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Board policies may be less legally binding than bylaws, but Delaware courts are starting to take them much more seriously. Continue reading
Posted on September 17, 2010 10:10 AM
CNX Gas thaws the controlling stockholder freeze-out role for special committees. Continue reading
Posted on July 16, 2010 12:01 PM
The merits of proxy access have been endlessly debated. But Gregory Taxin, co-founder of Glass, Lewis & Co. and now a managing member at Spotlight Advisors LLC, says a more systemic problem exists within the process for electing boards of directors. Continue reading
Posted on May 28, 2010 9:36 AM
There is a strong possibility that a final financial reform bill will grant shareholders an advisory vote on executive compensation. The measure may help quell populist rage on executive pay, but Amy Goodman says standardizing say-on-pay doesn't make sense. Continue reading
Posted on May 26, 2010 11:24 AM
Lax corporate governance didn't cause the financial crisis, says Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP partner Ira Millstein. But the complexity of financial services firms clouded the ability of boards to identify risk. Continue reading
Posted on May 20, 2010 9:17 AM
Corporate law has long provided a framework for how corporations should be structured and run. But Ira Millstein says it took a succession of events in the 1980s and 1990s before boards took notice. Continue reading
Posted on May 17, 2010 10:56 AM
What was once a set of fugitive ideas confined to a few college campuses and law firms has proliferated into a well-funded, sprawling and interlocking set of institutions. We provide a guide to the corporate governance complex. Continue reading
Posted on May 14, 2010 1:01 PM
In an appraisal case, Delaware's Leo Strine refuses to defer to the price resulting from a suspect merger process. Continue reading
Posted on May 14, 2010 12:56 PM
Presiding directors have begun to play a critical role in major transactions. Continue reading
Posted on May 14, 2010 12:55 PM
There is no silver bullet for stockholders seeking to insulate themselves from the Trados decision. But carefully drafted contractual rights can help. Continue reading
Posted on May 14, 2010 12:55 PM
Conventional wisdom holds that public companies are owned by shareholders. Latham & Watkins partner Charles Nathan says the truth is much more complicated. Continue reading
Posted on May 14, 2010 9:28 AM
Latham & Watkins partner Charles Nathan says with no empirical evidence to prove that "so-called" good governance practices improve corporate performance, the entire governance complex runs on little more than faith. Continue reading
Posted on May 11, 2010 2:07 PM
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Ken deRegt will retire as head of fixed income at Morgan Stanley and be replaced by Michael Heaney and Robert Rooney. For other updates launch today's Movers & shakers slideshow.
Apax Partners offers $1.1 billion for Rue21, the same teenage fashion chain it took public in 2009. More video
