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ISS Releases 2025 Policy Survey

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Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) recently released its Annual Benchmark Policy Survey (the "Policy Survey"). In keeping with its prior practice, ISS seeks responses from institutional shareholders, issuers,...more

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New ISS 2021 Factors for Governance QualityScore Address Investor Hot Topics

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ISS recently released updated methodology for its Governance QualityScore (GQS) rating system for institutional investors. The new factors relate to areas of emerging concern to investors, with 11 of the 17 new factors...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

2020 Poison Pill Recap And Current Trends

The number of stockholder rights plans (also known as “poison pills”) adopted in 2020 significantly increased compared to prior years. The collapse in public company equity values during the inception of the COVID-19...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Poison Pill Deep Dive Series: Qualifying Offer

The sixth of a six-part series examining six specific and evolving rights plan provisions. As discussed in greater detail in some of our prior articles, a shareholder rights plan is a protective measure used by a public...more

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ISS and Glass Lewis Announce Flexibility In Corporate Governance Policies During COVID-19 Crisis

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ISS and Glass Lewis have issued guidance on their corporate governance voting policies that adds flexibility to reflect the realities of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis and the challenges in responding to it. Public...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Protecting Shareholder Rights During the COVID 19 Pandemic

Boards may want to consider adopting or placing “on the shelf” a shareholder rights plan (or “poison pill”) to address the recent collapse in equity values and resulting vulnerability. Because of the current unprecedented...more

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Blog: ISS provides guidance on the impact on policy of the COVID-19 pandemic

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Today, ISS provided special policy guidance on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, observing that, in light of the current uncertainty, it is appropriate “to provide our stakeholders with some specific guidance on a number...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Reviewing ISS’ Catholic-Faith Based Proxy Guidelines: Vote FOR Appraisal

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Proxy firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) offers a number of proxy guidelines for specific funds, kinds of funds and separate interest groups....more

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ISS and Glass Lewis Proxy Guidance 2020

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Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass, Lewis & Co. (Glass Lewis), the two leading providers of corporate governance research and proxy voting services, have published their updated proxy voting guidelines for...more

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Annual Meeting and Other Considerations

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Climate Scorecard. At this point, public companies are keenly aware of the growing emphasis shareholders place on companies’ practices in regard to environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) issues. In furtherance of that...more

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ISS and Glass Lewis Issue Policy Updates for the 2020 Proxy Season

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Recently, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis released revisions to their respective proxy voting guidelines for 2020. The ISS and Glass Lewis updates applicable to U.S. companies are discussed separately...more

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ISS Issues Proxy Voting Guidelines for the 2020 Proxy Season

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On November 11, 2019, Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (“ISS”) published its proxy voting guidelines updates (the “2020 Updates”) for the 2020 proxy season, effective for meetings on or after February 1, 2020. The...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

ISS Announces 2018 Updates to US Proxy Voting Guidelines

Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) recently announced updates to its U.S. proxy voting guidelines for the 2018 proxy season. Although the updates are not likely to have a significant impact on 2018...more

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SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee Airs Concerns Over Multi-Tiered Offerings Following Snap’s IPO

Snap Inc., which debuted on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 2nd, was the largest tech IPO since Alibaba went public in 2014. Initially priced at $17 per share, the share price jumped to more than $24 by the end of...more

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2017 ISS and Glass Lewis Updates to Canadian Proxy Voting Guidelines

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Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass, Lewis & Co (Glass Lewis) have both released their updates to their respective Canadian proxy voting guidelines for the upcoming 2017 proxy season. The ISS updates apply to...more

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Proxy Advisory Firms Issue 2017 Voting Guidelines

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Proxy advisory firms Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass, Lewis & Co. (Glass Lewis) recently issued updated proxy voting guidelines for the upcoming 2017 proxy season. Notable updates were issued by one or...more

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ISS and Glass Lewis Update Their Proxy Voting Guidelines

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Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass, Lewis & Co. (Glass Lewis), two of the leading providers of corporate governance research and proxy voting services, have published their updated proxy voting guidelines for...more

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ISS Policy Changes for the 2016 Proxy Season

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Proxy Access - ISS has determined not to alter its basic approach to management and shareholder proxy access proposals for 2016. However, ISS has stated that it expects to release a FAQ in December 2015 that will provide...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Summary of ISS 2016 Policy Announcements

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) issued new U.S. voting policies and an updated Equity Plan Scorecard FAQ, both effective for annual shareholder meetings occurring on or after February 1, 2016. This alert provides a...more

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ISS Issues 2016 Policy Updates

ISS has issued the following policy updates for 2016. Overboarding - Current ISS policy considers a director “overboarded” if he or she sits on more than six public company boards – or if he or she is also a CEO,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

ISS and Glass Lewis Adopt 2015 Voting Policies

Proxy advisory firms Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass Lewis have both released their voting policies for the 2015 proxy season. The policy changes for U.S. companies include updates to the firms’...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

ISS and Glass Lewis Update their Proxy Voting Guidelines for 2015

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Proxy research and advice entities Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS”) and Glass, Lewis & Co., LLC (“Glass Lewis”) recently updated the guidelines each service will use to inform their voting recommendations for...more

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ISS Publishes Results of Annual Global Voting Policy Survey

On September 29, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a leading proxy advisory firm, published the results of its 2014–2015 global voting policy survey. The survey, which, according to ISS, received more than 370...more

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ISS Governance QuickScore to Replace GRId System

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Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a leading provider of corporate governance research and proxy voting services, has announced that it is replacing the Governance Risk Indicators (GRId) database, which was designed to...more

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