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Relief for venture issuers and further update on CFO and CEO certifications

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • December 31 2007

Venture issuers get some early relief as Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) work towards a final proposal to incorporate certifications as to effectiveness of internal controls

Mandelson speech signals a change of approach to rules on foreign state investments into the EU

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • January 8 2008

In a speech to US officials in Washington DC on 8 November 2007, Peter Mandelson, the EU Commissioner for Trade, indicated that new transparency rules should be applied to foreign state investments into EU and US assets of strategic importance

What you need to know about the Companies Act 2006: abolition of financial assistance restriction January 2008

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 14 2008

This briefing considers the impact of the removal of the restriction on a private company giving financial assistance in connection with the acquisition or purchase of its own shares

Duties of the board of directors when a company is for sale

  • Duane Morris LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 4 2007

The obligations of a board of directors in the discharge of their fiduciary duties are especially significant when the company is for sale

Companies Act 2006: takeovers, offers to the public and miscellaneous provisions

  • Wragge & Co LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 23 2007

In this briefing, we consider some of the changes the 2006 Act will make in relation to aspects not covered in earlier briefing notes, including takeovers and offers of shares to the public by private companies, together with issues relevant to public companies with regard to membership, re-registration and striking off

Companies Act 2006: capital maintenance and reduction, financial assistance and distributions

  • Wragge & Co LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 4 2007

This briefing note should be read in conjunction with our earlier briefing, Companies Act 2006: Introduction and background

Forthcoming legislation

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • April 13 2007

In December 2006, the Supreme People’s Court issued a draft of the Several Issues Concerning the Application of the Provisions (No. 2 and No.3) (the “Draft Provisions”) for comments

Delaware Vice Chancellor Strine on 'more rational governance'

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 15 2007

"The management of public corporations should be given the space to implement sound long-term plans to make money by selling useful products and services."

Buyer beware: the fiduciary duties of a buyer’s board

  • Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2007

The fiduciary obligations of a selling corporation’s board of directors in the context of a corporate sale transaction, and the permissible scope of so-called “deal protection” measures in that context, have been the subject of frequent analysis in both case law and legal commentary

California adopts “continuous ownership rule” for shareholder derivative suits

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 15 2008

On February 14, 2008, a unanimous California Supreme Court adopted the “continuous ownership rule,” holding in Grosset v. Wenaas, No. S139285 that a plaintiff in a shareholder’s derivative suit must maintain continuous stock ownership throughout the litigation to preserve his standing to pursue the action

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