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PCAOB, auditors and executive compensation

  • Leonard, Street and Deinard
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  • USA
  • -
  • 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

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

An exemption for foreign subsidiary formation

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • 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
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • 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
  • -
  • 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
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 25 2013

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

Delaware Supreme Court affirms preclusive effect of non-Delaware dismissals and rejects irrebuttable presumption that a derivative plaintiff who fails to conduct a Section 220 inspection is an inadequate representative

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 23 2013

In Pyott v. Louisiana Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System, No. 380, 2012, 2013 WL 1364695 (Del. Apr. 4, 2013), the Delaware Supreme Court

Derivative claims dismissed elsewhere cannot be relitigated in Delaware

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 19 2013

Last June, the Delaware Court of Chancery ruled that a shareholder derivative suit could be litigated in Delaware even after an identical claim had

A primer on Section 16 officers

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 18 2013

Your old college buddy Sam Baker has just been appointed CFO of Dixie Candles, Inc. While telling Sam about her promotion, Dixie's CEO mentioned in