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Fall 2025 Governance Roundup
                                            Navigating a fragmented landscape for executive compensation and proxy policy.
                                    
             
Proxy Advisor Oversight Takes Center Stage This Summer
                                            DC Circuit Ends Multiyear Dispute in Favor of Proxy Advisors While Texas Enacts State-Level Proxy Advisor Regulation
                                    
             
SEC to Revisit Executive Compensation Disclosure Rules at June 26, 2025 Roundtable
                                            Public companies, investors, and subject-matter experts are invited to weigh in on the complexity and usefulness of current disclosure requirements.
                                    
             
Navigating 11th Hour Guidance on Board DE&I
                                            ISS and Glass Lewis, along with several large institutional investors, have softened their stance on board diversity policies for 2025. 
                                    
             
Analysis of Final 2025 Policy Changes From ISS and Glass Lewis
                                            What public companies need to know about each advisor’s explicit, material changes in how they plan to evaluate executive pay programs.
                                    
             
FTC Non-Compete Rule Struck Down Nationwide
                                            A federal judge’s decision means the rule will not go into effect on September 4, 2024. Here’s what that means for companies today, and possible next steps.
                                    
             
ISS and Glass Lewis Release Policy Surveys Signaling Potential Executive Compensation Changes for 2025
                                            These surveys provide hints on how the proxy advisors are thinking about hot-button executive compensation issues.
                                    
             
A Tale of Two Cases: Federal Non-Compete Rules Remain In Limbo Until the End of the Summer
                                            Suggestions for clients during this period of uncertainty and in anticipation of the approaching FTC effective date.
                                    
             
Update on the Oversight and Regulation of Proxy Advisors
                                            What the most recent court ruling means for ISS, Glass Lewis, and public companies.
                                    
            
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