Wrapping my three-part series of blogs about board and committee meeting minutes practices (see Part 1 and Part 2 about minutes before and during the meeting), here are some practices to consider in your minute-taking routine after the board or committee meeting:
The SEC recently published the updated version of its EDGAR Filer Manual that includes updates related to filing Forms 144 electronically on EDGAR, as required by the SEC’s final rules adopted back in June. This means the clock on the 6-month transition period from paper to electronic filings of Forms 144 is ticking—all Forms 144
Continuing my three-part series of blogs about board and committee meeting minutes practices (see Part 1 about what to do before the meeting), here are some practices to consider in your minute-taking routine during the board or committee meeting:
This is the first of a series of three blogs about board minutes. Keeping accurate, concise minutes of the meetings of your board and board committees is one of the more important responsibilities of a corporate secretary. Minutes have long been important to help protect a board from claims of fiduciary duty failures, and the
Earlier this year, BlackRock announced that it has expanded its Voting Choice program (pass-through voting) to BlackRock clients representing nearly half (47%) of its index equity assets globally, and that it plans to expand that program to all individual investors in its index funds. Now might be the time to start thinking about pass-through voting
A question we sometimes hear from clients during proxy season is whether to include the name of the proponent in the proxy statement with a shareholder proposal made under Rule 14a-8. Rule 14a-8(l) allows a company to decide whether to include information in the proxy statement on a proponent (name, address, and number of shares