SEC
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What can you do when the US Government becomes a shareholder in your company?
When the Trump administration announced it would take a 10 percent stake in Intel to securitize the government’s funding of the company under the CHIPS Act, the markets were stunned. Many questioned this new course, asked how effective the government could be at owning stocks and wondered how the administration could help or hinder Intel. Moreover, how would US taxpayers benefit?
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How the SEC’s ‘pendulum swing’ has realigned rules with market realities this proxy season
DE&I, ESG proposals trends and regulatory changes take center stage at Governance Intelligence briefing How is the proxy season evolving? During a recent Governance Intelligence briefing on Lessons from the 2025 Proxy Season – held in partnership with BetaNXT – Amanda Thrash, senior counsel and assistant corporate secretary at The Williams Companies, said that DE&I issues were still of […]
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SEC nixes 14a-8 guidance that widened path for ESG proposals
The SEC has dropped guidance on the parameters by which companies may seek go-ahead to exclude shareholder proposals from their proxy statements.
