Glass Lewis
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Type | Private |
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Industry | Governance Solutions |
Founded | 2003 |
Headquarters | , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Kevin Cameron, , Carrie Bush, President |
Products | Proxy Vote Management Software, Proxy Paper Research Reports, Governance Hub, |
Services | Active Ownership Engagement Solution; Controversy Alerts; Equity Compensation Plan Advisory; Proxy voting policies; M&A and other financial transaction research; regulatory reporting; class-action settlements; share recall support |
Number of employees | 360 [1] |
Subsidiaries | Glass Lewis Europe Ltd, IVOX Glass Lewis, CGI Glass Lewis, Glass Lewis Corporate (affiliate) |
Website | www |
Glass, Lewis & Co. is an American proxy advisory services company. Glass Lewis provides governance services that support engagement among institutional investors and corporations through its research, proxy vote management and technology platforms. Glass Lewis helps institutional investors make voting decisions by researching governance, business, legal, political and accounting risks. Glass Lewis currently has approximately 37% of the market for proxy advisory services. [2]
Founded in 2003, Glass Lewis is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in New York, Washington DC, Kansas City, Ireland, Germany, and Australia.[3]
In September 2006, Glass Lewis acquired Sydney-based proxy advisory firm Corporate Governance International, which then became known as CGI Glass Lewis. In November 2008, Glass Lewis acquired , a political and economic advisory firm based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1973 and rated among the Best Analysts of the Year[4] by Institutional Investor magazine, Washington Analysis anticipates and analyzes the impact of political, legislative and regulatory developments on the financial markets.
In June 2015, Glass Lewis acquired IVOX GmbH, Germany’s leading independent provider of proxy advisory and governance services for institutional investors. [5]
Glass Lewis is owned by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, and the Alberta Investment Management Corp.
Notable Policies[]
Glass Lewis has stated that it will use its shareholder proxy to vote against boards of directors that are not adequately diverse.[6][7]
References[]
- ^ "About Glass, Lewis & Co". Glass, Lewis & Co. Retrieved 2015-10-13. employee count at Glass, Lewis & Co.'s website
- ^ "Issue - Glass Lewis". execcomp.org.
- ^ "About Glass Lewis". Glass Lewis.
- ^ "Instututional Investor Leading Analysts". Institutional Investor. Retrieved 2012-04-05.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-12-01. Retrieved 2015-10-13.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Glass Lewis 2018 Proxy Paper Guidelines" (PDF).
- ^ Weinbar, Sharon. "How big money can drive diversity in venture capital – TechCrunch". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
External links[]
- Business organizations based in the United States
- Financial services companies established in 2003
- Proxy firms