10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending July 19, 2025
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 242: Business Planning in Healthcare & Life Sciences with Jennifer McEwen of Maynard Nexsen
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) Explained
Everything Compliance: Episode 156, To Document or Not Edition
Everything Compliance: Shout Outs and Rants: Episode 156
Sunday Book Review: June 15, 2025. The Books on Corporate Governance Edition
Corporate Divorce – Preventing and Managing the Break-Up of a Business Partnership
Compliance into the Weeds: Of Wal-Mart, Tariffs and Stakeholder Capitalism
Sunday Book Review: April 27, 2025, The Books on Business for May Edition
Daily Compliance News: April 24, 2025, The Made in Malaysia Edition
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Wolf Greenfield’s New Shareholders
Navigating Disputes Within Your Health Care Practice
When a co-shareholder purchases the debt obligations of the company without partners' knowledge
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JONES DAY TALKS®: Five Pillars of Series A Shareholder Rights: A Discussion for VC Investors
“Monsters, Inc.” y el buen gobierno corporativo
Marketing Minute Video with NP Strategy: Mastering Stakeholder Engagement
Conflictos de interés en Colombia, nueva regulación
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On July 22, 2025, the Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) released reasons for its decision to cease-trade a shareholder rights plan of Greenfire Resources Ltd. The rights plan had been adopted in response to the announcement...more
In this issue, we recap significant developments in the Delaware courts affecting corporations, their boards and managements. Don’t Call It a Comeback: A Decade Later, the Corwin Doctrine Still Packs a Knockout Punch - ...more
This article is the second of a three-part series analysing the decision of Justice Martin in Glendina Pty Limited & Ors v NKWE Platinum Ltd (2025) SC (Bda) 15 Civ – the first “fair value” appraisal claim under section 106...more
Recently, Nevada passed new legislation (AB 239) to amend the Nevada Revised Statutes to provide a number of statutory liability protections, including de-emphasizing the use of Delaware case law in interpreting Nevada law....more
Public company boards are facing an unprecedented convergence of destabilizing forces, including geopolitical shocks, inflation, supply-chain disruptions, social unrest, and rapid technological change. At the same time,...more
Quelque chose de relativement rare s’est produit au premier trimestre de 2025 dans le domaine des fusions et acquisitions (« F&A ») de sociétés ouvertes au Canada : Une proposition prétendument « supérieure » à celle visée...more
The Supreme Court of Delaware reversed the Court of Chancery's application of the entire fairness standard to a company's decision to redomesticate. In the proceedings below, the minority shareholders of TripAdvisor, Inc. and...more
In a recent decision, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Courts’ Court of Appeal reaffirmed the statutory rights of directors under the BVI Business Companies Act, 2004 (the “BCA”) to inspect company documents, including...more
The English Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Saxon Woods Investments Limited v. Francesco Costa ([2025] EWCA Civ 708) provides clarification on the application of directors’ fiduciary duties and the interpretation of good...more
In the Sunday Book Review, Tom Fox considers books that would interest compliance professionals, business executives, or anyone curious about the subject. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership,...more
Last month, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law Senate Bill 29 (SB 29), introducing significant amendments to the Texas Business Organizations Code (TBOC). Chief among these are the codification of the “business...more
Delaware has recently enacted two sets of amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”). One from 2024 is Senate Bill 313, which made explicit the right of a corporation to grant governance rights to a...more
In this episode, Mayer Brown partners Andrew Noreuil and Brian Massengill discuss this year’s amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law, which have fundamentally altered the landscape for conflicted transactions. Our...more
Not to be outdone by Delaware and Texas, the Nevada Senate voted unanimously on May 21, 2025, to adopt Assembly Bill No. 239 (AB 239), which provides for significant amendments to the Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS) governing...more
On May 14, 2025, Texas Governor Abbott signed Senate Bill 29 (“S.B. 29”) into law, significantly reforming the Texas Business Organizations Code (“TBOC”) to promote Texas as a preferred state of incorporation for both public...more
Amendments to Section 144 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL) broaden safe harbor protections for interested director and officer transactions and extend such protections to controlling stockholder transactions....more
On March 25, Delaware adopted significant amendments to §§ 144 and 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law which aim to provide greater clarity and predictability to corporate fiduciaries in light of certain recent...more
I have previously noted certain provisions of a bill amending Nevada's business entity statutes, AB239. See Nevada Bill Would Impose A Duty That Directors Be Informed and Nevada Bill Would Expressly Allow Directors To...more
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
On March 25, Delaware governor, Matt Meyer, signed into law Substitute 1 to Senate Bill 21 (SB 21), following its rapid approval by the Delaware state legislature. This legislative measure aims to counter the current trend of...more
In Jacobs v. Akademos, the Delaware Chancery Court ruled that a cash-out merger that provided common shareholders in a privately held corporation, Akademos, Inc., with no value was nonetheless entirely fair. This decision...more
The latest edition of Davies’ Governance Insights is now available. In this issue, we review the Manti Holdings decision from Delaware. For boards, nominees and nominating shareholders, the decision is a reminder of the...more
Invoking the recent Delaware Supreme Court decision Kellner v. AIM ImmunoTech Inc., 320 A.3d 239 (Del. 2024) (“Kellner”), the Court of Chancery held that equitable challenges to the enforceability of advance notice bylaws are...more
Earlier this year, the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issued Formal Opinion 514 addressing a lawyer’s obligations for advising an organizational client when the advice might also be relied...more
On March 25, 2025, Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer signed amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL), introducing notable changes to Sections 144 and 220 of the DGCL. These amendments took immediate effect and may...more