New Rules Shift Power in Proxy Fight

Shareholders Gain More Information, But Can They Use It?

January 4, 2010

The Securities and Exchange Commission has approved new rules to significantly enhance the level of information companies are required to provide shareholders in proxy statements, but many leaders worry that these changes will do little more than add to the expenses that shareholders pay. The Commission has been struggling with the complicated issue of proxy access for most of the past decade and had held numerous roundtables and rule proposals that went nowhere, before finally seizing the opportunity of the recent financial crisis to push through several big changes just before the end of the year.

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