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Governance Insights: Trends and Developments in Diversity

Davies Governance Insights analyzes the top trends and issues most important to Canadian public companies and provides practical guidance for boards to meet these challenges head on. In the 2020 edition of Davies...more

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Court Of Appeal Declines To "Sit On" Board Diversity Judgment

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In July, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber filed a petition for a writ of supersedeas in the California Court of Appeal with respect to the trial court's judgment in Crest v. Padilla.  In that case, the trial court...more

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Does Improving CalPERS' Returns Justify State Mandated Discrimination?

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We may learn as early as today whether a pending constitutional challenge to AB 979 will be going to trial in May.  AB 979 is California's law requiring publicly held domestic and foreign corporations having their principal...more

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Legislator Proposes To Expand Definition of "Director From An Underrepresented Community"

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Enacted in 2020, AB 979 requires publicly held domestic or foreign corporations having their principal executive offices in California to have specified minimum numbers of directors from "underrepresented communities".  Cal....more

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Nasdaq Proposes Board Diversity Rules

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On December 1, 2020, Nasdaq filed a proposal with the SEC to adopt Rules 5605(f) and 5606 regarding board diversity and board composition disclosure, respectively. Nasdaq believes that these new rules, if approved by the SEC,...more

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Is it Time to Appoint a New Director? Five Corporate Governance Considerations for Board Members

Regardless of size or industry, thoughtful director appointment is critical to the success of any public company. Yet following the departure of a director, many boards are left scrambling to locate and onboard a suitable...more

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Blog: Nontraditional board candidates made headway in 2017

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According to a new report from the EY Center for Board Matters, 54% of the 2017 class of directors of Fortune 100 companies served in non-CEO roles and 40% were female. More than half of the Fortune 100 added at least one...more

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Blog: PwC’s 2017 Annual Corporate Directors Survey shows directors “clearly out of step” with institutional investors on social...

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In its Annual Corporate Directors Survey for 2017, PwC surveyed 886 directors of public companies and concluded that there is a “real divide” between directors and institutional investors (which own 70% of U.S. public...more

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Blog: State Street Global Advisors Talks The Talk On Board Gender Diversity, But Will It Walk The Walk?

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Happy International Women’s Day! In this press release, State Street Global Advisors, which manages $2.47 trillion in assets, announced, on the eve of International Women’s Day, that it is “calling on the more than 3,500...more

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ISS Announces Rebranded Governance Rating System and New Factors

ISS has announced the adoption of QualityScore, a benchmark of corporate governance. QualityScore was previously known as QuickScore, and before that by the monikers “GRId” and “CGQ.” For US companies, the following is a...more

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Blog: Some Successful Approaches To Increasing Board Gender Diversity

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A lot has been written about the benefits of gender diversity on boards. As discussed in Bloomberg, while “[e]quality is a worthy goal on its own terms, of course….for the corporate world, the better rationale for gender...more

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Blog: 2016 Global Board Of Directors Survey Highlights Differences In Viewpoints Between Male And Female Directors, Particularly...

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The inaugural 2016 Global Board of Directors Survey of more than 4,000 directors of both public and large, privately held companies from 60 countries conducted by Spencer Stuart, the WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD) Foundation...more

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