Much of 2020 saw a decline in shareholder activist campaign levels, presumably as activists stood back while the world dealt with and responded to a global pandemic.But we suspected that ...
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and our government’s responses to the pandemic (such as shelter-in-place orders and other mobility restrictions), have dramatically changed the natu...
In addition to the disruption caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, there have been a number of other significant developments over the past few years and in recent months that m...
Recognizing the need to ease companies’ access to capital during the COVID-19 pandemic, Nasdaq has instituted a new rule to provide a limited temporary exception to its requirement of s...
Recent economic instability caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused many companies and their employees to suffer economic hardships that do not have a clear end in sight....
The recent market volatility caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused precipitous drops in the stock prices of many companies, reducing the value of outstanding equity awa...
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the ensuing market uncertainty, as well as recently enacted legislation, have upended the compensation and benefit programs of many companies. Thes...
As legal and governance officers continue to field urgent questions over the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve added several more items to our memo summarizing our thinking on t...
Extreme dislocation and a major sell-off in global equity markets have led to many public companies finding their stock prices at severely depressed levels, often over 50% off last twelve...
On March 18, 2020, Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”), a sweeping legislative bill to address the growing concerns surrounding the novel coronavirus...
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