For many years, one of the fundamental goals of shareholder rights activists has “proxy access,” which would require corporations to include shareholder nominated board candidates on the company’s proxy ballots. Last year, in the wake of the Dodd-Frank Act, the SEC promulgated rules facilitating shareholder director nominations under certain circumstances. However, on July 22, 2011
Proxy Access
Corporate Governance Perspective: Current Bearings, Future Directions
By Kevin LaCroix on
Posted in Corporate Governance
Largely (although not exclusively) driven by last summer’s enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act, we have entered a watershed period of corporate governance reform. Processes already now afoot have wrought a transformation in the relations between corporate boards and corporate shareholders. Even further changes lie ahead. In this post, I take a look at where we…