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. Sun, 17 May 2026 11:30:53 +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 Report on Practices for Virtual Shareholder Meetings – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Report on Practices for Virtual Shareholder Meetings https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2021/01/11/report-on-practices-for-virtual-shareholder-meetings/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=report-on-practices-for-virtual-shareholder-meetings https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2021/01/11/report-on-practices-for-virtual-shareholder-meetings/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:53:29 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=135434?d=20210111085329EST Posted by Douglas K. Chia and Ann S. Lee (Rutgers Center for Corporate Law and Governance, The Society for Corporate Governance, and the Council of Institutional Investors), on Monday, January 11, 2021
Editor's Note:

Douglas K. Chia is a fellow at Rutgers Center for Corporate Law and Governance, and Ann S. Lee is a JD candidate at Rutgers Law School. This post is an excerpt from the report of the 2020 Multi-Stakeholder Working Group on Practices for Virtual Shareholder Meeting, co-chaired by Amy Borrus, Executive Director of the Council of Institutional Investors, and Darla Stuckey,  CEO of the Society for Corporate Governance.

The scope of this post comprises the conduct during the VSM and the related disclosures made before and after the meeting. It is designed to outline expectations, as well as evolving practices, for VSMs once a company has decided to hold its annual meeting using a VSM platform. It also highlights certain areas of the VSM experience. In this sense, the post should be used as a guide for—but not an endorsement of—VSMs.

There are many factors that each of the over 4,000 publicly listed companies in the U.S. should consider when deciding on the best format for its annual meeting, including available resources, nature of the items of business to be voted on, composition of the shareholder base, historical attendance, level of comfort with new technology, and shareholder appetite. Each company should look at its particular facts and circumstances, evaluate all of its options, and hold its annual meeting in a way that bests serve the needs of the company and its shareholders.

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