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Director & Officer Duties: What Every Leader Should Know

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Earlier this year, the FDIC, acting as receiver for Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”), filed a breach of fiduciary duty lawsuit against six officers and eleven directors of the bank. The FDIC alleged that these individuals ignored...more

Jones Day

Sequana: Directors' Duties in a Distressed Landscape

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In Short - The Situation: Directors in England and Wales owe duties to the companies to which they are appointed (and may face personal liability for breaching such duties). Although the Companies Act 2006 obliges...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

How Directors Can Manage the UK Supreme Court’s ‘Balancing Exercise’ in Difficult Times

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Economic downturns can put both companies and their boards to the test. An important judgment from the U.K. Supreme Court in October 2022, the Sequana case,1 clarifies the obligations of directors of a company facing the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Thoughts for Boards of Directors on the COVID-19 Crisis

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Although different in some important respects and rapidly evolving, the global pandemic shares many of the characteristics of other broadscale crisis situations that prior boards of directors have confronted and managed...more

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