TheCorporateCounsel.net

July 13, 2011

Welcome to Marty Dunn!

We are excited to announce that Marty Dunn has just come aboard as Editor of our print newsletter, The Corporate Counsel. Marty joins our esteemed team of Editors: David Lynn, Alan Dye and Mike Gettelman. As many of you know, Marty spent 20 years at the SEC, most recently as Deputy Director and former Acting Director of the Division of Corporation Finance; Marty is now a partner at O’Melveny & Myers. We are looking forward to Marty bringing a new dimension to each issue of The Corporate Counsel with his unique insider’s perspective and his ability to apply practical guidance to situations that you grapple with every day.

Marty worked on the May-June issue of The Corporate Counsel that was just mailed. This issue analyzes these topics:

– Reaching Out for Say-on-Pay Approval: Additional Soliciting Material this Proxy Season
– Reporting Shareholder Meeting Voting Results – Form 10-Q/K Reporting
– Phrasing Management’s Say-on-Pay Proposal on the Proxy Card
– Shareholder’s Withdrawal of 14a-8 Proposal After Proxy Statement is Mailed – Impacts?
– Beware of HSR Filing Requirements That Can Apply to Equity Compensation of Executives
– More on Choice of Forum – Shareholder Approval
– Former Director Disclosure in the 10-K?
– Eliminating a Form 11-K Obligation
– Legislative Action on Exchange Act Registration Thresholds
– More Legislative Action – Regulation A+?

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ISS’s 2011-2012 Policy Survey

Perhaps a little earlier than in prior years, ISS recently released its 2011-2012 Policy Survey. Responses and comments are due by August 3rd. Although it’s only a survey, the questions, responses and comments serve as the basis for ISS’s policy formulation process. As noted by an anonymous inhouse member yesterday on our “Proxy Season Blog, ” some companies are looking at this survey closely – and it’s likely that more will be submitting comments compared to prior years due to say-on-pay and a greater interest in providing input these days…

Webcast: “Key Disclosure Policies: The Dangers of Standing Pat”

Tune in tomorrow for the webcast – “Key Disclosure Policies: The Dangers of Standing Pat” – to hear Stacey Gear of Primerica, Isobel Jones of Del Monte Foods, Dave Lynn of TheCorporateCounsel.net and Morrison & Foerster, Jane Whitt Sellers of McGuireWoods and Bill Tolbert of Jenner & Block provide practical guidance about revisiting your corporate disclosure policies as well as your disclosure training program for officers, employees and directors.

– Broc Romanek