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Observations and Recommendations on the SEC’s Recent Process Changes for Excluding Shareholder Proposals

Observations and Recommendations on the SEC’s Recent Process Changes for Excluding Shareholder Proposals

Overview Earlier this month, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance announced that its staff may respond orally instead of in writing to some shareholder proposal no-action requests, beginning with the 2019-2020 proxy season.   Furthermore, the staff may now more frequently decline to state a view on the no-action request, whereas in the past, it had typically concurred or disagreed with a company’s asserted basis for...