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Delaware Revamps Its General Corporation Law — Will It ...

What You Need To Know Delaware has adopted significant, much anticipated amendme...

Reporting Portfolio Emissions By Asset Managers

Key Takeaways: Asset managers frequently commit to collect and report on the gre...

Weekly Roundup: March 28-April 3, 2025

Statement by Commissioner Crenshaw Regarding Climate-Related Disclosures Rule Li...

Equity Grant Disclosure Insights

What’s Inside This report offers exclusive insights into how early filers are na...

How Does Settling With an Activist Impact Shareholder R...

An examination of post-settlement stock price and M&A outcomes, as well as other...

Deconstructing the “Anglo-American” Corporate Model

In the mid-1950s, L.C.B. Gower, a pre-eminent U.K. corporate law academic, was a...

Sustainability Without the SDGs: US Policy Shifts and C...

In March 2025, the US formally rejected the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SD...

Navigating the 2025 Proxy Season: Six Key Developments ...

A flurry of changes has created an unusually tumultuous proxy season for many co...

Are There Too Few Publicly Listed Firms in the US?

The number of publicly listed firms in the US peaked in 1996 at more than 8,000 ...

AI in Focus in 2025: Boards and Shareholders Set Their ...

KEY TAKEAWAYS In 2024, public companies and shareholders increased their focus o...

Delaware Enacts Important Corporate Law Reforms

New Law Provides Statutory Clarity for Directors, Officers, and Stockholders SUM...

The Real and Financial Effects of Internal Liquidity: E...

Prior to 2018, U.S. multinational corporations faced a repatriation tax on forei...

Navigating 11th Hour Guidance on Board DE&I

Over the past few weeks, the landscape of board diversity, equity, and inclusion...

The Lessons of Michael C. Jensen

From the 1950s to the middle of the 1970s, a few scholars built the foundations ...

2025 Proxy Season Preview: A New Paradigm for Investmen...

The flurry of activity coming out of the Trump Administration is ushering in a n...

Responding to Stealth Dual-Class Stock

In August of last year, we published a post detailing examples of stealth-dual c...

Understanding and Managing Legal Risk in Corporate DEI

Rapid legal developments in the US related to diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI...

“Under Pressure”: Walking the Fine Line of Section 13(d...

On February 11, 2025, the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance (“Staff”)...

Weekly Roundup: March 21-27, 2025

Shareholder Engagement on Compensation Matters: Special Time-Sensitive Complicat...

Statement by Commissioner Crenshaw Regarding Climate-Re...

Today, the SEC purports to walk away from the Climate-Related Disclosures Rule. ...

Early Filers: Bonuses Up Amid Flat Financial Performance

Key Findings Performance: 2024 median financial performance – as measured by rev...

2025 Environmental and Social Developments

2025 is off to a fast start with several changes in the legal landscape of the e...

Scope, Scale, and Concentration: A New Perspective on t...

The Evolution of Firm Scope and Measurement Challenges Recent discussions on cor...

Sanctioning Negligent Bankers

The financial panic started by Silicon Valley Bank in March 2023 might have been...

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