Boards & Shareholders

The Man From FCPA reveals what expertise is needed on the board of directors when your company is evaluated under the factors set out in Prong Three of the FCPA Pilot Program and the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs.

It is incumbent that boards seek out and obtain sufficient information to fulfill their legal obligations and keep their company off the front page of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, or Financial Times, just to name a few, to prevent serious reputational damage. A board compliance committee is a good place to start.

The unspoken reality in the corporate world is that many whistleblowers are deemed complainers, and yet, Congress, regulators, and even the companies that verbally demean whistleblowers recognize that those with personal knowledge of wrongdoing are often best placed to report it, writes The Man From the FCPA.

A push may be coming to re-examine stock ownership guidelines with an eye toward increasing holding requirements.

Effective communication with the board is essential for a chief compliance officer. Here are 10 ways to make your time at the table as productive as possible.

Patrick Pichette, former chief finanicial officer of Google, will join Twitter’s board of directors as a new independent director, effective Dec. 1, 2017. He will also join both the audit and compensation committees of the board.

A recently released analysis by Willis Towers Watson fiinds that the total compensation for outside corporate directors is rising, but only at an average pace of 2 percent in 2016.

Caterpillar has announced the election of Kelly Ayotte, former U.S. senator representing New Hampshire, to its board of directors.

In response to pressure from investor advocates, exchanges are pushing soon-to-be public companies away from multi-class IPOs that reduce, if not eliminate, shareholder control with non-voting shares.

A look at female board members in the technology industry and their continuing push against the silicon ceiling.