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: The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog

HLS and HBS Professors Recommend Modifying SEC’s Proposed Proxy Access Rules

By Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance

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(Editor’s Note: An earlier post regarding a comment letter by seven major corporate law firms in opposition to the SEC?s proposed proxy access reform is available on the Forum here. An earlier post regarding a comment letter by 80 professors of law, business, economics, or finance in support of the proposed proxy access reform is available here.)

Several contributors to the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation ? including four HLS professors, five HBS professors, and one HLS/HBS professor — submitted to the SEC last week a comment letter generally supporting the SEC in proposing proxy access for large shareholders, but recommending several modifications to the proposed rule that would reduce the odds that the rule, as adopted, would have unexpected disruptive effects on firms or markets, or force on shareholders a governance system that a majority would oppose at any given firm. A copy of the comment letter filed with the SEC is available here.

Full post as published by The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog on August 20, 2009 (boomark / email).