
	Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. is a research firm. It offers proxy research in conjunction with turnkey proxy voting solutions, governance research and analysis, end-to-end proxy voting and distribution solutions, turnkey securities class-action services and claims management, and reliable governance data and modeling tools. It covers equity holding within clients&rsquo; portfolios in developed and emerging markets worldwide. It offers research on emerging governance and accounting issues. Within securities class action services, the firm covers U.S. state, federal, and SEC disgorgement actions as well as international securities class actions. It prefers to cover countries that authorize collective investor lawsuits, including, but not limited to, Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, South Korea, and Taiwan. The firm also offers proxy advisory solutions; risk analysis for high-profile mergers and acquisitions; proxy voting and corporate governance solutions; executive compensation analytics; governance risk indicators; voting analytics; global proxy distribution; global share recall; ESG solutions; governance exchange; powers of attorney service; and SCAS notification and distribution services. It caters to institutional investors including investment managers, pension funds, hedge funds and mutual funds; investment companies in the U.S. and Canada; custodian banks; financial-services firms; academics; law firms; corporate issuers; and other corporate governance professionals. Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. was founded in 1985. It is based in Rockville, Maryland with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; Norman, Oklahoma; San Francisco, California; Toronto, Ontario; Brussels, Belgium; London, the United Kingdom; Paris, France; Manila, the Philippines; Tokyo, Japan; Melbourne, Australia; and Singapore. It operates as a subsidiary of MSCI Inc.
