Last Thursday, SEC Chair Mary Jo White told a crowd of white collar lawyers and judges in Washington, D.C., that the Commission is prepared to try more cases in the wake of its recent policy change requiring certain respondents to admit wrongdoing as...

The Government of Quebec has adopted new Orders in Council1 lowering the threshold for which enterprises are required to obtain an authorization from the Autorité des marchés financiers (the “AMF”) pursuant to an Act Respecting Contracting by Public...

Diageo, the Tanqueray brand owner is currently running billboard ads in the Twin Cities as part of its “Tonight We Tanqueray” ad campaign. A couple of years back when the campaign first was announced, Diageo explained it this way......

Last week, I wrote about how a shareholder who owns 60% of the voting power could find herself in a deadlock situation under cumulative voting. A former colleague on the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the California State Bar,...