Nasdaq to buy Boardvantage for $200 mn
Nasdaq announced today that it will acquire board portal provider Boardvantage for $200 million in a deal expected to close in the...
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Boardroom archive
8 blows in the activist battle royale
At Skytop Strategies’ shareholder activism conference in New York last week, activists, board directors, corporate secretaries, IR...
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Taking the teeth out of ITC patent infringement bans
When regulations that have long been used to protect companies from threats like patent infringement fail to keep pace with...
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Privacy Shield and Viacom succession: reasons for caution
There are lots of moving pieces in the corporate governance arena lately to keep companies and their boards on high alert.Arguably...
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Detecting and preventing insider threats
Business leaders have for many years been focused on outside threats, but recent revelations about high-profile insiders have...
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Proactive fraud risk assessment is lacking, recent survey finds
Many companies are not well positioned to prevent corporate fraud, nor conduct investigations, creating a significant potential...
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Do tax inversions contradict firms' commitment to CSR?
Johnson Controls’ recent news of plans to merge with Tyco International puts the automotive batteries and internal systems...
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Periscopes up for potential fraud
If it wasn’t already clear how deadly serious the SEC is about increasing its enforcement actions, the $700,000 award to an...
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A new angle on crisis management
It’s an unfortunate sign of the times that a new year often brings more trepidation about an unknown future than excitement about...
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Europe's new data protection monkey wrench
US firms knew in October that doing business in Europe was going to get tougher when the European Court of Justice (ECJ)...
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