This Thought Piece highlights examples of certain key disclosures that the proxy advisory firms want to see after a low say-on[1]pay vote.
While some of the following examples are from proxy statements published by companies after a low say-on-pay score, others are from companies that publish these “best practice” disclosures as a matter of course.
The new pay versus performance rule is foremost in the minds of public companies as they prepare for their upcoming proxy statement. But don’t lose sight of other areas where investors and regulators will be paying particular attention this proxy season. Below we discuss topics where we’ve seen considerable focus.
In March 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed new rules to enhance and standardize disclosures regarding cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident reporting by public companies. This thought pieces discusses these proposed rules and gives examples of corporate cybersecurity disclosures to date.
In this thought piece we explore Nasdaq’s new Board Diversity Rules, similar Board diversity recommendations and requirements in the United States (U.S.), and examples of Board diversity disclosures in 2021 proxy statements.
This Thought Piece presents letters from leadership across investor communications from the proxy statement to the annual report and sustainability/CSR/ESG report.
This Executive Summary presents a high-level overview of letters from leadership across the investor communications spectrum from the proxy statement to the annual report and sustainability/ESG/CSR reports.
This Executive Summary presents a high-level overview of how reporting practices around board skills have changed over the last two years.
In this Thought Piece, we take a detailed look at the evolving skills reporting practices of those companies that received the NYC Comptroller and NYC Pension Funds National Boardroom Accountability Project Campaign in 2017.
This Thought piece by Argyle and King & Spalding highlights notable corporate governance and board leadership disclosure trends from the 2020 proxy season.
This Thought Piece prepared by Argyle and King & Spalding takes a look at executive compensation disclosure trends in contemporary proxy statements.
