Meredith just hosted a terrific new Timely Takes Podcast featuring Davis Polk’s Ning Chiu and ExxonMobil’s David Kern on ExxonMobil’s new retail investor voting program. During this 33-minute podcast, Ning and David discussed:

– What led ExxonMobil to create this program and seek no-action relief from the SEC
– The basics of the program, focused on the aspects that were critical to the no-action relief
– The process of getting the program up & running
– Interest in the program and feedback received so far
– Maintaining the program and how investors opt in and out
– The process each year during proxy season
– What other companies should think through if considering a similar program

As always, if you have insights on a securities law, capital markets or corporate governance issue, trend or development that you’d like to share in a podcast, we’d love to hear from you. You can email me and/or Meredith at john@thecorporatecounsel.net or mervine@ccrcorp.com.

– John Jenkins