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2023 Silicon Valley 150 Corporate Governance Report

The firm is pleased to present its 2023 Silicon Valley 150 Corporate Governance Report, which analyzes the governance of the Valley's largest public companies and reviews various matters regarding annual meetings held between...more

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Corporate Governance Practices and Trends in Silicon Valley and at Large Companies Nationwide

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For two decades, Fenwick has reported on corporate governance statistics and trends among the S&P 100 and Silicon Valley’s top public companies (Fenwick – Bloomberg Law Silicon Valley 150 List), with the goal of educating...more

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2023 Proxy Season Results in Silicon Valley and Large Companies Nationwide

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Broadly considered, stockholder activism has been a significant phenomenon among the largest U.S. public companies, with activists of a variety of stripes waging campaigns on a wide range of issues including in the form of...more

Foley Hoag LLP

The SVB Bankruptcy Decision and Its Lessons for D&O Insurance Programs

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Directors and Officers (D&O) policies are intended first and foremost to protect a company’s individual directors and officers from significant claims which may be asserted against those individuals in their capacities as...more

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Diversifying the Boardroom: What Silicon Valley-Based and Other Large Public Companies Disclosed in 2022

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The intense focus on board diversity from a variety of stakeholders over the last several years has spurred many companies to examine the composition of their boards and to take action to diversify their boardrooms. While the...more

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Bank Officer and Director Enforcement Exposures In the Wake of Silicon Valley Bank

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The recent and sudden failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, and the threat of other bank failures, have led to intense public focus on what caused these banks to run into trouble, who is to blame, and what...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

2022 Silicon Valley 150 Corporate Governance Report

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is pleased to present our 2022 Silicon Valley 150 Corporate Governance Report, which reviews the corporate governance practices and disclosures of the Valley’s largest public companies. ...more

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2021 Proxy Season Results in Silicon Valley and at Large Companies Nationwide

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Shareholder activism has been a significant phenomenon amongst the largest U.S. public companies, with activists of a variety of stripes waging campaigns on a wide range of issues. As such activism has continued to grow, it...more

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Gender Diversity in the Silicon Valley - A Comparison of Large Public Companies and Silicon Valley Companies - 2020 Proxy Season

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Fenwick’s gender diversity survey provides unique insight into women’s participation at the most senior levels of technology and life sciences public companies on the Fenwick – Bloomberg Law Silicon Valley 150 List (SV 150)...more

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Corporate Governance Survey - 2020 Proxy Season Results

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Corporate governance practices vary significantly among public companies. This is a reflection of many factors, including: • Differences in the stage of development of companies, including the relative importance placed on...more

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2020 Proxy Season Results in Silicon Valley and Large Companies Nationwide

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This comprehensive report covers trends in stockholder voting at annual meetings in the 2020 proxy season among the technology and life sciences companies included in the Fenwick – Bloomberg Law Silicon Valley 150 List (SV...more

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Silicon Valley 150 Risk Factor Trends Report

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is pleased to present the Silicon Valley 150 Risk Factor Trends Report, which analyzes the risk factor practices of the Valley’s largest public companies. This report covers risk factor...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

2019 Silicon Valley 150 Corporate Governance Report

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is pleased to introduce the 2019 Silicon Valley 150 Corporate Governance Report, which analyzes the governance of the Valley’s largest public companies and reviews various matters regarding...more

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2017 Proxy Season Results in Silicon Valley and Large Companies Nationwide

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This companion supplement to the Fenwick survey, “Corporate Governance Practices and Trends: A Comparison of Large Public Companies and Silicon Valley Companies,” covers trends in stockholder voting at annual meetings in the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Corporate Governance Features: for Silicon Valley and San Francisco Bay Area Public Companies

Orrick has unveiled an unprecedented new study examining the corporate governance structures of the largest public companies in the Bay Area, including tech industry leaders. The comprehensive study reviewed the 153...more

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Gender Diversity Survey - 2016 Proxy Season Results

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The Fenwick & West Gender Diversity Survey provides unique insight into women’s participation at the most senior levels of public technology and life sciences companies in the Silicon Valley 150 Index (SV 150) and the large...more

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2016 Silicon Valley Proxy Season Results

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A Comparison of Silicon Valley Public Companies and Other Large Bay Area Public Companies - This companion supplement to the Fenwick survey, Corporate Governance Practices and Trends: A Comparison of Large Public...more

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Why You Don't Need to Found Your Startup in Silicon Valley

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Silicon Valley is the capital of venture capital and the acknowledged headquarters of disruptive ideas, fierce determination and hard work. That aura of potential casts a golden glow on the zillions of Bay Area startups...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

(Silicon Valley – Season 3 Finale)

Summarizing the week Jared writes, “Lewis Carroll famously said, ‘Begin at the beginning, go on to the end, and then stop.’ But that is hard advice to follow when one’s head is spinning…” It would have been just as apt if...more

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…And The Unicorn You Rode In On (Silicon Valley – Episode 26)

Alas, poor Erlich! We knew him; ‘a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne us on his back a thousand times; and now,’ as Jared poetically recounts, “Erlich’s Bachmanity boondoggle has led to his being...more

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Laurie & Monica Out-Action Jack…and Other Fiduciary Duties (Silicon Valley – Episode 22)

Episode 22 provides a decisive and satisfying showdown between Jack’s Box plan and Richard’s consumer platform option. Richard’s not-so-secret skunkworks project is dead, and the team sets to work on the Box believing that...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

The Byzantine Complexities: Strategies for Lawyers to Join a Board of Directors

While many lawyers may be interested in joining a board of directors of a for-profit public or private company, reaching this goal can entail a degree of complexity that even the Byzantine Emperors would have envied....more

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Board Games (Silicon Valley, Episode 16)

Episode 16 culminates with a disastrous end to the Intersite bake-off, and highlights an issue that’s cropped up in several episodes: troublesome or under-performing board members. To recap, Pied Piper is competing against...more

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