Entries tagged "Ira Millstein"
For decades now, Ira Millstein, a senior partner at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP (pictured), has been the dean of corporate governance lawyers -- so much so that he has an academic center, the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at Yale, with his name on it. Millstein is to corporate governance what Marty Lipton is to corporate prerogatives: the law giver, the man of authority. And so, when Millstein writes a piece, with former Bankers Trust (here's blast from the past) chairman George Vojta, that confronts the disaster in front of us, it's worth a close read. (Bankers...
Speaking at the annual American Law Institute-American Bar Association conference on corporate governance, Ira Millstein, a partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, explained Thursday to corporate directors and executives that they need to take new steps to learn who their investors are, find out what issues they care about and begin to seriously communicate with shareholders. If they don't listen to his advice, expect unwelcome changes that will force that discussion, Millstein added. ...
