Partner Gillian Emmett Moldowan (New York – Compensation, Governance & ERISA) participated as a speaker at PLI’s Understanding the Securities Laws 2020 conference in New York. Her discussion is titled “Proxy Solicitations in an Age of Corporate Activism,” and she spoke about:

• Review of the regulatory scheme for proxy solicitations
• Contents of the annual meeting proxy statement
• Takeaways from the initial season of the SEC’s new protocol for handling shareholder proposals
• Proxy contests and shareholder activism
• Proxy statements as communications tools: an update on formatting and presentation
• Developments in compensation and corporate governance disclosures
• Regulation of proxy advisors