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Australian Top Business Group Calls for End to Shareholder Class Actions

The Australian Institute of Company Directors is asking the government to follow the lead of Hong Kong, where continuous disclosure laws are not linked to a class action regime.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

COVID-19 Securities Class Action Risks: Present and Future

In their Corporate and Securities Litigation, Margaret A. Dale and Mark D. Harris discuss the most recent putative class action lawsuits related to COVID-19, and concludes by evaluating implications for future lawsuits.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

COVID-19 Fallout Likely Won't Slow Corporate Legal Software Updates

Rolling out software patches in the age of remote working can be challenging for legal departments, but as collaboration platforms become more central to day-to-day operations, staying on top of updates may become critical.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Tech Spend Rising in Corporate Legal—But Understanding Is Still Low

The 2020 Wolters Kluwer Future Ready Lawyer Survey indicates that corporate legal departments are looking to gain more independence from outside counsel, but selling technology internally is still an uphill battle thanks to continuing organizational issues.
4 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Chancery Upholds Shareholder Representative Structure and Refuses to Treat Sellers as Real Parties in Interest

In Fortis Advisors v. Allergan W.C. Holding, the counterparty sought to bypass the agreed-upon shareholder representative by moving to treat the selling stockholders as parties for purposes of discovery and trial.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Economic Tools for Improving Negotiation Outcomes

For deal lawyers, no matter the stripe, negotiations can sometimes feel rote. Clients may have a list of "must-haves," stock provisions approved by committee, or regulatory imperatives, on the one hand, and almost everyone knows—depending upon the type of deal—the flashpoints in a given transaction, on the
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Economic Woes Alone Won't Help Corporate Legal Sell Innovation

Corporate legal departments have often struggled to create a compelling investment story around innovation, but constructing a more urgent narrative could help them gain employee buy-in.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

How Patents Can Solve Your Company's Liquidity Problems

For some firms—especially startups with innovative technology—financial salvation could lie in a group of very valuable company assets that don't even show up on the balance sheet: patents.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

CEOs Want General Counsel 'More Strategically Involved' in Leadership Roles

Seventy percent of chief executives surveyed said that an ideal general counsel should serve as both a strategic business partner at the company and as an important member of its leadership team, but only 55% of those CEOs said that their current GC fills those roles.
4 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Chancery Holds Buyout Provision in LLC Agreement to Be a 'Call Option' and Irrevocable Following Exercise

The Court of Chancery's opinion offers valuable guidance to Delaware limited liability companies when drafting the buyout provision of their operating agreements, as well as when Delaware limited liability companies are considering exercising a buyout right in accordance with the terms of their operating agreements.
6 minute read

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