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Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

Governance Insights: Dual Fiduciaries – A Cautionary Tale for Nominee Directors

The latest edition of Davies’ Governance Insights is now available. In this issue, we review the Manti Holdings decision from Delaware. For boards, nominees and nominating shareholders, the decision is a reminder of the...more

Hogan Lovells

Key risk trends for Directors and Officers in 2025 and beyond

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2024 was a standout year for the Directors and Officers (“D&O”) insurance market, as the industry navigated legislative upheaval and case law developments with remarkable resilience. Despite increasing mass-shareholder...more

White & Case LLP

In Re Boeing Decision Underscores Need for Risk-Based Corporate Governance by Directors

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Following enforcement actions imposing corporate criminal or civil liability, shareholders often bring derivative actions seeking to hold directors liable for related compliance failures by alleging they breached their...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Reevaluating the Board Risk Oversight Process: Implications of Marchand and Other Recent Developments | Insights | Skadden, Arps,...

On February 26, 2020, Skadden held a webinar titled “Reevaluating the Board Risk Oversight Process: Implications of Marchand and Other Recent Developments.” The panelists were Edward Micheletti, litigation partner and...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

INSIGHT: New Corporate Board Procedures Advisable to Satisfy Duty of Oversight

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In Marchand v. Barnhill, a unanimous Delaware Supreme Court imposed substantial new procedural expectations on corporate directors to satisfy their fiduciary duty of oversight related to material risk areas and legal...more

Carlton Fields

Yellow Flags Are Not Red Flags: Delaware Court of Chancery Rejects Caremark Claim in Reiter v. Fairbank

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In October 2016, the Delaware Court of Chancery rejected a shareholder derivative lawsuit premised on an alleged lack of oversight by the directors of Capital One Financial Corp., Reiter v. Fairbank, C.A. No. 11693-CB, 2016...more

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