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...
Is Third-Party Securities Regulation Having Its Day?
Last year, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink famously fired a warning shot at public company CEOs. In a 2018 letter, he declared that BlackRock—with $6 trill...
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...
Public Companies Begin Accounting for Shutdown Threat in Disclosures, Contracts
The longest shutdown of the federal government on record ended last week after 35 days. But keep that champagne on ice: in about three weeks, we might...