Sidley is pleased to share the December issue of Sidley Perspectives on M&A and Corporate Governance, a bimonthly newsletter designed to keep you current on what we consider to be the most important legal developments involving M&A and corporate governance matters. Topics covered in this issue include:
Analysis
- Disclosure-Only Settlements: A Disappearing—or a Changing—Target?
- Board Priorities in the Face of Expanding Expectations
- CFIUS and Tsinghua’s Bid for Micron
Judicial Developments
- Delaware Supreme Court Affirms Rural Metro
- Approval of Merger by Fully Informed Disinterested Stockholders Invokes Business Judgment Review
- One More Step Towards Unified Business Judgment Review of Mergers
- Controlled Corporations Must Still Follow Corporate Formalities
- Ratification of Defective Acts under Delaware Corporate Law
SEC & Regulatory Developments
- SEC Issues New Guidance on Excludability of Shareholder Proposals
- SEC Provides Guidance on “Unbundling” Proposals in M&A Proxy Statements
Corporate Governance Developments
- Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Increasingly Target Dead Hand Proxy Puts in Credit Agreements
- ISS and Glass Lewis Release Updated Proxy Voting Policies for the 2016 Proxy Season
- Pressure Increasing to Compel Disclosure of Corporate Political Spending
Current and past issues of Sidley Perspectives on M&A and Corporate Governance are available on our website. View the December issue here and past issues here.
If you have any questions regarding this issue of Sidley Perspectives, please contact the Sidley lawyer with whom you usually work or Claire Holland, the editor of the newsletter, at cholland@sidley.com.
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