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SEC Adopts Amendments to Rules Governing Proxy Voting Advice

The 2022 Amendments have removed the requirements that call for proxy advisory firms claiming an exemption from proxy filing rules.

SEC Proposes Amendments to Proxy Solicitation and Shareholder ...

recommendations of proxy advisory firms to be solicitations under the SEC's proxy rules. Proxy advisory firms, however, typically rely on Rules ...

SEC Rescinds Certain Rules Governing Proxy Voting Advice

On July 13, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) voted to adopt certain amendments to its rules governing proxy voting ...

SEC Reverses Aspects of Proxy Voting Advice Regulations

On June 13, 2022, the SEC voted to adopt amendments to the rules governing proxy voting advice provided by proxy advisory firms. The 2022 ...

SEC Amends Rules Governing Proxy Voting Advice

The 2022 Amendments rescind prior conditions a proxy advisory firm (PAF) must meet to be exempt from the proxy rules' information and filing requirements.

Judge tosses SEC rule establishing proxy advice as solicitation

A judge has agreed with Institutional Shareholder Services, vacating part of an SEC rule that stipulated proxy-voting advice constitutes a ...

The SEC's Proxy Advisory Firm Disclosure Reforms - CRS Reports

In July 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission. (SEC) adopted controversial amendments to its proxy rules implemented pursuant to the ...

That was quick! SEC reverses key elements of 2020 amendments to ...

As discussed in our July 24, 2020 client alert, the SEC amended the proxy rules to establish a framework for proxy advisors such as ISS and ...

SEC Adopts Amendments to Proxy Voting Advice Regulations

On July 13, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) finalized rule amendments (the “Amendments”), proposed in November 2021 ...

Business Roundtable Public Comments to SEC on Amendments to ...

Proxy advisors should publicly disclose final voting reports and custom reports 90 days after a shareholder meeting to allow for analysis of the ...

SEC Approves Proxy Voting Advice Amendments & Investment ...

Increase material conflicts of interest disclosure requirements for proxy advisory firms to clients. • Allow companies that are the subject of ...

SEC Adopts Rules for Proxy Voting Advisory Firms, Issues ...

Proxy advisory firms will not be required to comply with the new rules until December 1, 2021, so that the 2022 proxy season will be the first ...

Investor Alert: SEC's Amendment to Proxy-Advisory Rules a Win for ...

As such, under the 2020 Rules, institutional investors and proxy-advisory firms expressed concerns as to the independence of the investor's vote ...

SEC proposes amendments to proxy rules applying to proxy ...

In August, the SEC issued guidance stating that in its interpretation, the voting advice communications from proxy advisory firms are generally ...

SEC Partially Rescinds Its Rules Relating to the Provision of Proxy ...

The 2022 Amendments become effective on September 19, 2022. They rescind most – but not all – of the changes made to rules adopted by the SEC in ...

District Court Vacates SEC's Proxy Advisory Rule - Dechert LLP

After the change of administrations in 2021, the SEC amended this rule in 2022 to rescind the latter two conditions. Decision. The court held ...

SEC Adopts Proxy Voting Guidance - The National Law Review

The Amendments will become effective 60 days after publication in the Federal Register, but affected proxy advisory firms that are subject to ...

SEC Adopts Amendments to Proxy Solicitation Rules and Issues ...

the proxy advisory firm's electronic ... The amendments will become effective 60 days following their publication in the Federal Register.

SEC Adopts Final Rules on Proxy Voting Advice | 07 | 2020

The amendments will be effective 60 days after publication in the Federal Register, with the exception of the new procedures outlined in Rule ...

The Investment Lawyer - Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

posed amendments to its rules governing proxy vot- ing advice ... proxy advisory firms (2020 Final Rules).4 The 2020. Final Rules, among ...