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Comments on Proposed Rule: Proxy Disclosure and Solicitation Enhancements
[Release Nos. 33-9052, 34-60280, IC-28817; File No. S7-13-09]
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| Dec. 8, 2009 | Jeffrey W. Rubin, Chair, Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities, Section of Business Law, American Bar Association, New York, New York |
| Nov. 19, 2009 | Memorandum from the Division of Corporation Finance regarding a November 12, 2009, meeting with representatives of Hermes Equity Ownership Services Ltd. and Hitchcock Law Firm PLLC |
| Nov. 18, 2009 | Halpin T. Burke |
| Nov. 12, 2009 | Memorandum from the Division of Corporation Finance regarding a November 9, 2009, meeting with representatives of the Federal Policy Group, Pearl Meyer & Partners, and Clark and Wamberg LLC |
| Nov. 8, 2009 | Gary D. Brouse, Hackensack, New Jersey |
| Nov. 5, 2009 | Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar regarding a November 3, 2009, meeting with representatives of Council of Institutional Investors and California Public Employees Retirement System |
| Oct. 23, 2009 | Memorandum from the Division of Corporation Finance regarding an October 22, 2009, meeting with representatives of Watson Wyatt & Company, Mercer, Towers Perrin, Marsh & McClennan Companies, Hewitt Associates LLC, King & Spalding, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, and Patton Boggs LLP |
| Oct. 23, 2009 | Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar regarding an October 22, 2009, meeting with representatives of The Business Roundtable |
| Oct. 16, 2009 | Jeffrey W. Rubin, Chair, Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities, Business Law Section, American Bar Association, New York, New York |
| Oct. 8, 2009 | Dr. Andrea C. Hall |
| Oct. 5, 2009 | Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Paredes regarding an October 5, 2009, meeting with representatives of Hewitt Associates LLC, Watson Wyatt & Company, Mercer, Towers Perrin, and Patton Boggs LLP |
| Sep. 29, 2009 | Roy Snell, CEO, Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics |
| Sep. 24, 2009 | John Okray, Vice President and Asst. Counsel, OppenheimerFunds, Inc., New York, New York |
| Sep. 20, 2009 | Paul M. Neuhauser, on behalf of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility |
| Sep. 18, 2009 | Alfred F. Delchamps, III, Senior Associate Counsel, Protective Life Corporation |
| Sep. 16, 2009 | Anne Simpson, Senior Portfolio Manager, Global Equity, California Public Employees’ Retirement System |
| Sep. 16, 2009 | Mark A. Borges, Principal, Compensia, Inc., San Jose, California |
| Sep. 16, 2009 | Roderick A. Palmore, Executive Vice President, General Counsel &
Chief Corporate and Risk Management Officer, General Mills, Inc. |
| Sep. 16, 2009 | Ashbel C. Williams, Executive Director and CIO, Florida State Board of Administration, Tallahassee, Florida |
| Sep. 16, 2009 | Anthony J. Horan, Corporate Secretary, Office of the Secretary, JPMorgan Chase Co., New York, New York |
| Sep. 16, 2009 | William M. Tartikoff, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Calvert Group, Ltd. and Ivy Wafford Duke, Assistant Vice President, and Deputy General Counsel, Calvert Group, Ltd. |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Carl Brooks, President and CEO, The Executive Leadership Council |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Ilene H. Lang, Catalyst; Carl Brooks, The Executive Leadership Council; Carlos F. Orta, HACR; J.D. Hokoyama, LEAP; and Patrick M. Prout, The Prout Group; Alliance for Board Diversity |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Paul E. Platten, Ph.D., Vice President, Global Practice Director, Human Capital Group and Steve Seelig, Esq., Executive Compensation Counsel, Watson Wyatt Worldwide |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | David N. Swinford, President and CEO, Pearl Meyer and Partners, New York, New York |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Memorandum from the Division of Corporation Finance Regarding Meetings held on August 19, 2009, August 21, 2009, and August 27, 2009 with representatives of Hewitt Associates LLC, Mercer, Watson Wyatt & Company, Patton Boggs LLP, and Towers Perrin |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Charles G. Tharp, Executive Vice President for Policy, Center On Executive Compensation |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Thomas R. Moore, Vice President, Corporate Secretary and Chief Governance Officer, Ameriprise Financial, Inc. |
| Sep. 16, 2009 | Thomas Quaadman, Executive Director for Financial Reporting Policy and Investor Opportunity, Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Linda E. Amuso, President, Radford and Ted Buyniski, Senior Vice President, Radford |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Marc Hodak, Managing Director, Hodak Value Advisors and Professor, New York University, Markets, Ethics, and Law Program, New York, New York |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Niels Holch, Executive Director, Shareholder Communications Coalition |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Sterling H. McDonald, VP, CFO and Treasurer, Evolution Petroleum Corporation |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Katherine Rabin, Chief Executive Officer, Glass, Lewis & Co. and Robert McCormick, Chief Policy Officer, Glass, Lewis & Co. |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Wendy Beecham, CEO, Forum for Women Entrepreneurs & Executives |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Steven Minsky, Chief Executive Officer, LogicManager, Inc. |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Michael S. Kesner, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Mary Kay Craig, Sisters of Charity BVM |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Justin Delaney, Vice President, Assistant General Counsel, StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Sullivan & Cromwell LLP |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Arden T. Phillips, Chairman, Corporate and Securities Committee, Association of Corporate Counsel |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Daniel Helming |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Diane Doubleday |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Grant Thornton LLP |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Russell P. Fradin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hewitt Associates LLC |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Ernst & Young LLP |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Mark E. Warren, Vice President, Tax & Finance, Retail Industry Leaders Association |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Eleanor Bloxham, CEO, The Value Alliance and Corporate Governance Alliance |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | James C. Fleming, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Wisconsin Energy Corporation |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | R. Garrett Rogers, Esq., Partner, Grahall Consulting Partners |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Denise L. Nappier, State Treasurer, Connecticut State Treasurer |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Gerald W. McEntee, International President, American Federation of State, County |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Anna Burger, International Secretary Treasurer, Service Employees International Union |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Karrie McMillan, General Counsel, Investment Company Institute |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Ilene H. Lang, President & CEO, Catalyst |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Elizabeth Varley, Managing Director, Securities Industry and Financial Market |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | James F. Reda, Founder and Managing Director, James F. Reda & Associates LLC |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Dr. Daniel Summerfield, Co-Head of Responsible Investment, Universities Superannuation Scheme -UK; Ann Byrne, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Council of Super Investors -Australia;
Abigail Herron, Corporate Governance Manager, The Co-operative Asset Management -UK;
Elizabeth E. McGeveran, Senior Vice President, Governance & Sustainable Investment F&C Management Ltd. -Boston; Wayne Kozun, Senior Vice President, Public Equities Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan -Canada;
Marcel Jeucken, Head of Responsible Investment, POGM Investments -Netherlands; and Frank Curtiss, Head of Corporate Governance, Railpen Investments -UK |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Carolyn McPhillips, Counsel, Mutual Fund Directors Forum |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Sara Watkins |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Barbara Hackman, Chair, National Association of Corporate Directors and Ken Daly,
President and CEO, National Association of Corporate Directors |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Neila B. Radin, Chair, Securities Law Committee, Society of Corporate Secretaries & Governance Professionals |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Ruth Strauss, Strauss Consulting |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Suzanne Schulze Taylor, Associate General Counsel and Assistant, NACCO Industries, Inc. |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Gary M. Locke, Managing Director, Towers Perrin and Paula H. Todd, Managing Principal, Towers Perrin |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | David Certner, Legislative Counsel and Legislative Policy Director
Government Relations and Advocacy, AARP |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Diane L. Doubleday, Worldwide Partner, Mercer |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Alexander F. Brigham, Executive Director, Ethisphere Institute; Stefan Linssen,
Editor-in-Chief, The Ethisphere Institute; and Stephen Martin, Managing Director, The Ethisphere Institute |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Patricia L. Roberts, Assistant Secretary, The Southern Company |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Amy B. R. Lancellotta, Managing Director, Independent Directors Council |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Glyn A. Holton, Executive Director, United States Proxy Exchange, et al. |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Ira T. Kay, Practice Director, Compensation Practice, Watson Wyatt Worldwide and Steven Seelig, Executive Compensation Counsel, Research and Innovation Center Watson Wyatt Worldwide |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | John B. Keane, American Electric Power Company, Inc. |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Ryan J. Maley, Software Technologies Group |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | David H. Zellner, Chief Investment Officer, General Board of Pension and Health Benefits of The United Methodist Church |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Bess Joffe, Associate Director, Hermes Equity Ownership Services Ltd. |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Matthew Lepore, Vice President and Chief Counsel – Corporate Governance Assistant General Counsel, Pfizer Inc. |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Edward J. Durkin, Director, Corporate Affairs Department, United Brotherhood of Carpenters |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Meredith Williams, Executive Director, Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Mary Ellen Carter, Associate Professor, Boston College |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Cheryl Smith, President, Trillium Asset Management Corporation |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Laurene H. Horiszny, Chief Compliance Officer, BorgWarner Inc. |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Alexander M. Cutler, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Eaton Corporation Chair, Corporate Leadership Initiative, Business Roundtable |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Thomas F. Larkins, Vice President, Corporate Secretary and Deputy General Counsel, Honeywell International Inc. |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Lissa Lamkin Broome, Wachovia Professor of Banking Law, Director, Center for Banking and Finance Director, Director Diversity Initiative University of North Carolina School of Law and Thomas Lee Hazen, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Law, Working Group Member, Director Diversity Initiative, Board of Advisors, Center for Banking and Finance, University ofNorth Carolina School of Law University of North Carolina School of Law |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | Rev. Seamus P. Finn, Director, Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Office
Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | Nancy Sims, President, The Robert Toigo Foundation |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | Christopher Ailman, Chief Investment Officer, California State Teachers' Retirement System |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | Patrick M. Prout, President & CEO, The Prout Group, Inc. |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | Timothy Smith, Senior Vice President, Walden Asset Management |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | Miriam Burgess, President, Board of Directors Network |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | Integrated Governance |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | David E. Gordon, Principal, Frederick W. Cook & Co. |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | Chloe Drew, Executive Director, Council of Urban Professionals |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | D. Scott Freed, Chair and Penny Somer-Greif, Vice-Chair, Maryland State Bar Association |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | Chadbourne & Parke LLP |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | Dawn K. Wolfe, Associate Director of ESG Research, Boston Common Asset Management; John Horning, Executive Director, WildEarth Guardians; and Carole Lombard csj, Director of Justice and Peace, Sisters of St. Joseph, Boston Common Asset Management |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | Daniel F. Pedrotty, Director, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | Linda K. Bollinger, Founder & Board Chair, Boardroom Bound |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | Paul Hodgson, Senior Research Associate, Portland, Maine |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | Lisa N. Woll, CEO, Social Investment Forum, Washington, District of Columbia |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | Keith Bozarth, Executive Director, State of Wisconsin Investment Board, Madison, Wisconsin |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | Ellen Toplin, President of The Forum of Executive Women, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | Christine Jacobs, Chairman and Chief Executivc Officer, Theragenics Corporation |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP |
| Sep. 14, 2009 | Anne K. Kvam, Global Head of Corporate Governance, Norges Bank Investment Management |
| Sep. 12, 2009 | Steve Quinlivan |
| Sep. 11, 2009 | Jorge Corralejo, Chairman and CEO, Latino Business Chamber of Greater Los Angeles |
| Sep. 11, 2009 | Andy Restaino, Principal, Towers Perrin and Ted Jarvis, Principal,
Executive Compensation, Towers Perrin |
| Sep. 11, 2009 | Julie F. Gorte, Ph.D., Pax World Management Corp. and Tracey C. Rembert,
Sustainability Analyst and Governance Advocate, Pax World Management Corp. |
| Sep. 11, 2009 | Christopher K. Young, National Compensation Practice Leader, Buck Consultants, New York, New York |
| Sep. 10, 2009 | Kathryn J. Hayley, Chief Executive Officer, Aon Consulting |
| Sep. 10, 2009 | Kathleen C. Stone, President, The Boston Club |
| Sep. 10, 2009 | Richard F. Chambers, Certified Internal Auditor, Certification in Control Self-Assessment,
Certified Government Auditing Professional, President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Internal Auditors |
| Sep. 10, 2009 | Frank Coleman "Cole" Inman, Corporate Governance Adviser, Former Business Professor |
| Sep. 10, 2009 | Carol Bowie, Head of the Governance Institute, RiskMetrics Group |
| Sep. 10, 2009 | Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Aguilar regarding a September 1, 2009 Meeting with Representatives of Marsh & McLennan; Mercer, Watson Wyatt; Hewitt; and Towers Perrin |
| Sep. 9, 2009 | Carla Rutley, Executive Director, Milwaukee Women Inc. |
| Sep. 9, 2009 | Robert J. Ahrenholz, Esq., Partner, Kutak Rock LLP, Denver, Colorado |
| Sep. 9, 2009 | Cary Klafter, Vice President, Legal and Corporate Affairs,
and Corporate Secretary, Intel Corporation |
| Sep. 9, 2009 | Michael A. Wiebe, Principal, Wiebe Associates, LLC |
| Sep. 8, 2009 | Rona Wells, President, InterOrganization Network (ION) |
| Sep. 8, 2009 | Bruce Brumberg, Editor-in-Chief, myStockOptions.com, Brookline, Massachusetts |
| Sep. 8, 2009 | Justin Levis, Senior Research Associate, Council of Institutional Investors |
| Sep. 8, 2009 | Hye-Won Choi, Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Governance, TIAA-CREF, New York, New York |
| Sep. 5, 2009 | Roger Clegg, President and General Counsel, Center for Equal Opportunity |
| Sep. 3, 2009 | Donald H. Meiers, Principal, Miles & Stockbridge P.C. and Dan Gode, Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting, New York University Stern School of Business |
| Sep. 3, 2009 | Franck Devillon |
| Sep. 2, 2009 | Diana Oleskevich |
| Sep. 2, 2009 | John C. Guerra, Jr., CEO, New America Alliance, Dallas, Texas |
| Sep. 2, 2009 | Allen C. Goolsby, Alan C. Stephenson, Alan M. Miller, and William A. Marsh |
| Sep. 1, 2009 | Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Paredes regarding a meeting with representatives of Hewitt Associates LLC; Watson Wyatt & Company; Mercer; Towers Perrin; Marsh & McLennan; and Patton
Boggs LLP |
| Aug. 31, 2009 | Diana K. Oleskevich, CSJA, Justice Coordinator, Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, St.Louis Province, St. Louis, Missouri |
| Aug. 31, 2009 | Carlos F. Orta, President CEO, Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility, Washington, District of Columbia |
| Aug. 29, 2009 | Keith Paul Bishop |
| Aug. 27, 2009 | Mark Whitton |
| Aug. 26, 2009 | James J. Givens |
| Aug. 26, 2009 | Valerie Heinonen, o.s.u., Consultant, Corporate Social Responsibility, on behalf of the Ursuline Sisters of Tildonk |
| Aug. 25, 2009 | Valerie Heinonen, o.s.u., Consultant, Corporate Social Responsibility, on behalf of the Dominican Sisters of Hope |
| Aug. 25, 2009 | Valerie Heinonen, o.s.u., Consultant, Corporate Social Responsibility, on behalf of Mercy Investment Program |
| Aug. 25, 2009 | Valerie Heinonen, o.s.u., Consultant, Corporate Social Responsibility, on behalf of the Sisters of Mercy Regional Community of Detroit Charitable Trust |
| Aug. 25, 2009 | Sumner M. Grant, Executive Director, The Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Board, New York, New York |
| Aug. 24, 2009 | Jack Dolmat-Connell, Chief Executive Officer, DolmatConnell Partners, Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts |
| Aug. 22, 2009 | Catherine Rowan, Bronx, New York |
| Aug. 21, 2009 | Bruce Brumberg, Editor-in-Chief, myStockOptions.com, Brookline, Massachusetts |
| Aug. 19, 2009 | Howard Sherman, President and CEO, GovernanceMetrics International, New York, New York |
| Aug. 18, 2009 | Jesse M. Brill, Chair, National Association of Stock Plan Professionals and CompensationStandards.com |
| Aug. 13, 2009 | Joseph A. Restoule, President, Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. |
| Aug. 13, 2009 | Joseph A. Restoule, President, Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. |
| Aug. 4, 2009 | Ralph S. Saul |
| Aug. 4, 2009 | Bradley L. Kelly, President, Magnum Opus Financial, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
| Jul. 30, 2009 | Harry Pearce, Chairman, Chairmen's Forum |
| Jul. 27, 2009 | Graef Crystal, Emeritus Professor, U.C. Berkeley, Santa Rosa, Colorado |
| Jul. 24, 2009 | Joseph A. Grundfest, William A. Franke Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School |
| Jul. 23, 2009 | Memorandum from the Office of the Chairman regarding a July 9, 2009, meeting with representatives from Patton Boggs and Hewitt Associates |
| Jul. 21, 2009 | Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar regarding a July 16, 2009, meeting with representatives of Marsh & McLennan; Watson Wyatt; Hewitt; Towers Perrin and Patton Boggs |
| Jul. 21, 2009 | Memorandum from the Office of Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar regarding a July 14, 2009, meeting with representatives of Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility |
| Jul. 13, 2009 | Richard W. Leblanc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Law, Corporate Governance Ethics, York University, Toronto, Canada |
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