The quest for more effective disclosure
In Rules and enforcement trends in compliance for 2015, an article in Corporate Secretary’s Winter issue (see page 18), a partner...
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Boardroom archive
Reputation management a bigger imperative as ratings culture grows
Employees and customers are more powerful than ever. The exponential growth of e-commerce and social sharing has given rise to...
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SEC's move puts all proposal exclusions at risk
What a difference a week makes. Since my newsletter of January 7 on worries regarding proxy access, and amid heightened public...
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FCPA due diligence for international M&A deals
M&A activity is expected to continue at a sustained, if not accelerated, pace in 2015 and 2016, according to Deloitte’s 2014 M&A...
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Mounting proxy access jitters
Corporate America – and at least one of its regulators – is running scared amid mounting challenges to entrenched boards of...
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Broader stakeholder interests triumphed in 2014
Like most of us at this time of year, I’m inclined to take stock and review the highs and lows, the shining triumphs as well as...
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Taking compliance training and reporting to the next level
On December 22,, the US Justice Department announced that French power and transportation company Alstom has agreed to pay $772...
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Boards paying more attention to composition to keep activists at bay
Increasingly corporate boards are saying it’s time for change -- not only in terms of top managers at the companies they serve...
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Preparing for the vagaries of revenue recognition
Earlier this year, Corporate Secretary published a story on the expanded internal audit function that reported how several...
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Sanofi board lost control of succession planning process
When the board of French pharmaceuticals maker Sanofi fired six-year CEO Chris Viehbacher at a special meeting on October 29 and...
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