Corporate Governance

ISS Beefs up its Governance Analytics

April 29, 2013

A governance scorecard that Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) provides for its institutional clients will now include information from selected […]

GCs and Compliance Officers Battle for Turf

April 16, 2013

Survey: Compliance professionals say it’s a full time job — theirs. They don’t want to report to the GC either.

Top In-House Legal Salaries are Up, Reflecting Greater CLO Role

March 26, 2013

February/March 2013 Lauren M. Chung, HBR Consulting With greater responsibility comes greater reward, as the saying goes, and it has […]

Corporate Counsel in the Crosshairs

March 26, 2013

In regulatory and criminal investigative matters, an in-house attorney often faces a dilemma – how to balance the duty of […]

New Standards for Aiding and Abetting

March 15, 2013

In a recent case, SEC v. Joseph F. Apuzzo, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals made it […]

What to Expect in the 2013 
Say-On-Pay Season

October 14, 2012

The introduction of mandatory say-on-pay pressured companies and compensation committees to ensure that pay programs were aligned with company performance […]

Valuation Key to Managing IP

September 3, 2012

This article summarizes procedures to measure, control and exploit a company’s intellectual property. The author, a certified public accountant accredited […]

The Evolving Role of the General Counsel

June 19, 2012

A recent Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP poll of 1,300 business professionals found that nearly two-thirds of respondents believe that […]

Can Internal Investigations be Kept From Shareholders?

April 19, 2012

Addressing the question that titles this article, the author first considers the case of Mark Hurd, former chairman, president and […]

Friendly Fire from the SEC

February 13, 2012

In November of 2011, the SEC approved new rules imposing additional listing and disclosure requirements for companies seeking to go […]

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