Between health and safety concerns, economic uncertainty and a heightened focus on social justice, businesses are tackling new human capital challenges and initiatives this year and into the future. This is important to consider as [...]
On December 28, 2018 the Spanish government approved Law 11/2018, which transposes EU Directive 2014/95/EU on disclosure of non-financial and diversity information into Spanish law. The new law amends the Spanish Commercial Code by specifying [...]
In mid-June, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) held its 2018 Latin American Corporate Governance Roundtable. Regulators, policy-makers, investors, market participants (and Glass Lewis) flew in from all over the region, and from [...]
For a number of years, investors have pushed companies to enhance disclosure of their corporate political spending activities. Now, a bill re-introduced by New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is aimed at mandating this disclosure. While not necessarily [...]
Regulations proposed by the Texas State Legislature would mark a blow to shareholder rights, subjecting investors, proxy advisors and other shareholder support firms to unprecedented disclosure requirements, and potentially serving to reverse the recent expansion [...]
On October 31, 2016, Glass Lewis submitted a letter to the SEC in response to an August 25, 2016 request for comment on the disclosure requirements covered under Subpart 400 of Regulation S-K. The items [...]
Signs of trouble were already brewing in late January when Glass Lewis issued its Proxy Paper for the February 22 annual meeting of Novartis. In our report, we criticized Novartis’ exceptionally poor disclosure of a [...]