Profile: Monica Johnson, director and senior attorney at Burger King
It may sound like a country & western song, but Burger King’s director and senior attorney Monica Johnson is a self-professed...
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Regulatory & compliance archive
Leading the Canadian M&A Revival
Just as Canada’s athletes outdid themselves at the Winter Olympics, so too might the country’s M&A deal makers with a record...
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Escheatment: money for nothing
If the CFO of your company hasn’t got the word ‘escheat’ in his or her vocabulary, now is the time to flick through the dictionary...
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Global company entity management
Every firm wants to be in ‘good standing’ with all jurisdictions in which it operates. The more subsidiaries and entities a...
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Managing corporate subsidiary compliance
Today’s corporate compliance officer must contend with a myriad of complex domestic and international regulatory requirements. In...
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Managing enterprise-wide board risk
Sometimes great ideas come with big consequences. The continued business trends toward globalization, advantages of economic scale...
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Accounting rules convergence?
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), the global accounting standard-setter, has reiterated its commitment to...
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Getting the green light
Last October the SEC issued Staff Bulletin No 14E, making it much simpler for shareholders to file resolutions on climate change...
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Cleaning house
The year 2009 will be remembered primarily for the calamitous recession and the regulatory authorities’ haphazard and...
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Who reports to whom?
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer recently paid a $2.3 billion fine, one of the largest settlements in US corporate history, partly for...
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