California Assemblymember Chris Holden has authored a bill that would require the University of California to conduct a study of the racial and ethnic diversity of the board of directors and employees of California high technology companies. The...
I have previously written about one California legislator's plan to impose gender quotas on publicly traded companies that have their principal executive offices in the state. The bill is being heard today by the Senate Banking and Financial...
Earlier this month, California Senators Hannah-Beth Jackson and Toni G. Atkins introduced a bill, SB 826, that would require a publicly held corporation with its principal places of business in California to have a minimum number of women...
The "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" is giving compensation committees and their advisors much to consider. Readers may recall that the limitation on a public company's ability to deduct compensation of specified officers did not apply to certain qualified...
Shortly before leaving Delaware's Court of Chancery in 2015, Vice Chancellor Donald F. Parsons issued a decision that is widely known for the conclusion that Section 205 of the Delaware General Corporation Law does not authorize the Court of...
Ralph Waldo Emerson famously derided a foolish consistency, famously writing in his essay, Self-Reliance:
"With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now...
Glass Lewis, section 602(a), Supermajority vote, Bob Lamm, California Corporations Code, Corporate Governance, proxy voting guidelines, Section 902(a)
William & Mary Law Review recently published Professor Stephen Bainbridge's article, Corporate Directors in the United Kingdom. The abstract begins with the following observation:
In the United States, state corporation law uniformly provides that...
officers, Corporate Governance, Cal. Corp. Code Section 312, director, natural person, NRS 78.115, NRS 78.130, Section 18, Section 312
Recently, I happened across a summary of the "key features" of a corporation on the California Franchise Tax Board's website. Recognizing that it is always a challenge to summarize accurately complex legal matters, I do beg to differ with some of...
Nevada Corporations, Section 2105, Corporate Governance, Alter Ego, Bylaws, chapter 5, franchise tax board, Section 506
I always appreciate comments from readers of this blog. One reader responded to yesterday's post concerning ISS opposition to classified boards: "You seem to be under the impression that ISS comes up with its guidelines through academic research. ...
policy updates, Corporate Governance, alma cohen, Classified Board, cremers, declassification, Institutional Shareholder Services, ISS, lucian bebchuk, sepe
Institutional Shareholder Services (aka ISS) recently published its 2018 Americas Proxy Voting Guidelines Update. Among other changes, ISS will now recommend a vote against or withhold from the entire board of directors (except new nominees,...
Corporate Governance, proxy voting guidelines, Classified Board, declassify, Institutional Shareholder Services, ISS
Keith Paul Bishop
