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FTSE 350: Snapshot of AGM Key Trends – August 2025 Update

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As we move to the end of the 2025 AGM season, we have updated our analysis of how FTSE 350 companies have held their AGMs since January. Our review highlights emerging trends in shareholder communications, the evolution of...more

Allen Matkins

California Decides That The Sun Shall Not Set On Virtual Meeting Statutes

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Despite being home to the Silicon Valley, California has not embraced with abandon virtual-only meetings of shareholders.  Section 600(e) of the Corporations Code currently does not permit virtual only meetings unless one of...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

CSA Update Guidance on Virtual Shareholder Meetings

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The Canadian Securities Administrators (“CSA”) provided initial guidance on virtual shareholder meetings in February 2022 to: (i) assist reporting issuers in fulfilling their obligations under securities legislation; and (ii)...more

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Virtual Shareholders Meetings: Draft Decree Amends Mexico's General Law of Commercial Companies

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The Mexican Senate, on Sept. 12, 2023, unanimously approved the draft Decree reforming several provisions of the General Law of Commercial Companies (Ley General de Sociedades Mercantiles or LGSM). By virtue of this reform,...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Massachusetts Makes “Virtual Meeting” ‎Relief Permanent

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We previously issued a QuickStudy reporting that the Massachusetts legislature had extended to March 31, 2023 the COVID-19 pandemic relief that allowed Massachusetts public companies and Massachusetts non-profit corporations...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Better Late than Never: Virtual Shareholder Meetings Now Available to South Carolina-Chartered Corporations

South Carolina-chartered corporations may now hold virtual meetings of shareholders whereby shareholders and proxy holders not physically present at the annual or special meeting location may participate by means of remote...more

Clark Hill PLC

End of an Era for Virtual AGMs and EGMs of Irish Companies?

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Amongst the many pro-business responses of the Irish Government to the challenges presented by the onset of Covid-19 in 2020 was the swiftly-enacted Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions)(Covid-19) Act 2020 (the “Covid-19...more

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California Enacts Temporary, Yet Urgent, Law Allowing Virtual Only Shareholder Meetings

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Last year, the California legislature enacted AB 663 (Chen) in order to provide California corporations with greater flexibility to hold virtual-only meetings of shareholders.  Among other things, AB 663 amended Corporations...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

North Carolina Business Corporation Act Now Permits Fully Virtual Shareholders' Meetings

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On September 20, 2021, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper signed House Bill 320 into law, permitting North Carolina corporations to hold shareholders’ meetings solely by means of remote communication under the North Carolina...more

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North Carolina Permanently Authorizes Virtual Only Shareholders’ Meetings

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As discussed in our March 17, 2020 and April 3, 2020 client alerts, the COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted the ability of North Carolina corporations to hold in-person meetings of shareholders. Because the North...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

New Jersey Corporations May Now Hold Any Shareholder Meeting Remotely

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What You Need To Know: •New Jersey corporations may now hold fully remote shareholder meetings even absent a state of emergency. •Boards of directors must still adopt guidelines and procedures governing remote...more

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Massachusetts Executive Order Permitting Massachusetts Public Companies to Hold Virtual-Only Shareholder Meetings to Expire

Massachusetts Governor Charles Baker’s COVID executive order permitting public companies incorporated in Massachusetts to hold virtual-only shareholder meetings is set to expire on August 14, 60 days after the June 15 lifting...more

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Alaska Legislature Passes Bill Allowing Virtual Shareholder Meetings

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Dorsey Assists Alaska Corporations to Hold Annual Virtual and Hybrid Meetings - The Alaska Legislature unanimously passed Senate Bill 24, on March 22, 2021, allowing corporate shareholder meetings and nonprofit member...more

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Corporate Governance: le novità per la stagione assembleare 2021

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Le novità da considerare per l’imminente stagione assembleare e per aggiornare la corporate governance anche alla luce delle disposizioni introdotte per l’emergenza COVID-19. Le nuove modalità per l’assemblea dei soci tra...more

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Prospects Dim for In-Person Meetings in 2021: Glass Lewis Provides Updated Hybrid/Virtual Approach

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As we approach our 11th month of COVID-19 restrictions, the pandemic continues to evolve with new variants, while vaccination efforts move forward at a snail’s pace because of limited supplies in many states. Many hoped for a...more

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Preparation for 2020 Fiscal Year-End SEC Filings and 2021 Annual Shareholder Meetings

As our clients and friends know, each year Mintz provides an analysis of the regulatory developments that impact public companies as they prepare for their fiscal year-end filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission...more

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Annual Meeting and Proxy Considerations

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Holding Your Annual Meeting Virtually—Lessons Learned From 2020 - In light of the circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, it comes as no surprise that there was a dramatic increase in the number of virtual...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: 2020 Working Group identifies best practices for virtual shareholder meetings

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Just in time for the new proxy season comes this Report of the 2020 Multi-Stakeholder Working Group on Practices for Virtual Shareholder Meetings from the Rutgers Center for Corporate Law and Governance, the Council of...more

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2021 Virtual Shareholder Annual Meetings

Many companies held virtual annual shareholder meetings in 2020.  This was principally the result of the COVID-19 pandemic and related state shutdowns or stay-at-home orders.  Typically, companies switched from the more...more

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Covid – 19 update Listed companies & Emergency Act Virtual GM

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Following an accelerated legislative procedure, the Temporary Act COVID-19 came into force in April 2020. The Act has retroactive effect until and including 16 March 2020. This "Emergency Act" provides, among other things,...more

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2021 Annual Shareholder Meetings – Avoiding a Super Spreader Event

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As COVID-19 rages on, companies are again flocking to virtual annual meetings for the 2021 proxy season, but with one important difference: the luxury of time. Many companies are already exploring retention of virtual annual...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

From Distance Meetings to Diversity Reports: 2020 Updates for NY State Businesses

This year, forces such as COVID-19, current events and cultural groundswells have prompted society to re-examine everything from how we can safely gather to how we might best embrace and promote diversity. These concerns have...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Planning Ahead: Virtual Shareholder Meetings in the 2021 Proxy Season

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted U.S. public companies in myriad ways. The fact that the traditional proxy season — the period from April through June when a substantial number of public companies hold their annual meetings...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: What’s the latest on virtual shareholder meetings?

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It should come as no surprise that, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of virtually shareholder meetings this proxy season has jumped—off the page. But will this year’s broad experience leave companies wanting...more

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Nonstock Corporations Alert: Remote Membership Meetings Permitted

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On March 21, 2020, Governor Lamont’s Executive Order 7I authorized Connecticut corporations to hold remote shareholder meetings to avoid the risks of gathering shareholders in person during the COVID-19 pandemic....more

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