Corporate Governance
AIG and Bear Stearns top a list of defendants that took major hits in class action settlements last year. The […]
The SEC is definitely bullish on its Dodd-Frank Whistleblower program, judging from its report to Congress a few months ago […]
In January the SEC issued its first ever whistleblower award to an “outsider” – someone who was not an employee […]
At the same time that budgets are flat or increasing modestly, the job of legal departments keeps getting bigger and […]
Companies are advised not to become complacent about climate change and sustainability disclosure obligations, despite the fact there has been scant followup to a…
A report commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute in 1982 outlined several models for climate change, all of them pointing […]
Companies typically devote a lot of attention to preparing the proxy statement and the solicitation and tabulation of votes, but another set of issue….
It was already getting more difficult for companies to recruit board members, but following the Yates Memo of September last […]
In 2014, nearly 95 percent of all M&A deals generated a lawsuit. It was down to less than 22 percent […]
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has proposed revising the definition of “materiality,” an important concept for serious investors and often […]
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