Charles Gradante, Co-Founder, Hennessee Group LLC, who currently runs a family office, joined the 2021 Palm Beach CorpGov Forum, where he discussed regulation of “meme” stocks and retail traders along with heavy options trading. He also addressed the prevalence...

Barbara Trebbi Landry, Chapter Chair, South Florida, Women Corporate Directors (WCD) Foundation joins a fireside chat with Charlotte Kiaie, Principal, MKA Communications to discuss the importance of board diversity. Ms. Landry emphasizes the importance of “cognitive diversity” rather than focusing solely on race and...

Dan Zacchei, President, Special Situations, Sloane & Company, explains how aggressive and public bids for companies can quickly sour conversations between potential buyers and corporate boards. For instance, companies may be unhappy to see bidders go to the press without...

Washington Is Here To Help – Really By Michael W. Robinson For the singular macro-level issue that will hover over corporate governance decision making in 2022, thanks are due to former President Ronald Reagan for his prophetic admonition that “the...

  Sarah Crowe, ESG / Sustainability Channel Lead at Nasdaq, explains the challenges of “carbon accounting” and that companies face hard work when assessing climate risk. To truly measure such risk, companies need to go up the supply chain and...

Chuck Garske, Senior Managing Director at Okapi Partners, describes the rapid evolution of the SPAC market. In particular, he highlights the role of retail investors,  who became such a large presence that their votes became critical to closing transactions. CorpGov, The...

Ira Gorsky, Executive Vice President, Edelman explains how antitrust regulation has evolved from a focus on consumer harm to a “big is bad” approach. As a result, companies effectively need to engage in a PR exercise to ensure they do...

  By Alan Hatfield For the second time since Bloomberg released its inaugural Global Activism Market Review in 2019, Vinson & Elkins’ Shareholder Activism Practice has been awarded the distinction of top practice both globally and in the U.S. The commendation, based...

By John Jannarone Law firm Vinson & Elkins has been recognized as the number one shareholder activism practice in Activist Insight’s 2021 Adviser Awards, marking six straight years at the top of the league table. The 30-attorney team at V&E is...

Lawrence Elbaum, Partner and Co-Head of Shareholder Activism, Vinson & Elkins, joined the 2021 Palm Beach CorpGov Forum, where he explained the difficulty of challenging proxy advisors like Glass Lewis and ISS. In his view, the proxy advisors could lose...