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- Peter Atkins
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Author Archives: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
2020 Mid-Year Securities Litigation Update
The first half of 2020 brought the spread of COVID-19 and unprecedented changes in daily life and the economy. We discuss how, nevertheless, there has still been a variety of securities-related lawsuits, including securities class actions, insider trading lawsuits, and government enforcement actions. We also discuss developments in the securities laws that have occurred against […]
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Posted in Court Cases, Mergers & Acquisitions, Practitioner Publications, Securities Litigation & Enforcement, Securities Regulation
Tagged Caremark, Class actions, COVID-19, ERISA, Halliburton, Merger litigation, Mergers & acquisitions, Pension funds, Securities litigation, Settlements, Supreme Court
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Delaware Public Benefit Corporations—Recent Developments
Over the last few years, corporate purpose has been under a spotlight. This scrutiny, which has intensified in 2020 and shows no signs of abating, is coming from institutional investors that are integrating the consideration of environmental, social and governance factors into investment and voting decisions, as well as other stakeholders, in particular consumers, employees and […]
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Posted in Comparative Corporate Governance & Regulation, ESG, Practitioner Publications
Tagged Benefit corporation, Corporate forms, Delaware law, DGCL, Disclosure, ESG, State law, Sustainability
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The Performance of Hedge Fund Performance Fees
One of the tenets of modern economics is that agency conflicts can be mitigated by implementing compensation contracts that align the agents interests with those of the principal. Over the past three decades, compensation contracts in the hedge fund industry have sought to achieve this goal by charging a variable performance fee to complement a […]
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Posted in Academic Research, Institutional Investors
Tagged Agency costs, Asset management, Clawbacks, Fund performance, Hedge funds, Incentives, Institutional Investors, Pay for performance, Private equity
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FedNow: The Federal Reserve’s Planned Instant Payments Service
The FedNow Service The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Fed) announced details of its planned FedNow Service on August 6, 2020 in a release describing its core functionality and future implementation. If launched as described in the release, FedNow will be a real-time gross settlement (RTGS) payment system with integrated clearing […]
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The SEC has adopted a set of amendments to the periodic disclosure requirements relating to a registrant’s business, legal proceedings and risk factors, which will go into effect 30 days after publication in the Federal Register. The amendments will affect a wide variety of SEC filings, including upcoming annual and quarterly reports and registration statements […]
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Posted in Accounting & Disclosure, ESG, Legislative & Regulatory Developments, Practitioner Publications, Securities Regulation
Tagged Accountability, Disclosure, Environmental disclosure, ESG, Human capital, Materiality, Regulation S-K, Risk disclosure, SEC, Securities regulation, Transparency
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ESG + Incentives 2020 Report
Shareholders have increasingly highlighted the importance of measures of social and environmental sustainability as a key component of ESG. The COVID-19 crisis and growing focus on racial inequities will only accelerate the demand for companies to expand their definition of social responsibility to include the broader societal impact of the corporation. In recent years, debates […]
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Posted in Accounting & Disclosure, ESG, Executive Compensation, Practitioner Publications
Tagged Accountability, Diversity, Environmental disclosure, ESG, Executive Compensation, Incentives, Management, Pay for performance, Performance measures, Stakeholders, Sustainability
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Leadership in Turbulent Times: Better Foresight, Better Choices
A global pandemic shuts down normal life around the world. Market volatility creates price swings not seen in nearly a century. Millions of people turn out to protest racism and social injustice and call for meaningful and lasting change. To many, the world feels more turbulent and uncertain than it ever has. Many are left […]
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Posted in Boards of Directors, International Corporate Governance & Regulation, Practitioner Publications
Tagged Boards of Directors, COVID-19, International governance, Long-Term value, Management, Risk, Risk management, Risk oversight
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BRT Statement of Corporate Purpose: Debate Continues
A new WSJ op-ed: “‘Stakeholder’ Capitalism’ Seems Mostly for Show” (Lucian Bebchuk and Roberto Tallarita, Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance) posits that the corporate CEOs that signed onto the Business Roundtable’s (BRT) updated Statement of Purpose of a Corporation last year appear to have done so primarily to generate positive PR rather than to reflect […]
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Posted in Accounting & Disclosure, Boards of Directors, ESG, Institutional Investors, Practitioner Publications
Tagged Accountability, Boards of Directors, Business Roundtable, Corporate Social Responsibility, ESG, Institutional Investors, Shareholder primacy, Shareholder value, Stakeholders
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