On May 19, 2025, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill No. 1057 (SB 1057) into law....more
In late 2018, California enacted SB 826, a first-in-the-nation law requiring that a public company headquartered in California have at least one woman on its board of directors. While the law is particularly important for...more
California is the first state to codify boardroom gender diversity requirements. On September 30, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 826, which requires publicly traded companies that were...more
When California's board gender quota bill, SB 826, was introduced last January, I raised several questions...more
Yesterday marked the close of the comment period on the SEC’s proposed incentive compensation clawback rules. You can read my comments here. The proposed rules are fundamentally flawed because the SEC failed to recognize...more