On April 28, 2022, Vice Chancellor Slights of the Delaware Chancery Court issued a verdict for the defense in In re Tesla Motors, Inc. Stockholder Litigation, a long-running derivative lawsuit challenging the 2016 acquisition...more
On September 30, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 979 (AB-979) into law, which will require every public company with securities listed on a major U.S. stock exchange and that has its principal...more
While COVID-19 will affect the operations of different companies in different ways, the boards of directors of every company should think critically about their oversight role in the context of this unprecedented global...more
Last September, then California Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 826 (SB-826) into law. SB-826 will require every public company that has its principal executive office in California, as listed on its Form 10-K (“Covered...more
On November 26, 2013, the NASDAQ Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) filed an amendment to its listing standards that eliminates the prohibition on the receipt of compensatory fees by compensation committee members. Nasdaq listing...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently issued proposed regulations on the “Pay Ratio” disclosure rules. Under these rules, a public company must disclose the ratio of the median of annual total compensation for all...more