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Author: Alyson Clabaugh

A pile of tablets and pills: medication and corporate governance

Issuers Find a Pandemic Remedy: the Poison Pill

A pile of tablets and pills: medication and corporate governance

As citizens of the world await a COVID-19 vaccine, public companies are turning to their medicine cabinets for another, older remedy. Those companies are worried that in our pandemic-spooked markets, opportunists will recognize that their s...

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SEC Offers Direction on COVID-19 Disclosures

Corporate traveler on the move for the Division of Corporation Finance

The coronavirus outbreak presents something of a paradox for public companies. On the one hand, in disrupting commerce around the globe, the pandemic has presented public companies with a whole host of material risks to their businesses, wh...

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SEC Won’t Let Companies Get Intoxicated by KPIs

How pouring liquor into shot glass can be measured

Was Diageo PLC overserving its distributors? The Securities and Exchange Commission certainly seems to think so. The SEC announced charges last month against the London-based liquor company related to allegations that its North American sub...

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Are ESG Ratings Agencies Up to the Task?

Rainy view through glass window in black and white

Back in the 1980s, Diff’rent Strokes aired a “very special episode” in which the Drummond family taught viewers a lesson about air pollution. On the advice of kooky aunt Sophia, daughter Kimberly uses rainwater to wash her hair before a big...

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SEC Serves Up Guidance on Alternative Performance Metrics

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When the online consignment shop The RealReal went public last summer, its shares flew off the shelves. On the first day of trading, the stock price popped from $20 to $28.90. Investors liked what they read about the company in its S-1, whi...

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