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2022 Proxy Season Review: Rule 14a-8 Shareholder Proposals

Harvard Corporate Governance

Posted by June Hu, Melissa Sawyer, and Marc Treviño, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, on Thursday, August 25, 2022 Editor's Note: June Hu is an associate, and Melissa Sawyer and Marc Treviño are partners at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. We will also host our annual webinar in September to discuss 2022 proxy season developments.

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2022 Proxy Season Preview: Rule 14a-8 Shareholder Proposals

Harvard Corporate Governance

Posted by June Hu, Melissa Sawyer, and Marc Treviño, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, on Thursday, August 25, 2022 Editor's Note: June Hu is an associate, and Melissa Sawyer and Marc Treviño are partners at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. We will also host our annual webinar in September to discuss 2022 proxy season developments.

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Gibson Dunn Offers Activism Update for 2022

Reynolds Holding

This update discusses shareholder activism activity involving NYSE- and Nasdaq- listed companies with equity market capitalizations in excess of $1 billion and below $100 billion (as of the last date of trading in 2022) during 2022. Announced shareholder activist activity increased relative to 2021.

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Data Update 1 for 2022: It is Moneyball Time!

Musings on Markets

Happy New Year, and I hope that 2022 brings you good tidings! To start the year, I returned to a ritual that I have practiced for thirty years, and that is to take a look at not just market changes over the last year, but also to get measures of the financial standing and practices of companies around the world.

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Discretionary Investing by ‘Passive’ S&P 500 Funds

Harvard Corporate Governance

in the fourth quarter of 2022 alone. These deviations amount to over $60 billion in discretionary investment decisions, roughly equivalent to Target Corporation’s entire market capitalization.

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The Seven Samurai: How Big Tech Rescued the Market in 2023!

Musings on Markets

First, let's look at the performance of these seven stocks in 2023, when their collective market capitalization increased by a staggering $5.1 In terms of dollar value added, Microsoft and Apple each added a trillion dollars to their market capitalizations, during the year. trillion during the course of the year.

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ISS Discusses the Largest Class Action Settlements of 2022

Reynolds Holding

billion [1] in 2022, a greater than 75% increase from 2021. (A market will be documented in the ISS Securities Class Action Services “Top 100 U.S. In this overview, ISS Securities Class Action Services reviews the largest shareholder-related settlements of 2022. Shareholder Class Actions of 2022. Of the top ten U.S.

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