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SEC Formally Withdraws Various Proposed Rules

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives on 6/16/2025

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) formally withdrew the following proposed Gensler era rulemakings: Substantial Implementation, Duplication, and Resubmission of Shareholder Proposals Under Exchange Act Rule...more

SEC Proposes to Narrow Bases for Excluding Shareholder Proposals

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP on 8/9/2022

On July 13, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed rule changes that would make it harder for reporting companies to exclude shareholder proposals from their proxy statement by narrowing certain existing...more

SEC Revisits Shareholder Proposal Rule

WilmerHale on 7/26/2022

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently revisited two proxy-related matters by (a) adopting amendments to the proxy rules governing proxy voting advice and (b) proposing amendments to the shareholder proposal rule in...more

SEC Proposes Amendments to Shareholder Proposal Rule

Vedder Price on 12/10/2019

On November 5, 2019, the SEC issued a release proposing amendments to Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which is the rule that governs the process through which shareholders may submit proposals to be...more

SEC Proposes Updates to Shareholder Proposal Rules and Proxy Voting Advice Regime

Jones Day on 12/3/2019

The Situation: As part of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's ("SEC") continued focus on reforming the proxy process, the SEC proposed new amendments to modernize the shareholder proposal rule, Rule 14a-8 of the...more

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