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Timely Takes Podcast: 2025 Proxy Season Update

 

Reid Hooper

Michael Mencher

Reid Hooper is Special Counsel at Cooley LLP.

Michael Mencher is Special Counsel at Cooley LLP.

Reid Hooper is Special Counsel at Cooley LLP. Reid Hooper's practice focuses on securities regulation, SEC reporting and compliance, proxy and shareholder issues, corporate governance, and corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions.

Michael Mencher is Special Counsel at Cooley LLP. Michael represents public and late-stage private companies in a broad range of corporate governance, disclosure and sustainability matters. He has extensive experience counseling management and boards on corporate governance policy and trends; engagement and activism; shareholder proposals; environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters; and Exchange Act reporting.

Topics covered:

  1. Influence of SLB 14M on current and future proxy seasons
  2. Shareholder proposal hot topics
  3. Impact of 13D/G CDIs on proxy season engagement
  4. Overview of 14a-8 “no-action” letter results
  5. Trends in no-action submissions and arguments
  6. Outlook for 2026 proxy season after a full year of SLB 14M

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