Podcast: Managing Trade Secrets and Restrictive Covenants in Health Care M&A Deals - Diagnosing Health Care
In 2022, customers, stakeholders, investors, business leaders and politicians were focused on Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) issues and initiatives. In 2023, companies will need to continue navigating the ESG...more
Driven by societal change and climate urgency, and the clamor for equity and transparency, regulators have introduced new Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) disclosure regulations that are designed to provide...more
Learning Objectives - Psychological safety appears to be trending in popularity in the corporate world in recent years, particularly in light of the so-called “Great Resignation” in the United States. This trend also...more
Today, Shearman & Sterling released its 19th annual Corporate Governance & Executive Compensation Survey, which finds that the boards of directors of the largest 100 U.S. companies have maintained their strong focus on...more
[co-authors: Timothy Cotter and Kathryn Hastings, SullivanCotter; David Jarrard, Jarrard Inc.; Ken Kaufman and Andrew Majka, KaufmanHall; Zachary Morfin, PhD., and David Nygren, PhD., Nygren Consulting; Scott Steffens, Grant...more
Late last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to modernize the description of business, legal proceedings, and risk factor disclosures that registrants are required to make according to...more
Who should ‘own’ ESG? It is an important question - one we have received from our customers and readers, and one that is currently being discussed by some leading voices on sustainability, governance risk & compliance,...more
A new SEC rule requires, to the extent material to a company’s business as a whole, expanded human capital disclosures, but its disclosure requirements are very general and give companies the ability to “tell their own story”...more
These are unprecedented times, and companies are facing important issues as they navigate the current economic, political, and social climate. The COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement have put the spotlight on...more
Consultant Russell Reynolds Associates opens this report on 2020 corporate governance trends by observing that, “[f]or the first time, in 2020, we see the focus on the ‘E’ and the ‘S’ of environment, social and governance...more