On Wednesday, Deputy Attorney General Monaco announced new DOJ guidance providing a safe harbor to avoid criminal prosecution for companies that identify and disclose misconduct that occu...
Much of 2020 saw a decline in shareholder activist campaign levels, presumably as activists stood back while the world dealt with and responded to a global pandemic.But we suspected that ...
Extreme dislocation and a major sell-off in global equity markets have led to many public companies finding their stock prices at severely depressed levels, often over 50% off last twelve...
U.S. and global stock markets have experienced a significant downturn and increased volatility stemming from the coronavirus (COVID-19), this weekend’s shock in the commodity markets an...
It is obvious that the risks presented by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) transcend “business as usual” for market participants. How should Boards be approaching the risks and opport...
Two recent Delaware decisions have made clear that courts will not give business judgment rule deference where boards of directors allegedly failed to implement or monitor oversight syste...
On September 9, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service released proposed regulations that, if finalized in their current form, would in many cases dramatically reduce the portion of a company...
The Business Roundtable has set out a path toward so-called stakeholder capitalism in its highly publicized Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation. There has been a great deal of media...
