- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Jaclyn Jaeger2023-03-10T13:30:00
The fiduciary duty of oversight that historically has applied only to directors “applies equally to officers,” including chief compliance officers, the Delaware Court of Chancery explicitly held in a recent ruling.
The Jan. 26 decision by Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster in the case McDonald’s Corporation Stockholder Derivative Litigation means shareholders can proceed to trial with their consolidated derivative lawsuit against David Fairhurst, the fast food chain’s former global chief people officer.
A second shareholder derivative lawsuit filed against McDonald’s current and former board members alleging breach of oversight duty was dismissed by Laster in a separate decision issued March 1. In that decision, Laster found the directors took steps to address the toxic culture.
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2023-01-09T19:21:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
The Securities and Exchange Commission found McDonald’s violated federal securities law when it failed to fully disclose material factors regarding the firing of former Chief Executive Stephen Easterbrook in 2019.
2021-12-17T20:42:00Z By Aaron Nicodemus
McDonald’s has agreed to drop its lawsuit against disgraced former CEO Steve Easterbrook, who will return more than $105 million in equity and cash he received upon the termination of his employment in 2019.
2020-08-13T14:37:00Z By Compliance Week
A fresh podcast from the Theranos whistleblower and a new compliance association for Black practitioners get a round of applause from us this week, while a complicated case involving McDonald’s lands the company on both the “Nailed It” and “Failed It” lists.
2025-04-30T14:25:00Z By Ian Sherr
We all have terrible attention spans. Understanding how people learn can mean the difference between effective compliance training programs or an eye roll.
2025-04-30T14:03:00Z By Aly McDevitt
The Ukrainian Red Cross Society, CW’s 2025 Compliance Program of the Year award winner, built a full-fledged compliance program from scratch in twenty months during a full-scale war against Russia. “We didn’t just manage logistics; we built momentum,” says URCS’s Chief Risk Officer Dr. Mariia Polomoshnova.
2025-04-29T15:25:00Z By Ian Sherr
Too often, compliance professionals do their jobs only to receive a pink slip at the end. Panelists at Compliance Week’s 20th Anniversary National Conference in Washington, D.C. this week said compliance professionals need regular access and reporting lines to CEOs and boards of directors, and to feel free to speak ...
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