Mediation and the SEC
The SEC had to do a bit of fire-fighting in late spring as a Wall Street Journal story smoked out the topic of arbitration as a...
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Boardroom archive
A modest proposal? Speak for yourself
It’s not a pretty picture. Especially not when you are looking at shareholder voting from your executive perch in Corporate...
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Minutes of Integrity
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. It’s an old adage, but often old sayings are the most accurate. This certainly appears to be...
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Failure to communicate
Investors aren’t happy, and company leaders are feeling the effects. Over the past two years one CEO after another left companies...
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Protecting the messenger
Retaliation against company employees who bring inappropriate or illegal action to light has long been a problem. With the...
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The new vote buying
What if an investor borrowed shares or engaged in an equity swap, acquired voting rights on your company’s record date, and then...
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United we stand
Earlier this spring the British consumer group Which? surprised corporate Europe by suing a sporting goods retailer on behalf of...
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Electronic media as compliance challenge
For decades, records managers toiled in relative obscurity, developing methods and processes to archive and retrieve the tons of...
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What lurks within…
As a by-product of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act the NYSE added annual board self-assessment to its new listings rules. If handled...
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O, these naughty times indeed
What’s the modern shareholder to do? As Portia said in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: O, these naughty times, Puts...
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