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 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....
One of the many changes to corporate governance in the wake of the financial crisis was to give public company shareholders a (non-binding) "say-on-pay" vote, which would allow them to periodically vote for or against a company's executives'...
This article highlights several prominent news stories with some kind of nexus to legal topics relevant to startups. News stories profiled in this article focus heavily on securities matters and corporate finance, such as the structure...
Boards of directors owe fiduciary duties of care and loyalty to common stockholders. Of course, many investors in startups take preferred stock, not common, which makes the question posed by this article especially acute in the startup...
This article highlights Colorado's response to the growing issue of internet business identity theft. The Colorado Secretary of State's website has recently released an enhancement to its website which allows businesses to protect their...