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26 Mar 2009, 9:48 am
"We are actively working on an amendment," Allen said. [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 10:44 am by Ted Allen
 The Senate version of the Dodd-Frank Act included a majority-voting mandate, but that provision was dropped during negotiations over the final version of the law. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 2:08 pm by Ted Allen
While the Dodd-Frank Act mandates shareholder votes on executive compensation, the pay for non-executive directors is not included in that vote. [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 3:51 pm by Ted Allen
"Schapiro’s remarks were not a great surprise, given the large backlog of Dodd-Frank Act rulemaking that the SEC is working on, and the long-running debate among investors and issuers over whether a federal proxy access rule is needed. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 11:57 am by Ted Allen
Barney Frank, the lead House negotiator, has said that 5 percent is too high and that such a hurdle would pose a “major issue” for some House members.International investors have joined the campaign against the Senate proposal. [read post]
7 Jan 2011, 11:19 am by Ted Allen
"The Corporation Finance Division staff had planned to release a staff legal bulletin to clarify the ownership evidence that investors must provide before most of the 2011 proposal filing deadlines, but the staff quietly dropped that project amid its heavy workload of Dodd-Frank Act rulemakings. [read post]
13 Oct 2011, 12:19 pm by Ted Allen
Postseason Report, which includes vote results for meetings held before Sept. 1.The report’s key findings include:During the first year of advisory votes on executive compensation under the Dodd-Frank Act, investors overwhelmingly endorsed companies' pay programs, providing 92.1 percent support on average. [read post]
4 Oct 2010, 1:13 pm by Ted Allen
The Dodd-Frank Act, which was enacted in July, included authorization for the SEC to adopt a proxy access rule, so many SEC observers expected that the commission would move forward to implement the rule after obtaining that legal support.Con Hitchcock, a lawyer for labor funds, observed that the SEC order was "a way to lower the temperature of this debate. [read post]
8 Mar 2019, 5:52 am
Larcker (Stanford University), Charles McClure (University of Chicago), and Christina Zhu (University of Pennsylvania), on Tuesday, March 5, 2019 Tags: Agency costs, Boards of Directors, Executive Compensation, Firm performance, Human capital, Labor markets, Management, Peer groups, Rent-seeking An Early Look at 2019 US Shareholder Proposals Posted by Subodh Mishra, Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc., on Tuesday, March 5, 2019 … [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 1:01 pm by Ted Allen
"The 2,300-page legislation, which is known as the “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act," also would bolster compensation committee independence and require issuers to adopt tougher "clawback" policies and provide new disclosure on internal pay equity. [read post]
27 May 2011, 7:18 am by Ted Allen
The commission still has a significant workload of Dodd-Frank-mandated rulemaking to address, including rules on the disclosure of pay-related proxy votes, compensation committees and consultants, pay disparity ratios and clawback policies, and disclosure of conflict minerals. [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 1:40 pm by Ted Allen
 Investors at Johnson Controls, Costco Wholesale, and Visa also will express their views on pay vote frequency at annual meetings this week.Under the Dodd-Frank Act, U.S. companies must hold a "say on pay" vote and a "say when" frequency vote at their first annual meeting after Jan. 21, except for smaller reporting companies, which will get a two-year exemption from these mandates. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 12:25 pm by Ted Allen
The bill also would excuse these firms from Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Act, which would require disclosure of the ratio between a CEO's total compensation and that of the firm's median employee. [read post]
14 Jan 2011, 7:44 am by Ted Allen
Under the Dodd-Frank Act, companies are required to hold "say on pay" votes at their first annual meeting after Jan. 21, and to ask investors to indicate whether they prefer annual, biennial, or triennial votes. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 4:20 pm by Ted Allen
So far, investors at U.S. issuers are supporting annual advisory votes on compensation by a 2-to-1 margin over a triennial frequency, according to ISS data, which includes vote results from 13 S&P 500 and 31 Russell 3000 companies.Pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act, all large and mid-cap U.S. companies (with meetings after Jan. 21) will have to ask their investors this year to indicate whether they prefer annual, biennial, or triennial votes on compensation. [read post]
6 Sep 2020, 6:04 pm by Francis Pileggi
This post was prepared by Frank Reynolds, who has been following Delaware corporate law, and writing about it for various legal publications, for over 30 years. [read post]
5 May 2011, 3:34 am by Broc Romanek
Impact of Dodd-Frank on States In this podcast, Allen Goolsby of Hunton & Williams discusses how Dodd-Frank has impacted state law, including: - How does Dodd-Frank erode state corporate law? [read post]