Proxy Voting and Class Actions

End-to-end support for shareholder voting and class action recovery opportunities

What we do

OUR VALUE

BNY helps investors manage important post-trade corporate event obligations more efficiently, with greater transparency and operational control. Our proxy voting and class action services support investor participation, recovery opportunity capture and risk reduction through streamlined processing and servicing from our expert teams and market-leading outsourced providers.

How we help

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

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Proxy Voting

We help manage the end-to-end voting process for meetings and ballot events across markets, supporting the timely collection, validation and submission of voting instructions. We provide transparency into ballot status and meeting event and voting activity, to help investors participate in governance events with greater confidence and efficiency.

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Class Actions

We help investors identify, evaluate and pursue eligible securities litigation recovery opportunities. We facilitate the collection and organization of required holdings and transaction data, claim filing activity and ongoing case monitoring and payment capture to reduce the administrative burden and bring improved structure and oversight to a complex process.

What you gain

BENEFITS AT A GLANCE

Enhanced Event Oversight

A unified view of important Issuer meeting activity impacting holdings simplifies oversight across governance participation and recovery-related events within one servicing framework.

Reduced Operational Burden

We help minimize manual effort associated with monitoring events, gathering data, managing deadlines, and managing submissions, enabling teams to focus on higher-value priorities.

Improved Outcome Capture

Governance-related and economic value linked to investment activity is captured more effectively. Our services support investor participation in issuer decision-making and the pursuit of eligible financial recovery.

Greater Process Efficiency

Streamlined workflows for corporate events management help improve timeliness, transparency and service experience across proxy voting meetings and class action recoveries.