Corporate Governance

We advise clients on a variety of corporate governance issues: 

• officer/director duties and liabilities
• board structure and operations
• charter and by-law provisions
• memorandum and articles of association
• legislative and stock exchange requirements  
• creation of corporate divisions and subsidiaries
• spin-offs
• shareholder proposals
• derivative and shareholder litigation
• executive employment and consultancy agreements
• severance arrangements
• executive compensation and indemnification

We counsel and assist in the preparation of director guidelines, ethics standards, and other corporate codes of conduct. We also perform internal investigations to address various board concerns. 

Select News & Events

• Cynthia Pevehouse Joins Steptoe & Johnson LLP in Washington, DC
• Corporate Governance in the UK, USA and Belgium
• London Team Acts on MBI
• Nonprofits and Sarbanes-Oxley: A Phoenix Seminar

Publications

• The Potential Employment Tax Increase for Shareholders of S Corporations
  written for publication by Association of Convenience and Petroleum Retailing (NACS) and National Systems Contractors Association (NSCA)
  June 2010
• Due Diligence in M&A Transactions: A Conceptual Framework
  June 17, 2010, Business Due Diligence Strategies, 2010 ed.
• The Rise and Rise of the NYAG
  May 2010, Securities Docket
• The Nuances of Securities Reform
  March 30, 2009, New York Law Journal

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