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Issuers Face Questions About WFH Policies

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The global pandemic has required a huge swath of the population to “work from home” (or WFH, as the kids say). The question is whether like LOL before it, this three-letter abbreviation has simply captured the zeitgeist of the moment, or wh...

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Intelligize Report: Virtual Annual Shareholder Meetings Are the New Reality

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The coronavirus has forced many public companies to go virtual. And, no, we aren’t talking about the switch to remote work. We’re talking about the transition to virtual annual shareholder meetings, which, while prompted by the pandemic, co...

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Back-to-Work Protections Go High-Tech

Employee caught on surveillance camera.

Pepper Construction monitors its building sites with software that knows when groups of workers have gathered. Samarth Diamond plans to use AI-powered surveillance to spot when workers at its 4,000-employee polishing factory are not wearing...

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Five Lessons from Early Comment Letters on COVID-19

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It’s still early, but we’re starting to learn more about how the SEC is policing disclosures around the pandemic. Like the disease itself, SEC comment letters take time to surface, and those we are seeing now are from the early days of the...

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A pile of tablets and pills: medication and corporate governance

Issuers Find a Pandemic Remedy: the Poison Pill

A pile of tablets and pills: medication and corporate governance

As citizens of the world await a COVID-19 vaccine, public companies are turning to their medicine cabinets for another, older remedy. Those companies are worried that in our pandemic-spooked markets, opportunists will recognize that their s...

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