Corporate Governance
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 […]
Writing in Kevin LaCroix’s D&O Diary, King & Spalding attorney Michael J. Biles draws on his experience defending officers and […]
“Takes tax avoidance to a whole new level,” says the popular NPR Marketplace commentator,
The possibility that a campaign to mislead the public about environmental harm from carbon pollution is analogous to the long campaign by the tobacco industry to mislead about the dangers of smoking, and that similar legal strategies for critics might be in the cards…
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