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

• Law360 Features Philip Khinda for Practice Leaders Q&A
• Marketplace Radio Interviews Jeff McFadden on Function of Corporate Boards
• Rich Battaglia Joins Steptoe’s International Regulation & Compliance Group
• Corporate Governance in the UK, USA and Belgium
• "Internal Investigations from a Governance, Regulatory, and Enforcement Perspective," ABA 2012 Spring Meeting
• Jeff Weiner to Lead Due Diligence Session in UCLA Anderson School of Management Mergers & Acquisitions Executive Education Program
• Nonprofits and Sarbanes-Oxley: A Phoenix Seminar

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Publications

• The Longer Arm of the Law in New York
  October 28, 2011, Securities Docket
• 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

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