A low-cost alternative, if it materializes, may tempt smaller activists—perhaps including better-funded versions of the “issues” activists now plastering corporate boardrooms with various 14a-8 stockholder proposals—to nominate one or two directors to press their concerns in the boardroom.[1] However, Rule 14a-19 does not address the longstanding question of just what information the nominating stockholder should disclose to voting stockholders. [read post]

The Chinese approach much more heavily relies on application through the exercise of administrative discretion guided by the vanguard and its policies. [read post]