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SSRN Top Tens for Corporate, Corporate Governance, and Securities Law
The current SSRN top tens for corporate, corporate governance, and securities law are after the jump.
Corporate Law Comics
Our law librarian pointed me to Stu’s Views Law & Lawyer Cartoons website (www.stus.com) which contains cartoons for various corporate law cases (among other things). Here’s two examples: So what are the cases?
SSRN Top Tens for Corporate, Corporate Governance, and Securities Law
The current SSRN top tens for corporate, corporate governance, and securities law are after the jump.
Stock Options, Exec. Comp., etc.
I had lunch with a new colleague today, and we discussed both stock options and the SEC’s new Exec. Comp. rule. My colleague asked many good questions, not the least of which dealt with securities fraud. Given that I live alone, my conversation with my colleague was the first time I had tested out my ... Stock Options, Exec. Comp., etc.
My article on the hydraulic theory of disclosure regulation
My article, The Hydraulic Theory of Disclosure Regulation and Other Costs of Disclosure is available at SSRN. Although it will be published in the Alabama Law Review in January (or so), it is still in pretty rough form — the timing of various events dictated submission to law reviews before I solicited comments or finalized ... My article on the hydraulic theory of disclosure regulation
SSRN Top Tens for Corporate, Corporate Governance, and Securities Law
The current SSRN top tens for corporate, corporate governance, and securities law are after the jump.
PCAOB’s position on spring-loading
PCAOB recently issued an audit practice alert entitled Matters Related to Timing and Accounting for Option Grants. The alert mostly addresses option backdating and potential resulting improper accounting. Spring-loading is only mentioned in a footnote on page 2: In addition, academic research has suggested the possibility that some issuers may have purposely granted options immediately ... PCAOB’s position on spring-loading
Single Member Board Committees
Today’s W$J has an article describing some of the option granting practices at Brocade (see here). Among them was the creation of a one member compensation committee consisting of Brocade’s CEO, Greg Reyes. The article gives the following as the reasoning: The process of granting stock options was cumbersome because the compensation committee met only ... Single Member Board Committees
Charges filed against Brocade CEO for option backdating
Story here. The SEC will hold a Webcast press conference at 5pm E.D.T. (click here).
SSRN Top Tens for Corporate, Corporate Governance, and Securities Law
The current SSRN top tens for corporate, corporate governance, and securities law are after the jump.
ISS on Option Timing
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has posted an eight-page white paper entitled An Investor Guide to the Stock Option Timing Scandal. The paper provides a good overview of the recent option backdating and spring-loading revelations. There has been a number of posts in the blawgosphere debating the legality of backdating and spring-loading. While these practices are ... ISS on Option Timing
Seventh Grade Math, revisited
Upon the advice of my friend Kate Litvak, I took a short summer vacation to Walt Disney World. (In reality, the trip was a work excursion, to meet up with the other Professor Nowicki to work on an executive compensation paper. But the good news is that the other Professor Nowicki was then at Walt ... Seventh Grade Math, revisited
