Practicing Law Institute (PLI) Forum: Understanding the Securities Laws 2020
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