Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 6, 2022

This post is based on their Deloitte/Society for Corporate Governance memorandum. This post is based on their Deloitte/Society for Corporate Governance memorandum. Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance (discussed on the Forum here ) by Lucian A.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Posner is Special Counsel at Cooley LLP. According to the Associate Director of Enforcement for the SEC’s Philadelphia Regional Office, as the SEC alleged in its complaint, “Pareteum’s executives artificially inflated Pareteum’s revenue numbers to create the illusion of robust revenue growth….Investors

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Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

on Tuesday, November 8, 2022 Editor's Note: Amma Anaman is Associate General Counsel and Legal Relationship Manager, Helle Bank Jørgensen is CEO of Competent Boards, and Chantal Wessels is Vice President, Head of Global Reporting and Corporate ESG at Nasdaq, Inc. Strine, Jr., But boards have lagged behind the ESG fervor.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 30, 2022

Posted by Michael Littenberg, Marc Rotter, and Hannah Shapiro, Ropes & Gray LLP, on Saturday, April 30, 2022 Editor's Note: Michael Littenberg is partner, Marc Rotter is counsel, and Hannah Shapiro is a law clerk at Ropes & Gray LLP. This post is based on their Ropes & Gray memorandum. A Bit of Background and the Broader Context.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Posted by Jacquelyn Burke and Rachel Katz, Cooley LLP, on Thursday, September 15, 2022 Editor's Note: Jacquelyn Burke is special counsel and Rachel Katz is an associate at Cooley LLP. Directors and officers can face significant personal exposure whenever their company is involved in a dispute or investigation. more…).

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 24, 2022

Posted by the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, on Friday, June 24, 2022 Editor's Note: This roundup contains a collection of the posts published on the Forum during the week of June 17-23, 2022. New Climate-Related Financial Disclosures for Private Companies and LLPs. Corporate Racial Equity Tracker.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 8, 2023

Lubelczyk is an Associate at Mayer Brown LLP. Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes Are M&A Contract Clauses Value Relevant to Target and Bidder Shareholders? Schneider is a Partner and Colin O. This post is based on a Mayer Brown memorandum by Mr. Schneider, Mr. Lubelczyk, Martha E.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 29, 2022

We ask that the Commission develop rules to require public companies to disclose sufficient information to allow investors to assess the extent to which firms invest in their workforce. Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. This post is based on a rulemaking petition submitted to the U.S. Jackson, Jr.,

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Harvard Corporate Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Behrens, Giulia La Scala, Shearman & Sterling LLP, on Monday, December 5, 2022 Editor's Note: Matthew Behrens is Counsel and Giulia La Scala is an Associate at Shearman & Sterling LLP. Bebchuk and Roberto Tallarita; For Whom Corporate Leaders Bargain (discussed on the Forum here ) by Lucian A. Strine, Jr.;

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 2, 2023

Posner is Special Counsel at Cooley LLP. The short-term agenda includes a half dozen or so potential proposals that were on the Fall 2022 agenda, but didn’t quite make it out of the starting gate, such as plans for disclosure regarding corporate board diversity and human capital. This post is based on her Cooley memorandum.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 15, 2022

Posted by Kem Ihenacho, Clare Scott, and Anne Mainwaring, Latham & Watkins LLP, on Monday, August 15, 2022 Editor's Note: Kem Ihenacho is partner, Clare Scott is counsel, and Anne Mainwaring is an associate at Latham & Watkins LLP. This post is based on a Latham memorandum by Mr. Ihenacho, Ms. Regulatory focus. more…).

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Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Investors are most supportive, followed by NGO/Third sector and then Companies. Least supportive are Trade Associations and Politicians. the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Mining Association ). the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Mining Association ). Breeden and Harvey L.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 25, 2022

Davison is counsel, and Brooke Cohen and Rachel Scholz-Bright are associates at Ropes & Gray LLP. Skinner, Ropes & Gray LLP, on Monday, April 25, 2022 Editor's Note: Amy Roy and Robert Skinner are partners, William T. This post is based on their Ropes & Gray memorandum. Schanzenbach and Robert H.

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

On December 2, 2022, Columbia Law School will hold its 2022 Conference on Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Governance. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership, the Columbia Law School Center on Corporate Governance, and the law firm of Paul Hastings LLP. M&A and corporate governance.

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Benzinga

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The partnership will enhance Busey's growing suburban Chicago market presence by expanding the company's deposit market share in DuPage and Will Counties, while bolstering its commercial banking relationships and wealth management capabilities. CHAMPAIGN, Ill. and OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill., billion, $8.3 billion in gross loans, $10.7

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Benzinga

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Following our announcement yesterday to merge with ALDS, TAG is aggressively moving forward in building out its public company governance structure, adding these two highly respected industry veterans as independent directors," said Pablo Diaz, CEO of TAG.

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Appraiser Newsroom

MARCH 20, 2024

These valuations have been used by clients to support allocations of purchase price in corporate mergers and acquisitions (for both accounting and tax purposes), litigation and arbitrations, bankruptcy and reorganizations, estate and gift taxes and planning, and corporate planning and internal restructuring.

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Benzinga

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via InvestorWire -- Cerberus Cyber Sentinel Corporation (NASDAQ: CISO ), a managed compliance and cybersecurity provider based in Scottsdale, Ariz., announces that David Bronner has been appointed mergers and acquisitions legal counsel. Scottsdale, Ariz., Full story available on Benzinga.com.

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Benzinga

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The combined holding company will operate under the National Bank Holdings Corporation name and the company's headquarters remains in Denver, Colorado. served as financial advisor to National Bank Holdings Corporation. DENVER, Sept. DENVER, Sept. billion in pro forma total assets, including $5.3 BofA Securities, Inc.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 23, 2024

After a decades-long history of alleged “reckless” and “unsound” practices, including the opening of millions of fake accounts, federal regulators imposed punitive consent orders on Wells Fargo, requiring a compliance and corporate oversight overhaul. A substantive year in review will be documented in ISS SCAS’ forthcoming “Top 100 U.S.

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Shephard Mullin M&A

JULY 17, 2023

In particular, Anderson analyzed the history of disclosure-based deal litigation in Delaware and the Court’s evolving standard for awarding fees where shareholder action has caused a company to issue additional pre-merger disclosures “mooting” pending deal litigation. the “Company”) from merging with Centene Corporation (the “Acquirer”).

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Benzinga

OCTOBER 4, 2022

03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- National Bank Holdings Corporation (the "Company" or "NBHC"), the holding company for NBH Bank, announced today that it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Bancshares of Jackson Hole Incorporated ("BOJH"), the holding company for Bank of Jackson Hole with operations in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Idaho.

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Benzinga

DECEMBER 29, 2023

(OTC: ILUS ) is a Mergers and Acquisitions company focused on acquiring and growing companies in the public safety, industrial, defense and renewable sectors. The company has signed contracts to acquire the controlling interest of an OTC listed SEC Reporting company.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 18, 2024

Public attention usually focuses on the top of organizations –CEOs of public companies or senior partners at law firms. law firms from 2007-2015, using the annual Vault/Minority Corporate Counsel Association Annual Law Firm Diversity Survey as the primary data source.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 25, 2024

Grewal specifically addressed criticism that the SEC has exceeded its authority in bringing actions against crypto companies and what he deemed “crypto asset securities,” maintaining that while crypto assets may be new, the challenged transactions fall within the framework that courts have used for more than 80 years.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 14, 2024

Typically, these cases involve a defendant who is an employee or agent of a company undertaking a takeover, and the defendant buys stock in the target of the takeover, using information that he learned from his client, the prospective bidder. Here, the two companies are linked in a transaction that is probably material to both.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 18, 2024

One of the hallmarks of PCCE is that it brings together academics, regulators, and industry professionals, and allows us to have candid conversations about corporate misconduct and the ways in which we can all work together to improve compliance. And that’s precisely what I’d like to do this afternoon. I’ll simply note they exist. [5]

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Appraiser Newsroom

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Fishman, FASA, FRICS | Financial Research Associates Jay E. Fishman, FASA, is a Managing Director of Financial Research Associates and has been actively engaged in the appraisal profession since 1974. This conference spotlights the exceptional lineup of presenters, each a leading figure in their respective fields. Petersburg, Russia.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 23, 2024

On March 28, 2024, the Council of the Corporation Law Section of the Delaware State Bar Association (DSBA) approved proposed amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL) in order to align the DGCL’s provisions with current market practices following several recent Court of Chancery decisions.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 26, 2023

From employee protection to consumer safety, risk management is a central daily duty of corporate management and has become top of the oversight agenda for corporate boards. Key facts may be uncertain, unknown, and rapidly evolving.

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Farrel Fritz

MARCH 11, 2024

But in Aronov v Khavinson (81 Misc3d 1242(A) [Sup Ct, Kings County Feb. Basic Principles of Bifurcation For those not familiar, “bifurcation” refers to the practice of trying a case in two parts: a liability phase, followed, if the jury renders a plaintiff’s verdict on liability, by a separate damages phase. Or so the thinking goes.

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Appraisal Rights

MAY 31, 2018

As shown in a presentation to the Association of Corporate Counsel , despite predictions (and calls) for the death of appraisal, it remains prominent in discussions of M&A trends.

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Farrel Fritz

JULY 10, 2023

In the menagerie of closely held companies, those owned and controlled by 50/50 business partners pose unique benefits and challenges. The plaintiff company, NW Media, is co-owned 50/50 by former friends Dev Pragad and Jonathan Davis, both of whom also constitute NW Media’s Board of Directors. Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno.

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Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 10, 2022

The rules require proxy cards distributed by public companies and activist shareholders in a contested director election to include both sides’ director nominees, so that shareholders can “mix and match” nominees from the company’s and dissident’s slates.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 12, 2024

At least eight other states—Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, South Dakota—are also considering fair access bills, some of which would apply to payment processors, payment networks, and credit card companies and networks in addition to banks and insurers. BACKGROUND A. FL HB 3 (2023) General.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 24, 2024

Today [January 24], the Commission is considering whether to adopt final rules that will strengthen protections for investors in special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). Suppose a group of strangers came up to you and said: “I have a company. I don’t know what that company is yet.” This essentially describes what SPACs do.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 19, 2022

They are now considered standard practice for businesses responding to serious allegations of financial misconduct and, when properly conducted, play a critical role in determining the credibility of the allegations, the identity of the responsible parties, and the impact of the fraud on the company’s financial statements.

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