What are the legal trends affecting board governance of public companies? This question was explored at the February 11th meeting of the National Association of Corporate Directors/New England. The biggest story by far: in M&A transactions exceeding $100,000,000 in value, … Continue reading
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This is the first of a series of four blogs reporting on corporate board developments. These posts are based upon remarks at the February 11th breakfast meeting of the National Association of Corporate Directors/New England. This first post relates to … Continue reading
Most of us invest. We read the business news, we read the national and international political news, we rely on research and analysts and our personal observation of trends, products and the like. It seems we are missing important data, … Continue reading
For decades, the SEC (and state securities regulators) have interpreted the broker/dealer registration requirements to cover “finders,” who were deemed to be broker/dealers (in the business of selling the securities of others) and who thus had to be registered as … Continue reading
This past week I joined seven of my partners at the annual JP Morgan Life Science conference in San Francisco. This is a frenzied gathering of life science and health care companies of all sorts, together with Private Equity firms, … Continue reading
Midst all the fines, penalties and recoveries against banks, we tend to get jaded about large settlements with governmental investigators. But the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act continues to provide us with mega-penalties for US companies which bribe government officials, and … Continue reading
When you are financing an emerging enterprise, the entrepreneur should forget about comparing valuations. Pick the investment partner with whom you have trust and share a chemistry. And, ignore the websites of the investor; they are unreliable. Furthermore, to be … Continue reading
I thought it might be interesting to provide hightpoints of a program on non-profit governance held this morning by the National Association of Corporate Directors of New England. The panel: Mary Beckman, chief of the Public Charities Division of the Mass … Continue reading
The 2012 JOBS Act rewrote the registration requirements under the Securities Exchange Act of ’34. Registration now is required for companies with record shareholders of either 2,000 persons or 500 persons who are not accredited investors. Prior to the JOBS … Continue reading
You are in-house general counsel to a public company. What are your greatest concerns? How do you feel about your “outside” lawyers? The November 7th segment of Practicing Law Institute’s annual securities law conference discussed these issues in its morning … Continue reading