Podcast: Managing Trade Secrets and Restrictive Covenants in Health Care M&A Deals - Diagnosing Health Care
Following the death of George Floyd and mass protests against racial inequity in 2020 culminating years of slowly building stakeholder pressure on various aspects of diversity, many companies expressed their commitment to...more
Recently published research suggests that transparency in information disclosures from organizations influence efficiency, effectiveness, and trust. Given this knowledge, the increasing trend of public human capital...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) has adopted amendments and updated disclosure requirements that are to be included in a reporting company’s annual report on Form 10-K or 20-F. The SEC has also proposed...more
COVID-19 has not only accelerated dramatic shifts within the healthcare industry, but it has also become a catalyst for change in workforce strategies. In this special report, McDermott Partner Michael Peregrine offers...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
Learn the “how to” of leveraging metrics and analytics! On November 15 – 16, at the virtual ESG Forum on Human Capital Analytics & SEC Disclosures, key stakeholders will gather to discuss metrics, developing a “material”...more
On June 11, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) released its Spring 2021 Rule List. Among the proposed rulemaking topics are various environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) disclosures. Although...more
Global employers continue to face an evolving myriad of complex laws impacting how they manage their human capital. The increased regulatory focus on human capital (including diversity and inclusion) is prompting...more
Institutional investors and other stakeholders are seeking better information from public companies on workforce diversity. Company executives and boards are discussing how and what to disclose, and many observers believe the...more
It has been more than 30 years since the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has significantly revised any disclosure requirements relating to employees. But in August 2020, after considering comment letters from...more
On August 26, 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced, as part of its ongoing initiative to modernize Regulation S-K disclosure, amendments that add human capital resources as a separate disclosure topic,...more
Many boards have devoted additional time to human resources in recent years as investors and other stakeholders have demanded greater board involvement with “human capital management” (“HCM”). HCM is a broad concept that...more