Should investment advisers be allowed to hold clients’ crypto assets themselves? The SEC has proposed a new cryptocurrency ...

This week’s governance, compliance and risk-management stories from around the web – Microsoft will maintain existing ...

Investor campaigns could become costlier, slower and more litigious, experts warn Governance experts have warned that the SEC ...

The role of the director is changing in real time. Boards are no longer judged only on decisions made in formal meetings, but on the quality of their readiness, judgment and responsiveness between ...

Aaron Briggs is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s San Francisco, CA office, where he works in the firm’s securities regulation and corporate governance practice group. Mr. Briggs’ practice focuses on ...

When Sysco announced two new board appointments with expertise in AI and the food industry last week, it offered a clear signal of where AI governance is heading: companies are looking to put greater ...

The US Senate has left Washington for its August recess without holding a vote on the proposed legislation, pushing the decision into September Senate majority leader John Thune has filed cloture – ...

State attorney general Ken Paxton has accused the proxy adviser of misleading investors by falsely framing its voting advice as objective Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has filed a new lawsuit ...

While shareholder activists remained active this proxy season, they increasingly secured board seats behind closed doors rather than at the ballot box, as M&A demands, executive pay scrutiny and ...

What does a surge in governance proposals mean for shareholder engagement? A sharp rise in governance-focused shareholder proposals, a big shift in the SEC’s proposal exclusion process and growing ...

Board members are receiving hundreds of pages of material ahead of meetings, yet many still say the information is too long, too detailed and not focused enough on strategy, research shows. According ...

How do governance failures at the top take root before anyone acts? Recent developments at BP – culminating with the ouster of its chairman of the board of directors for ‘serious concerns’ tied to ...