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