Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 8, 2022

Business leaders throughout the country stepped up to the challenge of combatting racial injustice by pledging funds and taking action to address inequity within their workforces, local communities and society at large. DEI is no exception.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

These concerns have now been compounded by skepticism about whether ESG can actually drive financial performance for companies and investors alike. [3]. The vast majority of S&P 500 companies are now tying executive compensation to some form of ESG performance— growing from 66 percent in 2020 to 73 percent in 2021. Introduction.

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Business Wire M&A

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--President Director and CEO of Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat), Vikram Sinha, discussed the story of Indosat, the most successfully merger that empowers Indonesia.

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M&A Leadership Council

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Steven is a leader of our Metro NY M&A Roundtable and provides industry insights across the M&A landscape. Steven joined WTW in August, 2023 from Wipro where he led Corporate Development for the iDEAS global business line. Last name: Rosenberg Special Guest:

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Audit Board

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The report is based on a worldwide survey to identify current and emerging risks for each region, followed up with roundtables and interviews to discover leading practices for internal auditors. The featured topics for the North America reports are cybersecurity, human capital, market changes, and business continuity.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 27, 2022

Why private company boards need outside directors. Tags: Business Roundtable , Charter & bylaws , Corporate purpose , Director compensation , ESG , Shareholder primacy , Shareholder proposals , Stakeholders. Posted by Maria Moats, Shawn Panson, and Carin Robinson, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, on Monday, May 23, 2022.

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Audit Board

MAY 9, 2023

Most people may think of climate change action as primarily involving scientists and governments — but there is a clear geopolitical angle to it that keeps businesses and other organisations up at night. Businesses are more visible and more actively scrutinised than ever before. degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 16, 2023

As we recently explained , major asset managers such as BlackRock play a critical role in supporting companies as they seek to fulfill their fundamental purpose of pursuing long-term, sustainable value creation. So too Adam Smith, the father of market capitalism, in The Theory of Moral Sentiments , the predecessor to The Wealth of Nations.

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IVSC

JULY 4, 2022

Minister Indranee Rajah joined valuation, business and finance leaders at the IVSC Asia launch in Singapore. This signifies Asia’s growing role in raising the standards of valuation; and Singapore’s growth as a Business Valuation (BV), Intangible Assets (IA) Valuation, and Real Estate (RE) Valuation hub.

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M&A Leadership Council

AUGUST 1, 2023

These columns cover one or more likely CMAS ® exam question and will help you accelerate completion of this important career credential. Why would a newly combined company want to have different pay plans for its units? Incentive pay targets vary by type of company. Because the units may have very different pay environments.

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M&A Leadership Council

AUGUST 24, 2023

Cybersecurity audits should be a very comprehensive review of the existing digital environment of the target company that includes a wide variety of different platforms and tools. Third, the review of software tools such as email and document management should be analyzed to thoroughly review the target company’s environment.

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M&A Leadership Council

JULY 13, 2023

Here again, precedent transactions share several of these disadvantages with their comparable company brethren. Where were we in the business cycle when the transaction closed? How competitive was the M&A market for businesses like this at the time of the deal? Was the stock market particularly strong or weak?

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M&A Leadership Council

JULY 13, 2023

Here again, precedent transactions share several of these disadvantages with their comparable company brethren. Where were we in the business cycle when the transaction closed? How competitive was the M&A market for businesses like this at the time of the deal? Was the stock market particularly strong or weak?

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M&A Leadership Council

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

SaaS Executives Share 5 Lessons By John Christman, Former Corporate Development Global Head of M&A Integration, Cognizant Technology Solutions Digital transformation is increasingly driving the acquisition of new, different and non-traditional businesses that require a substantially different approach to integration.

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ThomsonReuters

JULY 11, 2023

That relationship was shifted into higher gear by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic as many companies turned to their tax and accounting professionals to help keep their businesses afloat. Tax preparation : Tax season is obviously a very busy time of year. Your business clients are no exception.

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Reynolds Holding

JUNE 16, 2022

Both are tools for boards and management to guide business strategy, risk management and capital allocation in a manner that best serves the financial well-being of a business, and in turn, the interests of shareholders. Stakeholder capitalism is neither new nor a niche view.

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 6, 2024

The Business Roundtable proclaims the answer to be “for the benefit of all stakeholders – customers, employees, suppliers, communities and shareholders.” Asset managers, both private and public, use their voting power to pressure companies to do more for all those they affect but who do not own shares. A virtuous cycle results.

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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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ThomsonReuters

JANUARY 18, 2024

Accounting professionals are the financial backbone of a company and, in today’s complex environment, they are increasingly providing clients with strategic and forward-looking guidance. For example, an accountant should be involved in determining the most appropriate tax accounting and financial reporting software for the company ’ s use.

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ThomsonReuters

JULY 6, 2023

In today’s ultra-competitive business landscape, being an accountant means far more than preparing tax returns or compiling financial statements. Sometimes, the best business insights come directly from those you serve. By offering advisory services, your firm can become a strategic partner versus a compliance processer.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 9, 2023

2] A corporate-funded think tank reported that “[r]obo-voting enhances the influence of proxy advisory firms, undermines the fiduciary duty owed to investors, and poses significant threats to both the day-to-day management and long-term strategic planning of public companies.” [3]Robo-voting Policymakers are concerned about robo-voting.[1]

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Cooley M&A

JUNE 10, 2020

On May 27th, Andy Pasternak, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer at Horizon Therapeutics and Eric Tokat, a partner in the healthcare practice at Centerview Partners joined Cooley M&A co-chair, Barbara Borden for a discussion of the life sciences M&A market, with a focus on business development. Credibility is key.

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Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

To shed light on these concerns and gain perspective about the potential illusory or short-term nature of ESG, I conducted a survey of the committee charters of the top 50 companies in the Fortune 100. My survey revealed that 43, or 86 percent, of large companies have a board-level committee or committees responsible for oversight over ESG.

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 26, 2023

Cyber risk and the attendant disclosure obligations have been front-and-center for public companies for a long time, and the SEC has underscored the importance of cyber disclosures. 10] The Commission proclaims its “indifference” to companies’ cyber practices, [11] and the final rule is slimmer in detail than the proposed rule.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 28, 2022

And, one of those areas is Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs. I hope the roundtable will be one of many, and that such discussions will lead to academic work, public input, and engagement from all stakeholders and interested parties. So today’s topic is particularly apt. As you are all aware, the U.S.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Had we built flexibility into the rule, listing exchanges and companies could have developed sensible approaches to achieving the laudable goal of clawing back compensation paid on the basis of subsequently restated financial metrics. Second, the rule applies to too many company employees. Accordingly, I cannot vote to adopt this rule.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 3, 2024

3] SAB 121 directs public companies that safeguard crypto assets for clients to put a liability and corresponding asset on their balance sheet and adjust them as the value of the asset changes. It is driving broker-dealers to allocate significant capital to their crypto custody businesses or to avoid the business altogether.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 15, 2022

The increasing demand for stakeholder governance was sparked, in part, by the Business Roundtable’s August 2019 statement on the purpose of the corporation. [2] The increasing demand for stakeholder governance was sparked, in part, by the Business Roundtable’s August 2019 statement on the purpose of the corporation. [2]

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 7, 2024

Since the 1970s, when the work of Milton Friedman , Michael Jensen , and Frank Easterbrook took hold in business schools, activists and raiders in high-profile proxy fights and hostile takeovers on Wall Street have wrapped their arms around the shareholder-primacy narrative to advance their own short-termist objectives.

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 19, 2023

They would require that firms doing business in the state (with some exceptions) make climate disclosures similar to those under the expected SEC regulation and in some important ways would go further. [3] Several leading companies including IKEA Supply, Microsoft, and Salesforce support the reform, and a number of smaller firms do as well.

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Lighter Capital

OCTOBER 24, 2023

CEOs, founders, and startup leaders from over 20 states stepped away from their busy schedules and journeyed to Austin, Texas to connect, learn, and collaborate with other like-minded leaders. Summit We covered a lot of ground this year: panel sessions, roundtable discussions, one-on-one conversations, and more.

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Reynolds Holding

JUNE 27, 2023

14L (“SLB 14L”), [8] issued in November 2021, reversed the staff’s views on paragraphs (i)(5) [9] and (i)(7), [10] which limit a company’s ability to exclude proposals if there are significant social policy issues. [11] While shareholder proposals that limit management entrenchment can add value to a company, [27] others may not.

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Reynolds Holding

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Companies have increasingly leveraged artificial intelligence (“AI”) to facilitate decisions in the extension of credit and financial lending as well as hiring decisions. As federal and state authorities take stock of the use of AI, the benefits of “responsibly audited AI” has become a focal point and should be on companies’ radars.

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 10, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a rule requiring public companies to make certain climate-related disclosures as part of their securities filings. [1] 2] The Business Roundtable and the U.S. Others have pushed back, suggesting that such disclosures are a costly distraction from companies’ primary business.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 25, 2023

Companies and investors access the U.S. New financial technologies continue to change the face of finance for investors and businesses. All financial activities should be subject to consistent and efficient regulation and enforcement, regardless of the entity, the technology, or the business model. capital markets.

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Farrel Fritz

APRIL 18, 2022

No one should be under the illusion that the fact pattern presented in Straka presents a singular anomaly in the world of closely held companies. This article discusses an underexplored and underutilized potential alternative in seeking a remedy for discrimination: oppression (or “freeze out”) doctrine in the closely held business.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Which crypto-asset activities are permissible for banking organizations as an incident of the business of banking, closely related to banking, financial in nature, incidental to a financial activity or complementary to a financial activity. Hsu, Identifying Crypto Risks (Oct. 11, 2022), available here. Fintech Week (Oct. 10 Id. ,

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