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Corporate Counsel

When It Comes to ESG, You're Only as Strong as Your Weakest Link

Lawyers have a key role to play in spotting—and addressing—weak links in ESG while doing due diligence.
5 minute read

International Edition

Slaughters Focuses On Climate Tech For Latest Incubator Cohort

Five climate tech start ups will each receive £30,000 of legal and business services advice.
2 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

The Right of Indemnification May Be Broader Than You Think

An Atlantic County court recently held that a person who successfully brings a claim as board trustee against a condominium association can, under the association's bylaws, recover attorney fees he reasonably incurred in bringing the action.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Offit Kurman Deepens Employee Benefits, Tax Services in New York

Baltimore-based Offit Kurman recently added significantly to its New York presence when the firm joined forces with Snitow Kaminetsky Rosner & Snitow.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Prepping for Spinoffs Requires Legal Departments to Shift Into Overdrive

Spinoffs and breakups like those of General Electric, Toshiba and Johnson & Johnson require the integral involvement of legal departments every step of the way.
4 minute read

International Edition

China Concludes First-Ever Securities Class Action With a Slap-on-the-Wrist Order

In China's first-ever securities class action, Kangmei Pharmaceuticals has been ordered to pay $385 million as compensation—just enough for 50,000 investors to recoup their losses.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

'Massive Confusion': Legal Teams Vexed by Mishmash of ESG Reporting Frameworks

"The sooner we come through to one set of frameworks that companies should abide by and report on, on a global basis, the better for everyone," Parable general counsel Yasmin Zarabi said.
5 minute read

International Edition

UK Firm to Provide Up To £200K in Free Advice to ESG Startups

The move follows similar steps made by fellow UK firms as they continue to ramp up ESG efforts.
2 minute read

International Edition

Toshiba's Big Split and the Lawyers Behind the Smoking Gun That Prompted It

Several firms, both Japanese and international, are advising on Toshiba's three-way restructuring, including Nishimura & Asahi, which also was involved in the investigation of misconduct within Toshiba's highest ranks earlier this year.
4 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

SPAC Mergers Challenged for an Alleged Statutory Foot-Fault

Stockholder-plaintiffs have filed a number of complaints in the Delaware Court of Chancery challenging at least five mergers involving Delaware special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) in the last four months alleging that the SPAC's failure to solicit a "class vote" of the SPAC's Class A Common stockholders in connection with certain amendments to the SPAC's certificate of incorporation violates the requirements of Section 242(b)(2) of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the DGCL).
8 minute read

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