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Event Alert Update: Wilson Sonsini’s MCLE Days, January Sessions Announced and December Recordings Available
Wilson Sonsini is pleased to offer MCLE Days, a newly expanded programming to meet your MCLE requirements.
On Friday, January 17, 2025, and Thursday, January 23, 2025, Wilson Sonsini will host virtual MCLE sessions. You may register here for the January 17 session and here for the January 23 session. The topics to be covered…
ISS and Glass Lewis Publish 2025 Updates
Our recent Client Alert discusses ISS and Glass Lewis voting policy updates for the 2025 proxy season. ISS made updates to the section on management say-on-pay and executive pay evaluation in its U.S. Executive Compensation Policies FAQs and made updates to its voting guidelines relating to environmental and/or community impact assessment shareholder proposals, short-term poison…
Event Alert: Wilson Sonsini’s MCLE Days, December 12, January 17 and 23
Wilson Sonsini is pleased to offer MCLE Days, a newly expanded programming to meet your MCLE requirements. The first of our three MCLE Days will be held Thursday, December 12, 2024, at the Sheraton Palo Alto in Palo Alto, California (details below), and will also be available virtually. Register for this event here. The…
Webinar Alert | Election 2024: Regulatory Predictions for the New Administration
Join Wilson Sonsini for a webinar on Tuesday, September 24, 2024, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., Pacific Time, where our esteemed panel will consider how federal enforcement priorities may differ between a Trump and Harris administration, and the likelihood of Biden Administration enforcement policies continuing in either administration. Register here.
Key topics will…
ISS and Glass Lewis Launch Annual Policy Surveys
On August 1, 2024, ISS Governance (ISS) announced the launch of its Annual Benchmark Policy Survey. The survey results will inform ISS’s policy development for 2025 and beyond. For the U.S. market, the survey solicits views on poison pills and executive compensation. In addition, the survey solicits views on global environmental and social topics…