SEC
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Shareholder advocacy group challenges SpaceX governance ahead of blockbuster $1.75 trn IPO
Alliance to Protect Shareholder Value, a coalition formed in response to the SEC’s new forced shareholder arbitration policy, has emerged as one of the earliest and most vocal critics of SpaceX’s governance model ahead of the company’s planned IPO.
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Beyond the quarter: Rethinking corporate reporting in the US
Amid a growing debate over the future of quarterly reporting, experts are weighing what a slower cadence of disclosure could mean As policymakers and corporate leaders debate the future of quarterly financial reporting in the US, a significant shift looms over how public companies communicate with investors and how they are held accountable. Beginning in 1970, the US has required its public companies to report its earnings every three months. Any previous attempts to cut this back has been met with opposition from shareholders and industry groups who argue that the changes could threaten transparency and market volatility. This time…
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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 central importance to investors in 2025. ‘You had large institutional investors like State Street and proxy advisors like Glass Lewis both stating that they would vote against or recommend voting against directors on boards in companies that were not 30 percent gender diverse,’ she said.…
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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.
