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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Boardroom archive
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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Investor state
Delaware, California, New York. These are the states that generally come to mind when thinking about influential corporation law...
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An environment of risk
In 2004, more than two years before Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ hit movie theatres nationwide, Cinergy, now part of Duke...
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Leading the Society of ‘doers’
The annual Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals national conference marks a changing of the guard when...
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Following the leader
Analysts and investors often review insider transactions in an effort to gain insight into management’s bullish or bearish...
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All change
Now’s a busy time for corporate secretaries in the UK, or company secretaries as they’re known across the pond. For the first time...
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Tokyo calling
Just as scandals at Enron and Worldcom gave rise to the governance reforms of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, fraud at Japanese companies...
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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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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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