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Author Archives: Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation
DOL Proposes New Rules Regulating ESG Investments
As ESG investing continues to accelerate, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) has proposed for public comment rules that would further burden the ability of fiduciaries of private-sector retirement plans to select investments based on ESG factors and would bar 401(k) plans from using a fund with any ESG mandate as the default investment alternative for […]
Click here to read the complete postFive Ways a Sustainability Strategy Provides Clarity During a Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic is requiring companies to focus on survivability—whether they have the financial, human, and other resources to make it through this period of intense disruption. This is also a time, however, for companies to consider the value of their existing sustainability strategies. Companies with robust sustainability programs are more likely to perform well […]
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Posted in Boards of Directors, ESG, Institutional Investors, Practitioner Publications
Tagged Boards of Directors, Disclosure, Engagement, Environmental disclosure, ESG, Institutional Investors, Materiality, Stakeholders, Sustainability
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The Information Content of Corporate Earnings: Evidence from the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
The Security Exchange Act of 1934 ( “the Act”) is the most expansive secondary market regulation enacted in the history of the United States. The Act was the first federal law to mandate disclosure of audited financial statements, it established the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and is still the basis of much financial litigation. […]
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Posted in Academic Research, Accounting & Disclosure, Securities Regulation
Tagged Accounting, Accounting standards, Audits, Disclosure, Earnings announcements, Earnings disclosure, Financial reporting, Firm performance, Information environment, Securities regulation
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Chancery Court Denies Motion to Dismiss and Application of MFW Safe Harbor
In a 94-page opinion issued last Thursday, Vice Chancellor Laster denied defendants’ motion to dismiss in In re Dell Technologies Inc. Class V Stockholders Litigation, finding that the complaint alleged facts that made it “reasonably conceivable” that the safe harbor established by Kahn v. M&F Worldwide Corp. (“MFW”), 88 A.3d 635 (Del. 2014), would not apply and thus […]
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Posted in Boards of Directors, Court Cases, Mergers & Acquisitions, Practitioner Publications, Securities Litigation & Enforcement
Tagged Boards of Directors, Controlling shareholders, Delaware cases, Delaware law, Dell, Dual-class stock, Merger litigation, Mergers & acquisitions, MFW, Safe harbor
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Roadmapping Practical Human Capital Management Considerations
As discussed in our previous post, in order for companies to successfully manage HCM issues arising in 2020, it will be important for them to be proactive. How companies do that will be a function of each company’s profile, its available resources and its individual culture, but there will be some common themes that emerge. […]
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Posted in Accounting & Disclosure, ESG, Executive Compensation, Practitioner Publications
Tagged Boards of Directors, Corporate culture, COVID-19, Disclosure, Diversity, ESG, Executive education, Human capital, Labor markets, Long-Term value, Management, Oversight, Stakeholders
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An Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Decision in Liu v. SEC
On June 22, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court threw the SEC a lifeline in the highly-anticipated decision of Liu v. SEC. In an 8-to-1 decision, the Justices held that the SEC may continue to obtain disgorgement in federal court, albeit in a significantly narrowed fashion. Although the SEC has routinely sought, and often secured, disgorgement […]
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Posted in Court Cases, Practitioner Publications, Securities Litigation & Enforcement
Tagged Disgorgement, Kokesh, SEC, SEC enforcement, Securities enforcement, Supreme Court
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Does Common Ownership Explain Higher Oligopolistic Profits?
There is compelling evidence that both concentration and profitability in oligopolistic industries have increased over the past two decades. Over roughly the same time period, the concentration of shareholding in the hands of the largest institutional investors has dramatically increased, with an increase in the degree to which investors (such as Vanguard, State Street and […]
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Posted in Academic Research, Institutional Investors
Tagged Asset management, Common ownership, Firm performance, Index funds, Institutional Investors, Ownership
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COVID-19 and Executive Pay
COVID-19 has caused many illnesses and deaths worldwide. It also has caused significant economic loss for many business enterprises and this may impact, in turn, on the compensation those enterprises pay their executives. Today’s column discusses the impact COVID-19 may have on executive compensation. On March 13, 2020, the President of the United States declared […]
Click here to read the complete postWeekly Roundup: June 26–July 2, 2020
Response to US Critics of the French Securities Regulator Position on Activism Posted by Alain Pietrancosta (University of Paris) and Alexis Marraud des Grottes (Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP), on Friday, June 26, 2020 Tags: EU, Europe, France, International governance, Securities regulation, Shareholder activism, Short sales, Transparency Testimony by Chairman Clayton before the Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets Subcommittee U.S. House Committee on […]
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