Insights: The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor articles from June 2006

Insights: The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor archives from June 2006

The AIM market: special considerations for US companies.(Alternative Investment Market)
June 1, 2006... The London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market, or AIM, has recently surfaced as an alternative means for US emerging growth companies to access public capital markets--with an international flavor. An overseas "placing" and...

Majority voting: where are we now?
June 1, 2006... Over the past few years, the plurality voting standard for directors has been under attack by shareholder advocacy groups who are now actively promoting a "majority vote" standard for the election of directors. Given the significant...

Does confession yield absolution in corporate affairs?(corporate disclosure policies and risk management)
June 1, 2006... This article addresses the question, "whether 'tis better to have disclosed and lost than never to have disclosed at all?" (with apologies to Alfred Lord Tennyson). In those circumstances when the decision whether to disclose negative...

Application of section 1 short-swing trading rules to variable share prepaid forward contracts.
June 1, 2006... On March 28, 2006, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York held, in granting a motion for summary judgment by a Section 16 insider, that the settlement of a physically settled variable share prepaid forward contract did...

New PCAOB rules for audit committees to consider.(Public Company Accounting Oversight Board)
June 1, 2006... Adding to the seemingly endless wave of regulatory initiatives that audit committees must navigate, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently approved new auditor independence and ethics rules proposed by the Public Company...