One of the biggest struggles for companies when they start out collecting the data they need for climate and other sustainability disclosures is developing the disclosure and internal controls necessary to help ensure the accuracy of that data. Unlike financial reporting, there is a lack of well-known, well-worn practices to help with the information’s integrity.…

Recently, ISS published new voting policies (the Global Board-Aligned U.S. Voting Guidelines and Global Board-Aligned International Voting Guidelines), which broadly retain the policies in the standard ISS benchmark voting policies on corporate governance topics, but recommend votes in line with board recommendations on environmental and social matters. These new guidelines are available to ISS…

The DOJ has been busy and clawbacks have been a hot topic for the Biden Administration in the wake of several high profile bank failures. The intersection of these two topics is captured in this Update that we put out recently. Here’s the intro from that Update:

“The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on March…

Just last month, Stewart Landefeld ran a popular blog with practice pointers about directors and their personal devices. Now the DOJ has issued significant new guidance regarding the use of personal devices and the retention of corporate communications that bears reading. Learn more in our Update on this topic. Here’s an excerpt from that Update:…

Early uses of the universal proxy card have led to one interesting development – new Corp Fin guidance regarding broker voting instruction forms (VIFs). VIFs are the way in which shareholders who hold their shares through a bank, broker or other intermediary instruct that intermediary how to complete the company’s proxy card for their shares.

The folks in our “Emerging Companies & Venture Capital Law” group have been doing an amazing job the past few days providing constant updates on all the developments related to Silicon Valley Bank via our “StartupPercolator.” Here is where you can find these updates…

Last week, the DOJ unsealed an indictment against the CEO of a publicly traded healthcare company (the Executive) relating to charges of an insider trading scheme. The indictment represents the first time the DOJ has brought criminal insider trading charges stemming from an executive’s use of a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. The investigation is part…

Here’s an excerpt from this “White Collar Briefly” blog about this recent speech by DOJ Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco heralding a new era of corporate enforcement aimed at addressing U.S. national security priorities:

“In this most recent announcement, DAG Monaco set a new tone: announcing that enforcement of national security-related violations—most notably sanctions evasion…