I am responding to the Council of Institutional Investors' (“CII”) request that the NASDAQ Stock Market (“NASDAQ”) and New York Stock Exchange amend its listing standards to require companies seeking to go public with dual class shares (classes of common stock with unequal voting rights)...

The Securities and Exchange Commission's (“SEC” or “Commission”) recent staff roundtable on the proxy process, and its resulting guidance, interpretation and proposed rules on limiting the use of shareholder proposals, regulating proxy advisors and their creation of shareholder voting...