Six years ago Dell Technologies financed its multi-billion dollar acquisition of EMC Technologies by issuing a special class of “V” shares. Two years later Dell, under the leadership of Michael Dell, recapped the V class and distributed to holders $14 … Continue reading
Category Archives: Anomalies of Life
I seldom post two days in a row, let alone on the same subject, but I am intrigued by Elon Musk’s 10-year comp agreement at Tesla that can net him as much as $56 Billion dollars (see yesterday’s post). In … Continue reading
Yesterday a trial in Delaware Chancery Court commenced, raising a shareholder complaint accusing directors (and in-house counsel) of breaching their duty by voting compensation to a company CEO that could equal $56 Billion over ten years. Kudos to those readers … Continue reading
Who copped Fred Simian? Is it IP theft, copyright infringement, or plain old-fashioned larceny? Most of America’s lawyers want to know the answers, even though they do not represent any party to the seemingly nefarious affair. Okay– as Sargeant Joe … Continue reading
I just walked up the hill to my house in Newton, Massachusetts, after watching the Boston Marathon participants run, walk, wheel and stagger past the foot of my street at mile 16. It was a strange sight to see so … Continue reading
The problem is: it often is both. Remarks yesterday by SEC chair Gensler called for Congress to pass legislation making clearer the regulatory powers of the SEC over certain forms of crypto-currency; to date, the SEC has regulated crypto by … Continue reading
After a wet and tumultuous July, I have gathered my wits again and have begun posting to this blog site on legal matters. However, on occasion I have written about other subjects when anomalies of life have struck me as– … Continue reading
Should NASDAQ require disclosure of diversity on boards, or require such diversity? Board diversity is mandated under California law in many instances, and same is true in several European countries. Last December, NASDAQ asked the SEC to approve a rule … Continue reading
Our law firm keeps an index of litigation involving COVID. Today it is 306 pages long. I calculate that each business day since the start of the pandemic there are filed in the United States about 128 separate lawsuits. The … Continue reading
As I sit at my computer writing this post, I have at my side a single-spaced 187 page document listing in very brief summary all identified US court cases relating to COVID 19 — 1,522 of them. This data grows … Continue reading