.
Data Security… Maybe The Hottest Topic Around These Days: What Should You Be Asking About… And Doing?
IT’S HIGH-TIME YOU RE-CHECKED THE DATA-SECURITY AT YOUR VENDORS, the Optimizer warned, in our second-quarter 2005 issue, following a truly startling cluster of major data-breaches at companies like BofA, Choice Point, Citicorp and Wachovia…and where we offered a long checklist of points to check on.
