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Thoughts for Boards: Key Issues in Corporate Governance for 2025 Posted by Martin Lipton, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Friday, January 31, 2025 Tags: Board of Directors, Corporate governance, ESG, Stakeholder 2024 Corporate Governance Practices and Trends in Silicon Valley and at Large Companies Nationwide Posted by David A. Bell and Wendy Grasso, Fenwick […]

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Weekly Roundup: January 31-February 6, 2025

Posted by the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, on Friday, February 7, 2025

Editor's Note:

This roundup contains a collection of the posts published on the Forum during the week of January 31-February 6, 2025

Thoughts for Boards: Key Issues in Corporate Governance for 2025

Posted by Martin Lipton, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Friday, January 31, 2025

Tags: Board of Directors, Corporate governance, ESG, Stakeholder

2024 Corporate Governance Practices and Trends in Silicon Valley and at Large Companies Nationwide

Posted by David A. Bell and Wendy Grasso, Fenwick & West LLP, on Saturday, February 1, 2025

Tags: Board of Directors, Corporate governance, Proxy season, Silicon Valley

Action Items for U.S. Public Companies for 2025

Posted by Beth E. Berg and Claire H. Holland, Sidley Austin LLP, on Sunday, February 2, 2025

Tags: Artificial intelligence, dei, Disclosure, Public Companies, SEC

Financial Institutions MA Key Trends and Outlook

Posted by Ed Herlihy, Richard Kim, and Nick Demmo, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Monday, February 3, 2025

Tags: Banking, FDIC, Financial institutions, M&A

Private Equity for Pension Plans? Evaluating Private Equity Performance from an Investor’s Perspective

Posted by Arthur Korteweg (USC), Stavros Panageas (UCLA), and Anand Systla (UCLA), on Monday, February 3, 2025

Tags: Institutional Investors, investors, Pension, Private equity

CEO and C-Suite ESG Priorities for 2025

Posted by Matteo Tonello (The Conference Board), on Monday, February 3, 2025

Tags: Anti-DEI, anti-ESG, Corporate governance, ESG, Sustainability

Approach to Corporate Enforcement May Become More Business-Friendly

Posted by Anita B. Bandy, Andrea Griswold, and Chad E. Silverman, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, on Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Tags: CFTC, DOJ, Donald Trump, SEC

Embedded Culture as a Source of Comparative Advantage

Posted by Luigi Guiso (Einaudi Institute), Paola Sapienza (Northwestern University), and Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago), on Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Tags: Corporate governance, Culture, economics, Socio-Economic

Proxy Voting Policy for U.S. Portfolio Companies

Posted by John Galloway, Vanguard, Inc., on Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Tags: Board of Directors, executive pay, Proxy voting, Shareholder rights

White-Collar and Regulatory Enforcement: What Mattered in 2024 and What to Expect in 2025

Posted by David B. Anders, Ralph M. Levene, and Randall W. Jackson, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Tags: Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”), DOJ, Regulatory developments, SEC

How the EU’s Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Could Reshape Corporate America

Posted by Luca Enriques (University of Oxford), Matteo Gatti (Rutgers Law School), and Roy Shapira (Reichman University (IDC)), on Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Tags: Corporate governance, ESG, EU, Sustainability

Looking Ahead to 2025

Posted by Krista Parsons and Bob Lamm, Deloitte LLP, on Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Tags: Audit, Audit committee, Board of Directors, GenAI

Outlook for M&A and Activism in 2025

Posted by Kyle A. Harris and Kimberly R. Spoerri, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, on Thursday, February 6, 2025

Tags: Antitrust, Board of Directors, M&A, Shareholder activism

Political Power and Market Power

Posted by Bo Cowgill (Columbia Business School), Andrea Prat (Columbia Business School), and Tommaso M. Valletti (Imperial College Business School), on Thursday, February 6, 2025

Tags: corporate lobbying, Lobbying, Mergers & acquisitions, Policymakers