Weekly Roundup: January 24-30, 2025

Private Equity—2024 Review and 2025 Outlook Posted by Andrew J. Nussbaum, Steven A. Cohen, and Igor Kirman, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Friday, January 24, 2025 Tags: Delaware Supreme Court, IPOs, M&A, Private equity Insider Trading Policies: A Survey of Recent Filings Posted by Scott Levi, Maia Gez, and Michelle Rutta, White & Case […]

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Posted by the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, on Friday, January 31, 2025

Editor's Note:

This roundup contains a collection of the posts published on the Forum during the week of January 24-30, 2025

Private Equity—2024 Review and 2025 Outlook

Posted by Andrew J. Nussbaum, Steven A. Cohen, and Igor Kirman, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Friday, January 24, 2025

Tags: Delaware Supreme Court, IPOs, M&A, Private equity

Insider Trading Policies: A Survey of Recent Filings

Posted by Scott Levi, Maia Gez, and Michelle Rutta, White & Case LLP, on Saturday, January 25, 2025

Tags: Form 10-K, Form 20-F, Insider trading, MNPI

Climate and Sustainability Regulations: 2024 End-of-Year Review

Posted by Beth Sasfai, Michael Mencher, and Jack Eastwood, Cooley LLP, on Sunday, January 26, 2025

Tags: Climate, Regulations, SEC, Sustainability

SEC Enforcement: 2024 Year in Review

Posted by Harris Fischman, John Carlin, and Jeannie Rhee, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, on Monday, January 27, 2025

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The Impact of Impact Investing

Posted by Jonathan Berk (Stanford) and Jules H. van Binsbergen (University of Pennsylvania), on Monday, January 27, 2025

Tags: ESG, investing, investors, socially responsible investing

Equity Plan Proposals: Strong Shareholder Support Continued in 2024

Posted by Teddy Lombardo, Linda Pappas, and Tara Tays, Pay Governance LLC, on Monday, January 27, 2025

Tags: equity, proposals, Proxy advisors, Proxy disclosure

M&A Predictions and Guidance for 2025

Posted by Ethan Klingsberg, Freshfields US LLP, on Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Tags: delaware, IPOs, M&A, Private equity

Corporate Ownership and ESG Performance

Posted by Peter Tufano (Harvard Business School), Belen Villalonga (NYU), and Boya Wang (University of Cambridge), on Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Tags: Corporate governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, corporate sustainability, ESG, Family firms

S&P 500 CEO Compensation Trends

Posted by Aubrey Bout, Perla Cuevas, and Brian Wilby, Pay Governance LLC, on Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Tags: CEO compensation, CEOs, S&P 500, TDC

Key Considerations for the 2025 Annual Reporting and Proxy Season

Posted by Maia Gez, Scott Levi, and Michelle Rutta, White & Case LLP, on Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Tags: Cybersecurity, Form 10-K, Proxy season, SEC

How To Implement Shareholder Democracy

Posted by Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago), Oliver Hart (Harvard University), and Helene E. Landemore (Yale University), on Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Tags: Asset Managers, corporate democracy, investors, S&P500

Americas Board Priorities 2025

Posted by Robyn Bew, Jamie Smith, and Barton Edgerton, EY, on Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Tags: board agenda, Board of Directors, Corporate governance, Surveys

Corporate Governance and the Grievance-Based Society

Posted by Michael W. Peregrine (McDermott Will & Emery), on Thursday, January 30, 2025

Tags: Board of Directors, CEOs, Corporate governance, Trust

CEO Turnover at Dual-Class Firms

Posted by Yifat Aran (University of Haifa), Brian Broughman (Vanderbilt), and Elizabeth Pollman (University of Pennsylvania), on Thursday, January 30, 2025

Tags: CEOs, dual-class structure, IPOs, Venture Capital