{"id":1693,"date":"2020-03-16T16:34:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T20:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seci.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2020-03-16T16:34:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T20:34:17","slug":"annual-meeting-processes-impact-of-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/annual-meeting-processes-impact-of-the-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Meeting Processes \u2013 Impact of the Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 13, 2020 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/news\/press-release\/2020-62\">SEC issued guidance<\/a> to \u201cassist public companies, investment companies, shareholders, and other market participants affected by COVID-19 with their upcoming annual shareholder meetings\u201d.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/ocr\/staff-guidance-conducting-annual-meetings-light-covid-19-concerns?auHash=zrsDVFen7QmUL6Xou7EIHYov4Y6IfrRTjW3KPSVukQs\">staff guidance<\/a> addresses changing meeting dates and locations as well as the use of technology for \u201cvirtual\u201d meetings.\u00a0 The guidance provides processes to make changes without the expense of an additional paper mailing to shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>You can find a comprehensive review of the SEC\u2019s guidance and related state law considerations in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nelsonmullins.com\/idea_exchange\/alerts\/securities_alert\/all\/virtual-reality-arrives-for-shareholders-meetings-legal-and-practical-considerations#_ftn4\">Nelson Mullins Securities Alert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As always, your thoughts and comments are welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 13, 2020 the SEC issued guidance to \u201cassist public companies, investment companies, shareholders, and other market participants affected by COVID-19 with their upcoming annual shareholder meetings\u201d.\u00a0 The staff guidance addresses changing meeting dates and locations as well as the use of technology for \u201cvirtual\u201d meetings.\u00a0 The guidance provides processes to make changes without &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/annual-meeting-processes-impact-of-the-coronavirus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Annual Meeting Processes \u2013 Impact of the Coronavirus<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"coauthors":[154],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reporting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seciblog.pli.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}