13 July, 2020
#MeToo continues: why sexual harassment is a growing litigation risk
We all know that the federal securities laws prohibit insider trading, "pumping and dumping", Ponzi schemes and market manipulation. But public shareholders and their lawyers have been working hard to...
26 June, 2020
Top US CEO pay falls 53% as pandemic and investor pressure continues
Chief executives among the top 50 US firms have been shouldering some of the financial pain of the pandemic with large cuts to their pay. A report from governance data provider GC Analytics shows t...
9 June, 2020
US public backs shift to stakeholder capitalism amid Covid-19
Capitalism is at a crossroads in the US, with almost nine out of ten people wanting large corporates to concentrate on serving their workers, customers, communities and the environment, according to n...
26 May, 2020
Growth in protectionism ‘threatens corporate governance’
Usually when the conversation turns to protectionism it’s about its ability to stymie global trade and, as a result, damage economies. But according to academics it has another effect: it undermines...
18 May, 2020
Business Roundtable members ‘should become benefit corporations’
Academics have called on member of the Business Roundtable—whose luminaries include Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Larry Fink of BlackRock—adopt the legal status of benefit corporations to ensure their ...
1 April, 2020
Pushback on buybacks as global brands postpone plans
On Wednesday this week WPP, one of the world’s largest marketing and advertising companies, suspended a £950m buyback announced last year. A day later Adidas, a global sports brand announced postpo...
19 February, 2020
Mergers under scrutiny as competition regulator toughens stance
The focus on takeovers and their implications for competition have become a hot button issue in recent months. Indeed, investigations by competition regulators into proposed takeovers are on the rise,...
12 February, 2020
US regulator orders tech giants to release data on acquisitions
Corporate acquisitions by Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft are to come under scrutiny as US regulators look to see if a series of tech acquisitions were “anticompetitive” and whether ...
3 February, 2020
How does your board deal with sexual misconduct?
2017 is considered the inflection point of the #MeToo movement, with revelation after revelation of serial sexual misconduct and multi-million dollar hush money settlements approved by management—an...
9 January, 2020
