Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
05/08/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 06/08/2024 15:33
2024 Proxy Season Review
Insights for Companies and Board Directors
Sullivan & Cromwell's 12th annual Proxy Season Review analyzes significant trends and developments that emerged from the recent U.S. annual meeting proxy season and provides takeaways for 2024. The first part of our Review surveys shareholder proposals during the 2024 proxy season, which saw a record-breaking number of companies with at least one Rule 14a-8 proposal on the ballot. The second part of this Review, focusing on trends in compensation-related matters, will be published within the coming weeks.
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S&C's Corporate Governance Practice
Sullivan & Cromwell offers clients an understanding of corporate governance requirements, practices and trends built over decades of experience. In every area of corporate governance-from regular disclosures to extraordinary activist campaigns and policy matters-our Corporate Governance Practice delivers market-leading expertise.
Meet Our Lawyers:
Marc Treviño is Co-Head of S&C's Corporate Governance Practice and Managing Partner of its Executive Compensation Group. Marc is a recognized leader in structuring and counseling senior executives and boards in significant matters involving reputation, overlapping regulatory regimes, fiduciary conflicts and multiple jurisdictions, with a particular emphasis on matters involving financial institutions.
Melissa Sawyer is Co-Head of the Firm's Corporate Governance Practiceand S&C's Global Head of M&A. She regularly advises clients on governance, activism and takeover defense matters spanning multiple industries, including consumer and retail, TMT, technology, industrials and life sciences.
June Hu is Special Counsel in the Firm's General Practice Group. She coordinates the Firm's Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Practice, and advises on a range of ESG, corporate governance, activism and takeover defense matters.