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Rethinking Board and Shareholder Engagement in 2008
We have just released our annual memo identifying areas for focus by corporate governance participants in the coming year: “Rethinking Board and Shareholder Engagement in 2008” (co-authored with our colleague Rebecca C. Grapsas). In the memo, we predict — and encourage — increased efforts by boards of directors to engage shareholders in less contentious, more […]
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Posted in Boards of Directors, Corporate Elections & Voting, Practitioner Publications
Tagged Boards of Directors, Shareholder communications
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A Different View of Stoneridge; and Chairman Cox on Sovereign Wealth Funds
a) The Supreme Court’s Stoneridge decision has received a lot of attention. On this blog, it was summarized here and commented on here. For those who know this Court and who heard the oral argument, the decision is unsurprising. Justice Kennedy’s opinion, however, is broader than necessary to reach the result. He is telling the […]
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Posted in Court Cases, Practitioner Publications, Securities Regulation
Tagged Class actions, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Stoneridge Investment v. Scientific Atlanta
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The Annual Meeting of ALEA
Editor’s Note: This post is from Lucian Bebchuk of Harvard Law School. This post is a call for papers for the annual meeting of the American Law and Economics Association. The meeting, which is expected to include at least 8 sessions on subjects in the corporate field, will take place this spring at Columbia Law […]
Click here to read the complete postStoneridge and the Legislative Role of the Supreme Court
Editor’s Note: This post is from J. Robert Brown, Jr. of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. We have already posted a summary of the decision here. By now the holding in Stoneridge has become well known and widely discussed, including on my site, The Race to the Bottom. The five justices concluded […]
Click here to read the complete postStoneridge
Editor’s Note: This post is from Theodore Mirvis of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its long awaited decision in Stoneridge Investment Partners, LLC v. Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., 552 U.S. __ (2008). The decision affirms the Supreme Court’s tendency to limit implied rights of action under the securities laws. […]
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Posted in Court Cases, Legislative & Regulatory Developments, Securities Regulation
Tagged Stoneridge Investment v. Scientific Atlanta, Supreme Court
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The Constituency Director
“Constituency director” is a somewhat unfamiliar term in the corporate lexicon for public companies. Perhaps even less familiar, in terms of corporate law and corporate governance, is the status of a “constituency director” vis-à-vis the duty of loyalty and traditional fiduciary duty; specifically, is it different than time-honored expectations imposed upon a typical director serving […]
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Posted in Academic Research, Boards of Directors
Tagged Boards of Directors, Constituency directors
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The Corporate Governance Blog’s Exponential Growth
Our Blog, which was founded just 13 months ago, has experienced tremendous growth over this period. Traffic increased more than tenfold during 2007, reaching 144,431 hits in December. Altogether, the Blog received 874,622 hits during 2007. We featured some 191 posts during the year, covering a wide range of subjects. A chart of the traffic […]
Click here to read the complete postHighlights of a Dialogue with Vice Chancellor Leo Strine and Martin Lipton
Recently, the New England Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors hosted a breakfast panel featuring Vice Chancellor Leo E. Strine, Jr. and Martin Lipton of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz. (John L. Reed of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge previously posted on the talk here.) The NACD has released highlights of the talk, […]
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The Top Five Delaware Cases of 2007
Editor’s Note: This post is from Francis G.X. Pileggi of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC. This post is part of the Delaware law series, which is cosponsored by the Forum and Corporation Service Company; links to other posts in the series are available here. Professor J. Robert Brown of the University of Denver College […]
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Posted in Corporate Elections & Voting, Court Cases
Tagged Delaware articles, Delaware cases, Delaware law
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Justice Jacobs on Delaware’s Takeover Law
Recently, in Reinier Kraakman‘s Corporations course here at Harvard Law, Justice Jack B. Jacobs of the Delaware Supreme Court treated students to a highly insightful talk on Delaware’s Takeover Law. Justice Jacobs’s talk provided a rare insider’s perspective on the evolving standards of international takeover law–and the Delaware cases that govern most American acquisitions. Justice Jacobs […]
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Posted in Mergers & Acquisitions, Program News & Events, Speeches & Testimony
Tagged Delaware cases, Delaware law, Takeovers
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