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Fifth Circuit Will Reconsider Challenges to Nasdaq Board Diversity Rule

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit agreed recently to revisit a challenge to Nasdaq's board diversity rule. As we previously reported, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit upheld the rule in October 2023....more

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UK Corporate Briefing - March 2024

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Welcome to the Corporate Briefing, where we review the latest developments in UK corporate law that you need to know about. In this month’s issue, we discuss...more

Fenwick & West LLP

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

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Board Composition: Gender Diversity and Beyond

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The Canadian Securities Administrators (“CSA”) have released their annual review of disclosure regarding women on boards and in executive officer positions at Toronto Stock Exchange-listed issuers, showing positive trends in...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Republican AGs Set Sights on Corporate DEI After Affirmative Action Decision

Last week, 13 Republican state attorneys general published a letter to the largest companies in the country, creating confusion, uncertainty and risk for businesses that have sought to adopt diversity, equity and inclusion...more

Allen Matkins

Are All Lawsuits Against "Woke" Directors "Nonstarters"?

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In a recent post, UCLA Professor Stephen Bainbridge concludes: "And the law is that suits claiming woke directors breached their fiduciary duties by their decisions about how the corporation behaves in the political arena are...more

Allen Matkins

Federal Court Rules California Board Quota Law Unconstitutional

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A little over a year ago, I wrote that California Superior Court Judge Terry Green had found that AB 979 facially violates the Equal Protection Clause of the California Constitution,  Cal. Const. Art. I, § 7.  Crest v....more

A&O Shearman

New Targets to increase Ethnic Diversity on UK Boards, etc.

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On 13 March 2023, the UK's Parker Review on Ethnic Diversity on UK Boards (the “Review”) published an update report (the "2023 Update") detailing recent progress that has been made in addressing the disparity between levels...more

Hogan Lovells

Vertragsgestaltung im Arbeitsrecht – Festlegung von Zielgrößen zum Frauenanteil und Fristen zu deren Erreichung nach dem...

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Das am 1. Mai 2015 in Kraft getretene Teilhabegesetz verpflichtet Gesellschaften, die börsennotiert sind oder der Mitbestimmung unterliegen sowie Gesellschaften, die börsennotiert und mitbestimmt sind, zur Festlegung von...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Meeting Expectations for Board Diversity

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Corporate boardroom diversity has increased significantly over the last few years, and the interest in and demand for gender and racial/ethnic diversity on boards of directors remain high. Lack of corporate board diversity...more

A&O Shearman

California Superior Court Strikes Down Director Diversity Mandate

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On May 13, 2022, Judge Maureen Duffy Lewis of the Superior Court of the State of California for Los Angeles County entered judgement in favor of three taxpayers bringing state constitutional challenges to S.B. 826, a bill for...more

WilmerHale

California Court Strikes Down Law on Board Diversity

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On Friday, May 13, a California Superior Court judge struck down Senate Bill (“SB”) 826—California’s landmark gender diversity law regarding the representation of women directors on the boards of publicly held corporations...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

California Trial Court Strikes Down Women on Boards Law

On May 13, 2022, a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court ruled in Crest v. Padilla, Case No. 19STCV27561, that California’s statute requiring California-based public companies to have one to three women on their...more

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California Law Requiring Female Directors on Public Company Boards Held Unconstitutional

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Ruling Follows Similar Decision on Underrepresented Minority Directors in April 2022 - A California court has held that California Senate Bill 826, which required that “publicly held” corporations that listed a California...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Court Rules Against California’s Mandated Board Diversity for Second Time and Strikes Down Gender Diversity Law

On May 13, 2022, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge struck down California's legislation requiring representation of women on the boards of publicly held companies with principal executive offices in California. The law,...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

California Gender Board Diversity Law Is Held Unconstitutional

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The law suffers the same fate as the California board diversity law requiring directors from “underrepresented communities.” On May 13, 2022, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis issued a ruling in Crest...more

Allen Matkins

The Verdict Is In On California's Female Director Quota Law

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As I noted yesterday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis has found California's female director quota law, SB 826, to violate the Equal Protection clause of the California Constitution (A person may not be ....more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

A Summary of Certain Proxy Advisory Firm and Institutional Investor Board Diversity Policies - 2022

Institutional investors and proxy advisory firms continue developing and refining their policies regarding board diversity. While gender diversity on public company boards has been in focus for some time now, institutional...more

Amundsen Davis LLC

The Push For Corporate Board Diversity Requires Your Attention, Regardless of Legal Challenges

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Board diversity requirements have hit the headlines again due to a recent ruling by a California Superior Court judge who struck down a 2020 California law (AB 979) that required companies headquartered in California to have...more

Allen Matkins

17 Law Professors File Amicus Brief Assailing Corporate Democracy

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Earlier this year, the trial of one of the challenges to SB 826, California's female director quota law, concluded but Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis has yet to release her decision.  Crest v. Weber,...more

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California Board Diversity Law Requiring Directors From “Underrepresented Communities” Is Held Unconstitutional

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The California gender board diversity law may suffer the same fate. On April 1, 2022, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Terry A. Green issued a summary judgment order finding that California Corporations Code §...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Court Rules Against California's Mandated Underrepresented Communities Board Diversity Law

On April 1, 2022, a Superior Court judge in Los Angeles struck down California's landmark legislation requiring representation of "underrepresented communities" on the boards of publicly held companies based in California....more

Allen Matkins

Judge Green Explains Why AB 979 Violates The Constitution

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When I reported last Friday that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Terry Green had ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in their challenge to California's board quota law, AB 979, all I had was a brief minute order from the...more

Allen Matkins

Plaintiffs Prevail In Constitutional Challenge To California Board Quota Law

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This afternoon, Judge Terry Green granted the plaintiff's summary judgment motion in a case challenging the constitutionality of AB 979.  Crest v. Padilla, LA Super. Ct. Case No. 20STCV37513...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Diversity in the Boardroom: A Litigation and Governance Update (UPDATED)

As noted in previous client alerts (including here), boardroom diversity continues to be an increasing focus of stakeholders ranging from legislators to institutional investors to retail stockholders. In recent years, their...more

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