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OVERVIEW: POISON PILL DOCTRINE IN SEARCH OF A PHILOSOPHY
When the Bulldog Sauce case landedat the doorstep of the Japanese
Supreme Court in July 2007, one suspects that the Court greeted it with all the enthusiasm of a homeowner who opens the front door to collect the morning paper, only to findwaiting a basket full oforphaned kittens.
A senior financial economist at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has published a paper entitled U.S. Domestic and International Financial Reform Policy: Are G20 Commitments and the Dodd-Frank Act in Sync?. The paper provides a useful overview of the relationship of these two important financial regulatory reform initiatives, focusing in particular on policies to address risks to the financial system posed by systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs).
ISS has issued its preliminary US post-season report, which is full of useful statistics about the 2011 proxy season for the data hound. Broc notes some of the key highlights in TheCorporateCounsel.net blog.
The DC Circuit's vacating of the SEC's proxy access rule has wider applications for the possible challenge of regulations under the Dodd Frank Act on the grounds that they fail to analyze the economic impact. Even though we all know that the DC circuit is especially hard on the SEC, other agencies could also find […]
We have uploaded this useful document to the data libary, in the Foreign folder under Shearman & Sterling.
For some time it has seemed to me that our thinking about corporate governance has become blindered by the existingframework and playerswe have created, which have becomeself-sustaining and assumed to be immutablenomatter howimperfectthey are.This is the first of a series of ideas and suggestions that I hope will provoke productive discussion unhindered by such assumptions.
With this new law, multinationals have even more things to worry about with respect to avoiding actions that could be interpreted as corruption.
China has joined a growing number of countries that are implementing new criminal laws to prohibit payment of bribes to foreign officials. In doing so, China is seeking to encourage good behavior among the growing number of Chinese companies doing business overseas.
BDTI will be holding a seminar(panel discussion) onthe most importanttopics regarding amendment of the CompanyLaw,whichhas been underdiscussion by the MOJLegal System Advisory Committee for more than a year. Two members of thekey Committee will be on the panel, as well as one of Japan's most respected practicing lawyers, and a well-known fund manager andCEO/CIOspecializing in Japanese equities investment.
For those who may not know about them, these Youtube videos by th famous Bob Monks really get at some key pointsat the leading edge of (needed) corporate governance reformin his wonderful clear way:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ragmonks
Also, Bob's blog is located at http://www.ragm.com/.
Karl Moore has written this useful piece:
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