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Year-End Accounting and Financial Reporting Considerations

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Sunday, January 17, 2021

The current business and economic landscape is unprecedented. With little to no warning, companies have had to adjust to a variety of challenges, including supply chain disruptions, government-mandated shutdowns, implications of the CARES Act, working remotely, and more. While companies have managed through these challenges for the past several months, this year-end close may be […]

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A Look at This Year’s Voting Trends Following the US N-PX Disclosures

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Sunday, January 17, 2021

Familiar Territory Across management proposals, there was not much change this year compared to last. There was a 0.4 percentage point move upwards in the average investor’s support for both all proposals and director elections, and a drop of 0.3 points for Say-on-Pay. These are not exactly headline-grabbing changes, perhaps not even meaningful ones. It […]

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Climate Activism: Status Check and Opportunities for Public Companies

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Saturday, January 16, 2021

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was established in 1992 with the goal of preventing “dangerous” human interference with the climate system. The Paris Climate Agreement was the most recent attempt to establish international cooperation over climate change. Although the United States withdrew from the agreement effective November 4, 2020, President-elect Joe Biden […]

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Financing Year in Review: From Crisis to Comeback

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Saturday, January 16, 2021

The Covid pandemic and fears of a global recession roiled financial markets around the world in March and April: U.S. investment grade risk premiums reached their highest levels since the Great Recession and investment grade bond and commercial paper markets briefly froze; the leveraged loan and high-yield bond markets seized shut; and the amount of […]

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The Rise of Growth Equity—Connecting PE and VC

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Friday, January 15, 2021

Emerging companies have historically been backed by venture capital funds, but as Europe’s startup scene matures, involvement by more traditional private equity investors is growing, particularly in the tech, consumer, and digital health sectors. The number of PE investments in emerging companies has increased year on year, with investments in companies such as Wolt, Moonbug […]

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CEO Succession Practices in the Russell 3000 and S&P 500

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Friday, January 15, 2021

CEO Succession Practices in the Russell 3000 and S&P 500: 2020 Edition provides a comprehensive set of benchmarking data and analysis on CEO turnover to support boards of directors and executives in the fulfillment of their succession planning and leadership development responsibilities. The study reviews succession event announcements about chief executive officers made at Russell […]

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Weekly Roundup: January 8–14, 2020

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Friday, January 15, 2021

The New Paradigm in the C-Suite and the Boardroom Posted by Martin Lipton, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Friday, January 8, 2021 Tags: Boards of Directors, ESG, Institutional Investors, ISS, Long-Term value, Proxy advisors, Short-termism, Stakeholders, Stewardship, World Economic Forum A Letter to the SEC Chairman Posted by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), on Friday, January 8, 2021 Tags: Anti-corruption, Investor protection, SEC, SEC enforcement, SEC rulemaking, Section 1504, Securities enforcement, Securities regulation, Transparency Corporate Governance […]

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DeFi and the Future of Finance

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Thursday, January 14, 2021

While the popular media focuses on Bitcoin reaching record highs, there is something else happening in the crypto space that is largely under the radar screen. It is called DeFi or Decentralized Finance, and we examine its structure, opportunities and risks in our recent paper, DeFi and the Future of Finance. Consider the state of […]

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Compensation Season 2021

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Thursday, January 14, 2021

COVID-19 dominated the compensation landscape in 2020 and will remain a key factor in 2021. The most successful companies have proactively managed compensation programs in response to the pandemic, while maintaining a laser focus on attracting and retaining executive talent. We identify below some of the key factors that will impact the 2021 compensation season. […]

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The SPAC Explosion: Beware the Litigation and Enforcement Risk

By Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation | Published Thursday, January 14, 2021

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) have exploded in popularity. These so-called “blank check” companies are used as vehicles to take companies public without going through a traditional IPO process. In the life cycle of a SPAC, a management team forms a new public company (the SPAC) for the express purpose of identifying and acquiring an […]

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