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Former CEO Sentenced in Historic Insider Trading Case Under Rule 10b5-1

McGlinchey Stafford on 7/10/2025

On June 23, 2025, U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer of the Central District of California sentenced a former Chairman and CEO of a behavioral healthcare company to 42 months in federal prison. This conviction represents the...more

Midyear observations on the 2025 board agenda

KPMG Board Leadership Center (BLC) on 5/27/2025

Disruption, volatility, and uncertainty aren’t new operating conditions by any means. But the assumptions that have long driven corporate thinking—the role of government, geopolitical norms, and consistency in US policies as...more

What we need to know about corporate governance—but don’t

Cooley LLP on 4/25/2023

In this paper, Seven Gaping Holes in Our Knowledge of Corporate Governance, from the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford, the authors observe that it “is extremely difficult to produce high-quality, fundamental...more

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - V 4, Issue 2, February 2023

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 3/2/2023

Illinois Supreme Court Allows Massive Damages in Biometric Privacy Cases - “The case involves Ohio-based fast-food company White Castle.” Why this is important: Illinois has the strictest biometric privacy law in the...more

Episode 155 -- Tom Fox and Michael Volkov Discuss the Blue Bell Creameries Enforcement Action

The Volkov Law Group on 8/9/2020

On May 1, 2020, Blue Bell pleaded guilty to shipping contaminated ice cream linked to a 2015 listeria outbreak and agreed to pay a fine of $19.5 million ($17.4 million criminal fine and $2.1 million to settle civil false...more

A Senior Executive Is Seriously Ill. When Should a Company Disclose the News?

Fenwick & West LLP on 12/20/2019

The death of Oracle CEO Mark Hurd in October has highlighted a longstanding public company dilemma: whether and when to disclose the news that a senior leader has a serious health challenge. Not only is the topic sensitive...more

Corporate Governance & Executive Compensation Survey 2019

A&O Shearman on 9/11/2019

Concern for environmental and social issues has reached an inflection point. While traditional governance issues that have been a staple of investor advocacy and discussion (the “G” of ESG) continue to be important,...more

Skadden's 2019 Insights: US Corporate Governance Turning Up the Heat

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/23/2019

U.S. public companies face a wide array of challenges, from greater market volatility and increasing economic and geopolitical uncertainty to disruptive technologies, artificial intelligence, social media and cybersecurity...more

Proposed UK Corporate Governance Reforms Target Executive Pay Justification, Employee Engagement

Jones Day on 9/15/2017

The Situation: The UK government has proposed several corporate governance reforms in an effort to improve transparency and accountability in private and public employers....more

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