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On August 24, 2021, Governor Phil Murphy signed into law legislation permitting New Jersey corporations and financial institutions to hold shareholders' meetings in part or solely by means of remote communication.

Following recent media coverage, attention is now spreading to onboarding activities involving an incoming CEO and new board chairs.

March 27, 2020 (New York)— International law firm Proskauer represented private investment firm Saddle Point Management, L.P. in its investment in Stericycle Inc.,

SEC Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar gave a speech at the New York Stock Exchange on "Boards of Directors, Corporate Governance and Cyber-Risks".

On May 7, 2008, Governor Sonny Perdue signed Senate Bill 436 into law. Senate Bill 436 allows, among other things, for the bylaws of a publicly traded corporation incorporated under the laws of Georgia to set a director voting standard greater than the plurality standard contained in Georgia Code Section 14-2-728.

With its latest funds, Slow Ventures will maintain its strategy of entering at the pre-seed and seed stages, and continuing to support and invest in the later stages as these companies grow.

John Jenkins at DealLawyers.com took note of this recent blog by Professor Ann Lipton concerning the stockholder vote at The Tribune Publishing Company.

Owners of businesses, whether the businesses are organized as corporations, LLCs or partnerships, frequently agree that they will not compete with the business while they are owners and for a specified period after they cease to be owners.

On November 7, 2006, the SEC’s revisions to Item 1.01 and Item 5.02 of Form 8‑K will become effective for all triggering events occurring on or after that date. Early compliance is not permitted with respect to the Form 8-K amendments.

In accordance with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Dodd-Frank Act"), on August 26, 2010 New York Stock Exchange LLC ("NYSE") filed a proposed rule change with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") to prohibit NYSE member organizations from voting uninstructed shares if the matter voted on relates to executive compensation.

If, as they say, past is prologue, then boards of directors in the United States should follow closely lessons learned by their European and British counterparts when it comes to...

Corporate directors and officers have a long list of things that can keep them up at night.

As we are about to begin the college football season, we could think of no better person to kick off our first episode than Josh Whitman, the Director of Athletics for the University of Illinois.

Home Depot was recently hit with a books-and-records suit in the Delaware Court of Chancery, Frohman v. Home Depot, which seeks documents relating to the giant retailer's data security breach last September.

In a recent post, UCLA Professor Stephen Bainbridge concludes: "And the law is that suits claiming woke directors breached their fiduciary duties by their decisions about how the corporation behaves in the political arena are non-starters".

On September 30, Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed a new California law requiring female presence on boards of public companies headquartered in California.

It is critical for companies with operations in the United States to understand the customary benefits and protections afforded by corporate officers in US companies...

Judge Scheindlin from the Southern District of New York precluded the SEC from seeking wide-ranging disgorgement in an order issued in the SEC v. Wyly case.