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John Wick - What You Need To Know about the Corporate Transparency Act
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Episode 322 -- Checking in on Caremark Cases
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A Primer On Trusts - A Podcast with Janathan Allen
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How should attorneys advise their clients who are new to a public company board? Where should a corporate secretary start if asked to provide an orientation for a public company board? Former SEC Special Counsel Brian Soares...more
The Q1 2025 edition of the Public Company Watch highlights critical updates and regulatory changes affecting public companies. Staying informed on these topics is crucial for effective compliance and strategic planning....more
The ink has barely dried on Delaware's hotly debated amendments to its General Corporation Law and already another company has proposed reincorporation in Nevada. In preliminary proxy materials filed yesterday with the...more
The Mysterious Boundary Beyond Which “Personal” Relationships Jeopardize a Director’s Independence - In a recent enforcement action, the SEC concluded that the relationship between James Craigie and an officer of Church &...more
On January 27, 2025, US Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Hester Peirce gave the keynote address at the Northwestern Securities Regulation Institute in which she offered her personal views on how public...more
While it remains to be seen, 2025 may go down in history as the year of Dexit. A few weeks ago, I wrote that several companies that had filed proxy materials proposing to reincorporate from Delaware to Nevada. Last Friday,...more
Drawing on insights from our interactions with audit committees and business leaders, the KPMG Board Leadership Center highlights nine issues for the audit committee to consider for the year ahead....more
Becoming a first-time director of a public company is a goal not easily achieved and can represent a significant personal and professional accomplishment, giving an individual a platform to share their expertise to help a...more
Here we are again—another year of SPAC ennui. We’re hearing derisive comments about the death of SPACs, unending deadline extensions, almost 200 liquidations, 70 deal terminations, and general SPAC malaise. If you’ve followed...more
Please join us for our 5th Annual Corporate & Securities Counsel Public Company Forum. This virtual half-day program will feature panel discussions focused on timely and practical guidance related to the latest developments...more
As SPAC litigation continues to proliferate, it is more important than ever that officers and directors of companies undertaking a de-SPAC transaction be mindful of litigation risks and adopt strategies for managing them....more
Looking for compliance training and networking in your area? SCCE’s Regional Compliance & Ethics Conferences offer practitioners convenient, local compliance training, including updates on the latest news in regulatory...more
The SPAC market has withstood many challenges throughout 2021, including softening of the private investment in public equity (PIPE) market for a majority of the year after a very robust first quarter for initial business...more
A Win for Deal Certainty, Delaware Court of Chancery Orders Closing of Cake Supplier Acquisition; Under Armour to Pay $9M to Settle SEC Charges Involving Disclosure Failures; First Circuit Upholds Decision Applying Federal...more
The demand for Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) formations in the Cayman Islands increased through the first quarter of 2021 following robust performance in 2020. Whilst the second quarter of 2021 has seen a...more
Special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”), it seems, are everywhere. SPACs have been around for decades, but use of a SPAC to take a company public without a traditional initial public offering (“IPO”) has recently...more
On February 12, 2021, the Republican members of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs wrote a letter to the Acting Chair of the SEC bashing a recently proposed rule of Nasdaq that would promote corporate...more
In the News. Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) published its proxy voting guidelines updates for 2021, which include new and updated voting recommendations on federal forum and exclusive forum provisions in companies’...more
Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted amendments to the proxy rules. ...more
Corporate Governance and Securities Law Developments - Directors Can Be Held Liable for Failure to Oversee “Mission Critical” Regulatory Compliance - On October 1, the Delaware Court of Chancery refused to dismiss a...more
On August 21, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued two interpretive releases involving proxy voting and proxy voting advice. In the first release, the SEC provided guidance regarding the responsibilities of...more
On August 21, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued guidance to clarify investment advisers’ fiduciary obligations when voting client proxies. On the same day, the SEC also issued an interpretation of Rule 14a-1(l)...more
The duties imposed on compensation committees of publicly traded companies have evolved and grown over time. The fifth edition of the Compensation Committee Handbook, authored by our Executive Compensation and Benefits Group,...more
Compensation-related litigation and threats of litigation continued to significantly impact public companies in 2017. These companies should be mindful of issues that were raised in recent litigation: proxy disclosure,...more
For many months, we have been speculating about how the results of the 2016 presidential election would impact employee benefits policy going forward. Now that Donald Trump has won the election and Republicans have secured a...more