When should your business think about repurchasing shares? This article helps clarify the thought process behind the answer to that question, with an explanation of the economics of share repurchasing, some points about when share repurchases...
This article surveys current news and highlights several business news stories involving executive pay from across the globe. The article looks at current trends in American executive pay in light of the stagnation of the middle class and...
A poison pill is a corporate governance device which has the practical effect of giving a corporation's board of directors the final say over any takeover attempt. Many regard poison pills as friendly to boards of directors and contrary to...
A poison pill is a corporate governance mechanism which serves to make the corporation adopting the poison pill prohibitively expensive to acquire absent the consent of that corporation's board of directors. This article reviews the facts...
This article analyzes JP Morgan's recently announced huge trading loss to illustrate how Delaware courts analyze whether directors fulfilled their duties to oversee the business and affairs of the corporation; since most corporate law rules apply to...
This article addresses the various mechanisms by which an inventor can change their patent application after it is filed with the USPTO. It reviews the appropriate uses of each way of changing a patent application and highlights the various...
This article reviews the federal rules surrounding deferred compensation paid to either employees or independent contractors. It highlights the distinction in the Tax Code between qualified and nonqualified deferred compensation plans and...
One of the legal responses in the wake of the financial crisis was to mandate that the SEC provide awards to individuals who report violations of the federal securities laws at their companies. This article examines how Dodd-Frank mandated this...
When trying to determine the form of incorporation for your business as well as how you want it to be taxed, you will ideally consider the costs and benefits of the various options. This article adds to this consideration by pointing to a...
This article highlights several prominent news stories with some kind of nexus to legal topics relevant to startups. News stories profiled in this article include evidence of continued growth in CEO pay packages, hiring trends in the U.S....