{"id":"AGY-FED-FINANCIAL-053","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States; Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Corporation Finance (federal staff guidance)","state":"","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"FED-FINANCIAL","eco":"","issuer":"SEC Division of Corporation Finance","authority":"Staff interpretation of Regulation 14A","instrument":"Staff Guidance for Conducting Shareholder Meetings in Light of COVID-19 Concerns (issued March 13, 2020; updated April 7, 2020; further updated January 19, 2022)","title":"Staff Guidance for Conducting Shareholder Meetings in Light of COVID-19 Concerns","dateIssued":"2020-03-13","effective":"2020-03-13 (updated 2020-04-07)","end":"Remained posted through 2021Q3 (updated again January 19, 2022)","startDate":"2020-03-13","endDate":"2022-01-19","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["GATH","OTHER"],"addressees":["issuers subject to the proxy rules","shareholder proponents"],"clause":"Changing the Date, Time, or Location of a Shareholder Meeting (Last updated: 4/7/2020)... Issuers are generally required to hold annual meetings of security holders under state law.... [an issuer that has already mailed its proxy materials may change the date, time or location, or switch to a \u0027virtual\u0027 meeting, by issuing a press release, filing it as definitive additional soliciting material and taking reasonable steps to inform intermediaries] so as to allow shareholders to exercise their voting rights under state law.","enforcement":"Staff guidance; treated as guidance, not an order (the assignment\u0027s instruction); the proxy rules themselves carry force under 15 U.S.C. § 78n","functions":["OP corporate governance and annual meetings (moved online or postponed)","MK investor relations","CB shareholders"],"notes":"The staff\u0027s contemporaneous instruction on how every public company was to convert or postpone its 2020 and 2021 annual meetings; guidance only","sourceUrl":"https://www.sec.gov/ocr/staff-guidance-conducting-annual-meetings-light-covid-19-concerns","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":232952,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"AGY-FED-FINANCIAL","url":"/library/AGY-FED-FINANCIAL-053","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-FED-FINANCIAL-053","citation":"SEC Division of Corporation Finance, Staff Guidance for Conducting Shareholder Meetings in Light of COVID-19 Concerns (issued March 13, 2020; updated April 7, 2020; further updated January 19, 2022) (Mar. 13, 2020) (Ex. AGY-FED-FINANCIAL-053)","stateName":"","related":["SEC-13-GM-029"]}