We've decided to hold a second installment of our popular "Shareholder Engagement Workshop" for in-house practitioners as the initial one filled to capacity so quickly. It's being held next Tuesday, August 17th - so if you're in-house and interested, please drop me a line and I'll shoot over an invite. Here's how the workshop works:

I never thought I'd miss business travel. Not taking a business trip for over a year has been as big of a change to my routine as working from home. With clients all over the country, plus law firm leadership responsibilities, I used to travel a lot, and probably flew somewhere almost once a week.

As companies continue to go public with dual classes of stock - SEC and proxy advisory firm scrutiny aside - questions arise around Form 4 reporting and short-swing profit recovery rules. For example, do you need to include all classes of stock on a Form 4 if you're only reporting a transaction in one class?

1. Don't Rush the Process - The comment letter will typically state that you have you 10 business days to respond to the comments.

We've now got our hot little hands – well, my hands aren't little – on BlackRock's 2021 Investment Stewardship report and it's weighing in at 76 pages. Yes, there is an Executive Summary – but it's 15 pages long - so I'm going to spoon-feed you with these 10 nuggets:

In this entry on our firm's "Asset Management ADVocate" blog penned by Gwen Williamson, you can catch up by learning about a bunch of ESG-related musings by those at the SEC. Here's an excerpt from that blog: