The Securities and Exchange Commission is utilizing enhanced tools to tighten its regulatory oversight, focusing fraud and corruption in particular, according to an expert panel presenting to the June 14th Boston breakfast meeting of the National Association of Corporate … Continue reading
Stephen Honig
Check out the recent article in the Harvard Business Review about what happens when your CEO lies about personal matters, has a sexual affair, makes questionable use of corporate funds, commits “objectionable” personal behavior, or offends customers or public groups. … Continue reading
There has been a lot of publicity about investments being funded out of China (in 2015, they totaled $118 billion dollars). But of equal interest is the opportunity for making acquisitions within China. Foreign investment into China in 2015 … Continue reading
Today’s business news may seem technical but it is very important from a corporate standpoint: the Delaware Chancery Court stuck its nose into Michael Dell’s management buyout of Dell stock and stuck buyers with millions of extra liability above and … Continue reading
To date, trade secret protection has fallen under State law. On May 11th, the President signed a bill establishing a parallel scheme of Federal trade secret enforcement, granting new tools for the protection of company proprietary information. Why should the … Continue reading
For several years, as noted in prior posts, Massachusetts has been toying with enactment of a law limiting permissible non-competition agreements for employees (other than those relating to the sale of a business). Yesterday the Mass House reported out of … Continue reading
The accredited investor definition is the well-known standard to permit persons of reasonable liquidity to invest in unregistered offerings of companies seeking capital; it facilitates the so-called Regulation D offerings which raise about as much investment capital as to all … Continue reading
When you open this post on Monday the 16th of May, you are doing so on the first day of truly general crowdfunding ability under Federal Law. Until now, crowdfunding either did not allow the issuance of securities, or was … Continue reading
It is company management which typically proposes, and almost always executes, an M&A transaction. What is the board of directors doing while all this is going on? A panel at the May 10th Breakfast Meeting of the National Association … Continue reading
Spent half a day at mile 16 vantage point for the Boston Marathon, which is conveniently down the street from my house. Beautiful day to set up a folding chair in the sun, start on one of yesterday’s crossword puzzles … Continue reading