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This is FindLaw's collection of Business Organization articles, part of the Corporate Governance section of the Corporate Counsel Center. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.
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This article reviews how companies should have a solid business plan when seeking venture capital in the new economy. -
On the 10-year anniversary of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, an experienced in-house counsel describes roles for the board, management, and employees. -
This article discusses the new New York Stock Exchange rules regarding audit committees. -
This article summarizes the Exon-Florio Amendment and some of the concerns with foreign acquisitions of U.S. companies and access to national security information. -
This article summarizes the changes to North Carolina's business entity statutes. -
On October 14, 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed rules for comment that, if adopted, will require companies to include in their proxy materials security holder nominees for election as director. These proposed rules would establish the filing requirements under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the Exchange Act) for nominating security holders. The comment period for the proposed rules ends on December 22, 2003. -
Scott O'Connell, the leader of the Financial Services and Securities Litigation team at Nixon Peabody LLP, approached the topic of securities enforcement and litigation by using a hypothetical scenario involving "Inkblot Industries&rdquot;, a fictitious Delaware corporation doing business in California as a manufacturer of computer peripherals. Inkblot management had uncovered material revenue recognition issues; the company had reported revenue derived from certain oral side agreements. -
Jordan Eth, a Partner at Morrison Foerster, presented a discussion on securities enforcement and litigation, and focused particular attention on the top pitfalls for corporate clients in the area of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance that deals with requests for documents from the SEC. -
Bruce Mann, Partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP, discussed SEC corporation finance disclosure developments at FindLaw Corporate Counsel Center's Corporate Governance seminar at Stanford University. Mr. Mann opined that the SEC not only fulfilled its rulemaking obligations under Sarbanes-Oxley in record time, but was also responsive to the concerns of the bar in the comment process. "The basic approach of the SEC used to be: 'we aren't going to give people guidance because someone may take advantage of it, and that will disadvantage the Division of Enforcement.' Today, the attitude is quite different. The SEC recognizes the reality that there are more lawyers in each of the ten largest law firms in the U.S. than in the national office of the SEC. The SEC has to depend on the private bar for enforcement." -
Practitioners often focus on the voting trust when they create an ownership structure for a foreign client who is.