The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:48:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png What to Expect from Dodd-Frank in the 2011 Proxy Season – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 What to Expect from Dodd-Frank in the 2011 Proxy Season https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2010/07/30/what-to-expect-from-dodd-frank-in-the-2011-proxy-season/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-to-expect-from-dodd-frank-in-the-2011-proxy-season https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2010/07/30/what-to-expect-from-dodd-frank-in-the-2011-proxy-season/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:35:39 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=11590?d=20100730093539EDT Editor’s Note: Holly Gregory is a Corporate Partner specializing in corporate governance at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. This post is based on an extract from a Weil Gotshal Briefing; the complete article is available here. Other posts relating to the Dodd-Frank Act are available here.

The new requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act and current trends in shareholder activism are likely to combine to make the 2011 proxy season unlike any before in terms of the range of matters on which boards will need to elicit shareholder support and the level of shareholder engagement:

  • Proxy Access: We expect the SEC to act promptly to give substantial shareholders or shareholder groups the ability to include their nominees for a limited number of board seats in the company’s proxy materials. Interest in access is evidenced by the efforts of some institutional shareholders to create databases of potential director candidates. For calendar year companies, we expect the deadline to submit shareholder nominations for inclusion in company proxy materials to be around year-end, subject to the terms of advance notice bylaws (which may need to be reset when the new rules are adopted).

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