Corporate Governance Intelligence Welcome back to The Quorum, Veridraft's monthly digest of the key corporate governance developments from around the world. Each edition surfaces the stories that boards, directors, general counsel, and company secretaries need to read: regulatory shifts, proxy season dynamics, enforcement actions, board conduct, ESG obligations,
Corporate Governance Intelligence Welcome to the first edition of The Quorum — Veridraft's monthly digest of the most consequential corporate governance developments from around the world. Each edition surfaces the stories that boards, directors, general counsel, and company secretaries need to read: regulatory shifts, proxy season dynamics, enforcement actions,
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has signaled a meaningful procedural shift for the 2025–2026 proxy season, particularly around the handling of shareholder proposals under Rule 14a-8. In late 2025, the SEC indicated it may scale back its traditional “no-action letter” process, meaning companies can exclude
March 2026 delivered one of the sharpest governance enforcement cases in recent UK memory. The FCA fined John Wood Group PLC £12.9m for publishing misleading financial results across 2022, 2023, and the first half of 2024. This was a period during which the Aberdeen-headquartered engineering consultancy was haemorrhaging
The governance community has spent three years treating AI as a boardroom conversation topic. That phase is closing. Fewer than 40% of boards have sufficient AI understanding to provide effective oversight, yet CEOs now rank AI investment as their top priority. The 2026 mandate for directors: move from AI strategy
On 18 March 2026, the European Commission unveiled its most ambitious company law proposal in decades: EU Inc., a single optional corporate form available to any founder across all 27 member states. The concept is simple at one level; incorporate digitally in roughly 48 hours, for under €100, with no