Vol. 39 No. 2, January - January 2015
Index
- Delaware's leading role in business and why you should read this special report.
- Controlling-stockholder transactions: evolving standards of review.
- Curbing stockholder litigation: exclusive forum and fee-shifting provisions.
- Delaware Supreme Court justice Henry duPont Ridgely joins DLA Piper.
- Delaware's guiding principles remain true.
- DLA Piper at a glance.
- DLA Piper lawyers author U.S. Chapter of international publication on company formation.
- Financial advisor gets tagged for aiding and abetting a fiduciary breach.
- Important ruling on use of section 102(b) (7) exculpatory provisions expected in 2015.
- Managing the sales process: further clarification of what Revlon requires.
- Stockholder books and records demands: inspection rights may be broadening.
- The impact of a "fair price" on the "entire fairness" test.
- The impact of the 2013 amendment to the Delaware General Corporation Law eliminating the need for 'top up' options.
- The interplay between "ordinary course of business" and "MAE" provisions.
- Two-tiered poison pill targeted at hedge fund activists survives challenge.
- A gentleman and a gentle giant.
- A winning mix.
- The cybersecurity scare: there are actions that directors can take to keep themselves within the protection of the business judgment rule.
- Dealing with a heavy audit committee agenda: follow the 80/20 rule, understand that you can't do it all at the formal meetings, and more advice for agenda management.
- CEO reviews: helping the boss get better: boards should show a firm grasp of five key elements of successful CEO reviews.
- Conference program.
- 'Flip generation leadership: on being a young director.
- Welcome aboard to your youngster' on the board.
- Bringing aboard a younger director.
- Recruiting the younger director: 5 practices to increase your odds of success.
- Bridging technology (not generation) gaps in the boardroom.
- Gender balance on boards: five steps to achieve success.
- Women on private boards: family companies lead the way.
- The Directors & Boards Survey: 2015 proxy season and shareholder relations survey.
- How a skilled board should manage an internal investigation: as the fates of these contrasting boards illustrate, there is much to be lost in shying away from a robust, independent investigation when warranted by the circumstances.
- Frank Perdue's legacy advice.
- My game changer.
- Measuring the return on values-based leadership.
- The dangerous doctrine of elite infallibility.
- How communicators can add value to governance.
- Old equity under duress, seeking recovery.
- Board evolution: a new way to frame board succession.
- Directors roster: a quarterly record of new director appointments.
- New attention is brewing on director tenure.
- Board pay on the rise.
- HR leaders 'increasingly ready' for public company boards.
- The speed of harm runs far and wide.
- Nucor's Dan DiMicco on the U.S. getting its mojo back.
- Contributing from day one: when to talk, what to say, and how to deal with the big shots around the board table.