Avoiding a Bored Board
Compliance Tip of the Day: COSO Governance Framework: Part 2, Oversight
Daily Compliance News: July 11, 2025, The What is a COI Edition
Five Tips for a New Public Company Director
Everything Compliance: Shout Outs and Rants: Episode 156
Compliance Tip of the Day – COSO Objective 1 – Control Environment
Sunday Book Review: June 15, 2025. The Books on Corporate Governance Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: Board Oversight on Internal Controls
Great Women in Compliance: Board Bond - Why Ethics & Compliance Professionals Should Be on Boards and How to Get on One
Tariffs and Trade Series: What Boards of Directors Need to Know
Third-Party Risk The competitive world of banking struggles to keep up with technological advances, particularly in a regulatory environment.
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 4: Don't Be Evil: In the Hot Seat of Data Privacy, Part 1
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Director Duties and Best Practices for the Typical Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation
REFRESH Nonprofit Basics: Designators, Members, Directors, Officers - The Who’s Who of Nonprofit Governance
“Monsters, Inc.” y el buen gobierno corporativo
Market Leaders Podcast Episode 94: Exploring the Perils of Optics-Driven DEI Initiatives with Guest Mira Dewji
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 16: The Political and Legal Maze of ESG in the U.S. and Abroad
Episode 322 -- Checking in on Caremark Cases
Compliance into the Weeds: What Are Boards Doing About AI (Hint: Not Much)
Conflictos de interés en Colombia, nueva regulación
On March 25, 2025, Delaware enacted an amendment (the “Amendment”) to Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”). The Amendment clarifies what materials constitute a corporation’s “books and records.” It...more
On March 25, 2025, significant amendments to the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the DGCL), intended to provide greater certainty to transaction planners in light of recent Delaware case law developments,...more
In a notable opinion that impacts how Delaware corporations consider advancement of litigation expenses to their officers and employees, the Delaware Chancery Court signaled that, when corporations grant a right to...more
Our Securities Litigation and Securities Groups review revisions proposed by the Delaware State Bar Association’s Corporation Law Council to a Delaware bill (SB 21) that would significantly impact the state’s statutory...more
On February 17, 2025, a bipartisan coalition of Delaware lawmakers and the Governor proposed legislation that would, if enacted, address issues raised by recent Delaware judicial opinions and reincorporations by high-profile...more
On February 17, 2025, Senate Bill No. 21 was introduced in the Delaware State Senate to amend the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL)....more
On February 17, 2025, Delaware’s legislative leaders and Governor announced landmark legislation and initiatives that would, if enacted into law, result in welcome and much-needed amendments to Delaware corporate law to...more
The California General Corporation Law expectedly grants inspection rights to shareholders and directors of California corporations. Unexpectedly (at least to practitioners outside California), the GCL extends those rights...more
Neither California's nor Delaware's General Corporation Law expressly prohibits directors from being represented by proxy at board meetings. However, it appears to have been well settled in Delaware since at least 1915 that...more
Effective August 1, 2022, Section 102(b)(7) of the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL) was amended to permit a Delaware corporation to include in its charter a provision eliminating or limiting the personal liability of...more
On March 15, 2023, Chancellor Kathaleen St. J. McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery issued a rare post-trial decision finding a CEO personally liable for millions of dollars in damages for breaching his fiduciary...more
For almost 30 years, the Delaware courts have held that corporate directors are charged with a fiduciary duty of “oversight.” Directors must make sure that their corporations both (1) implement reasonable information and...more
The Court of Chancery’s decision in In re Match Group, Inc. Derivative Litigation1 is the latest example of how the Delaware Supreme Court’s watershed 2014 decision in Kahn v. M & F Worldwide Corp. (MFW)2 has been applied to...more
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The Situation: In response in part to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Delaware legislature amended the Delaware General Corporation Law to address emergency bylaws and related powers exercised by a corporation's board of...more
This issue focuses on important, developing areas of Delaware corporation law and deal litigation, including recent trends in Delaware corporate disclosure law, the Delaware Supreme Court’s important ruling in Marchand v....more
Recently, Delaware corporations faced with demands for books and records under 8 Del. C. § 220 have increasingly been forced to contend with demands for electronic communications, such as emails. Historically, the Delaware...more
Section 223 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”) provides an invaluable remedy to stockholders when there are no directors in office, or when, due to vacancies or newly created directorships, the directors in...more
Delaware General Corporate Law § 226 (the “Custodian Statute”) bestows the Delaware Court of Chancery with the power to appoint a custodian for solvent companies and receivers for insolvent companies in certain circumstances....more
Our Delaware Corporate and Alternative Entity Law attorneys closely followed the opinions coming from Delaware’s Supreme Court and Court of Chancery. Our 2016 Year in Review is a collection of brief summaries of selected...more
We are pleased to share with you the inaugural issue of Insights: The Delaware Edition, a periodic publication addressing significant Delaware deal litigation and corporation law developments. In This Issue: - Q&A...more
A trio of opinions from the Delaware Supreme Court, each authored by Chief Justice Leo E. Strine, Jr., has reaffirmed Delaware’s deference to the business judgment of disinterested corporate decision-makers and restored...more
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I’ve noticed that the drafters of corporate laws seemed to have overlooked the mortality of directors. Section 141(b) of the Delaware General Corporation Law, for example, prescribes the term of directors as follows...more
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