Leonard Wood

Leonard Wood

March 16, 2022 | The Recorder

Requirements and Guidance for SEC's New Universal Proxy Rule

The new rules will dramatically change the methods by which proxy contests at public companies have been conducted for decades and may make public companies more vulnerable to shareholder activism campaigns, according to Sidley Austin's Derek Zaba.

By Derek Zaba and Leonard Wood

6 minute read

April 26, 2017 | National Law Journal

New Pressure for Energy Over Environment?

A well-worn stereotype portrays American corporations and particularly the energy industry as ambivalent at best about the environment. However, increasingly, major asset managers and investors have been asserting their views on the relationship between the well-being of the environment and the strength of their returns.

By Margaret Peloso, Leonard Wood and Corinne Snow

10 minute read