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. Thu, 14 May 2026 15:03:10 +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 Proxy Advisory Firms and Corporate Governance Practices: One Size Does Not Fit All – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Proxy Advisory Firms and Corporate Governance Practices: One Size Does Not Fit All https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2014/06/18/proxy-advisory-firms-and-corporate-governance-practices-one-size-does-not-fit-all/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=proxy-advisory-firms-and-corporate-governance-practices-one-size-does-not-fit-all https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2014/06/18/proxy-advisory-firms-and-corporate-governance-practices-one-size-does-not-fit-all/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:00:59 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=63935?d=20141215153726EST Posted by Yaron Nili, Co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, on Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Editor's Note:

The following post comes to us from Bill Libit, partner concentrating in corporate and securities and municipal finance at Chapman and Cutler LLP, and is based on a Chapman publication by Mr. Libit and Todd Freier.

The 2014 proxy season, like previous seasons, has provided shareholders of public US companies with an opportunity to vote on a number of corporate governance proposals and director elections. Throughout this proxy season, proxy advisory firms have provided shareholder vote recommendations “for” or “against” those proposals and “for” or to “withhold” votes for directors. Certain proxy advisory firms, such as Institutional Shareholders Services Inc. (“ISS”) and Glass, Lewis & Co., LLC (“Glass Lewis”), have also published updated corporate governance ratings reports on public companies, including evaluations of a company’s corporate governance risk profile.

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