Practising Law Institute (PLI) Forum: Understanding the Securities Laws 2022
Partner Gillian Emmett Moldowan participated as a speaker at PLI’s Understanding the Securities Laws 2022 conference in New York. Her discussion is titled “Proxy Solicitations in an Age of Corporate Activism,” and she shared insights relating to:
- Review of the regulatory scheme for proxy solicitations
- Contents of the annual meeting proxy statement
- Revised eligibility requirements and resubmission thresholds for shareholder proposals
- Proxy contests and shareholder activism
- The implications of the adoption of the universal proxy rule
- Proxy statements as communications tools
- Developments in compensation and corporate governance disclosures
- Regulation of proxy advisors