Today’s webinar presented by the National Association of Corporate Directors (jointly by National and the New England chapter) and moderated by Boston-area director Ellen Zane (former CEO of Tufts Medical Center) explored the coming face of US healthcare delivery post-COVID. … Continue reading
Category Archives: The Law
On December 1, NASDAQ asked the SEC to approve disclosure standards of Board diversity for listed companies. The proposals are not harsh and rest on the concept of disclosure and not requirements; interestingly, NASDAQ had attempted to have the SEC … Continue reading
This week, the SEC’s Director of Corporate Finance spoke to a professional meeting dealing with corporate governance and, at the end of some rambling remarks of self-praise for the Commission, fired a couple of warning shots across the bow of … Continue reading
In early October, I posted that the SEC had proposed break-through action to create guidance under which finders in securities financings could proceed safely, under Federal law, without registering as broker-dealers. A proposal decades in the making, the matter was … 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
First time in the seven or so years of blogging I have posted on the same matter twice in one day but SEC commissioners have commented (expectedly) on the proposals and the Commission itself has issued a detailed press release. … Continue reading
Today the SEC is holding a hearing prior to the release of a proposed exemption permitting financial finders to raise money for small businesses without violating the Federal law which classifies such finders as unregistered broker dealers. Offer would be … Continue reading
How does a company maintain protection of trade secrets when its workforce is remote? It is hard enough when you are in the office; then, you can police the flow of paper, lock things in cabinets with sign-outs, keep all … Continue reading
Has COVID killed mid-market private company M&A? Well, about 60% of it. And it has changed the other 40% in certain ways. As to the future? See below for Q-3 report and expected trends, per GF Data: Deal volume was … Continue reading
First, in August the SEC widened the definition of “accredited investor” to permit a broader range of investors to fall under the Regulation D exemption which permits companies to issue shares without registering them with the SEC. While the changes … Continue reading