J&J Puts Off Fight Over Mandatory Arbitration. . . For Now
Like winter in Westeros, the fight over mandatory arbitration of shareholder disputes is coming. We don’t know when. We don’t know where. But than...
Google’s Latest ESG Crisis: Diversity
The push by institutional investors, employees and watchdog groups for companies to take greater social responsibility is overtaking Google once again...
Public Companies Appear Fed Up With Proxy Advisors
The Nasdaq enlisted the help of more than 300 companies in pressing the Securities and Exchange Commission for reforms in the proxy system. The propos...
Shareholder Claims PG&E Declared Bankruptcy Too Quickly
As deadly wildfires wreaked havoc on the lives of thousands of Californians last year, the state’s largest utility found itself thrown into its own ...
Shareholder Proposals: The New Battleground in Managing Cyber-Risk?
“Today, the importance of data management and technology to business is analogous to the importance of electricity and other forms of power in the p...
Insider Trading, IPOs and More Go Unpoliced in Government Shutdown
As the longest federal government shutdown in history drags on, President Trump is testing out a new slogan to drum up support for his border wall: "B...