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Revised NYSE Corporate Governance Listing Standards effective as of January...
by F. Mark Reuter and Mark A. Weiss, for Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL, January 7, 2010. As approved by the SEC, the revised rules (more fully described in this SEC Release) basically conform the...
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TXI Announces Corporate Governance Changes
by CNN Money, January 13, 2010. DALLAS, Jan. 13, 2010 (Globe Newswire) — The Board of Directors of Texas Industries, Inc. (NYSE:TXI) has voted unanimously to take action to effect the following changes...
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Looking Ahead at 2010 By Looking Back at 2009
by Francis H. Byrd, for The Harvard Law School Forum at Harvard Law School, January 17, 2010. As 2009 comes to a close and we prepare for the 2010 proxy season, it is time to contemplate the changes...
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The SEC and the Consequences of Divisiveness
by J. Robert Brown, for The Race to the Bottom, February 1, 2010. Anyone who studies the history of the SEC knows that most decisions are made by consensus. Those days are over. The difficulty in...
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Implications of Beneficial Ownership Distinctions for Shareowner...
by Alan L. Beller and Janet L. Fisher, for The Harvard Law School Forum at Harvard Law School, March 18, 2010. A shareowner’s right to vote on matters as allowed under state or federal law, stock...
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Director Fees and Director Independence
by J. Robert Brown, for The Race to the Bottom, March 31, 2010. We have often noted that neither Delaware nor the NYSE consider fees in determining director independence. This leads to absurd results....
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Corporate Governance: Not Yet Priced In
by Kimberly Gladman, for The Corporate Library Blog, April 22, 2010 Some in the responsible investment community have suggested that the relationship of corporate governance to equity returns is now...
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NYSE Commission Report Defines Core Principles of Corporate Governance
by Scott Hirst for The Harvard Law School Forum, October 7th, 2010. Editor’s Note: This post comes to us from David Berger, a partner in the litigation department at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &...
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Is an Independent Board a Good Thing?
by TK Kerstetter for The Board Blog, October 20th, 2010. The simple answer is YES. But if you ask me to qualify that response by choosing whether I would rather have a board full of independent...
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Is director independence so important?
by Bob Tricker and Chris Mallin, December 6th, 2010 The New York Stock Exchange Commission on Corporate Governance has reported. In autumn 2009, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) formed an independent...
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