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The Temp: interim CEO service and director independence

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 22 2013

"The Temp" was a 1993 thriller about a cookie company executive and a killer temp. The critics were unimpressed (Faye Dunaway won a Razzie award for

Avoiding investment scams

  • Diaz Reus
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  • USA
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  • May 21 2013

Every year, people lose millions of dollars to scams of every size and kind. Investment scams are particularly dangerous because they come in many

Are stock options and performance shares really the same?

  • McGuireWoods LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 16 2013

So argues the Wall Street Journal, in an article that appeared yesterday: Steven Kaplan, a finance professor at the University of Chicago's Booth

The Public Company Adviser - Spring 2013

  • Schiff Hardin LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 8 2013

On February 27, 2013, the Supreme Court decided two cases under the federal securities laws, one a victory for plaintiffs in class actions for damages

Another day, another forum: strategies for litigating stockholder class actions and derivative suits in multiple forums

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 8 2013

Parallel litigation in multiple forums has become a systemic and growing problem in stockholder class actions and derivative suits. Following the

PCAOB, auditors and executive compensation

  • Leonard, Street and Deinard
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  • USA
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  • May 8 2013

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, or PCAOB, has reproposed a new auditing standard, Related Parties, and certain other amendments to its

An exemption for foreign subsidiary formation

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 6 2013

The formation of a subsidiary under the laws of a foreign country may not seem to implicate the California Corporate Securities Law. Yet, an offer

What makes a director “independent”?

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 2 2013

What makes a director "independent"? That question is important, not only to investors who want to ensure that boards of directors exercise objective

Top five traps for the unwary in spin-offs

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 29 2013

A wave of corporate breakups has swept through the United States over the last few years as investors have taken notice of the fact that smaller

PCAOB issues its first cooperation Policy Statement

  • Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 25 2013

On April 24, 2013, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board issued its inaugural "Policy Statement Regarding Credit for Extraordinary