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Corporate

Sep. 8, 2010

Who's Afraid of Proxy Access?

Will allowing shareholders proxy access stimulate new and fruitful deliberations or will board functions be under threat? By Jane Whitt Sellers and Richard S. Grant of McGuireWoods.

By Richard S. Grant and Jane Whitt Sellers

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act enacted by the U.S. Congress this summer has received conflicting reviews - some see it as a defining event in financial services and public company regulation and others question how much it accomplishes when some of the more far-reaching proposals considered along the way did not make it into the final bill. In reality, the Act has some of both. It ...

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