Evan Epstein’s Boardroom Governance podcast provides insights from leading corporate governance experts in a long-form conversation format. This week’s episode focuses on the proxy advisory landscape, and features an interview with Nichol Garzon-Mitchell, Senior Vice [...]
Guerdon Associates and CGI Glass Lewis held their twelfth annual Governance and Remuneration Forum in Sydney on 7 March and Perth on 12 March. Whereas the 2017 Forum was the product of the breakdown of [...]
The incoming Dutch government has finally released its agenda – and it includes a range of measures aiming to push back the influence that “certain activist investors”, defined as being "mainly focused on short term [...]
As discussed in our prior post, SGX has sought input from stakeholders on possibly allowing issuers to adopt dual class share (“DCS”) structures for newly listed issuers. SGX set out a “straw man” proposal on [...]
Co-sponsored by CGI Glass Lewis and Guerdon Associates, the 9th Annual Governance & Remuneration Forums will take place on 5 March in Melbourne and 9 March in Perth. Registration is now open for institutional investors, [...]
Bob McCormick, Chief Policy Officer, and David Eaton, Vice President of Proxy Research, were both recently named to the 2012 National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Directorship 100 which annually recognizes the most influential leaders [...]
The conviction of former Polly Peck International plc chairman and CEO, Asil Nadir, is a reminder of the importance of effective governance, and of just how far best practices have come over the past two [...]
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (“NOAA”), July 2012 was the hottest month on record for the contiguous United States. Not only was July the hottest month, but as a whole, precipitation totals [...]
Chesapeake Energy shareholders have a new set of directors. They might also have a new set of governance problems. In a June 27th Form 8-K, Chesapeake announced the resignations of directors Richard Davidson—who did not [...]