Profile: Steven Shapiro, ColeTaylor Bank general counsel and corporate secretary
'I would have loved to play centerfield for the San Francisco Giants, but you have to be able to hit,’ laughs Steven Shapiro...
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Winning seats: a study in successful activism
Shareholder activism, like most things in the business world, is cyclical. There was definitely a time when activism revolved...
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Profile: Lisa Beth Bentini, Best Buy senior corporate counsel
‘At my core, I am really a huge corporate governance and securities law geek,’ confesses Lisa Beth Lentini, senior corporate...
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Novo Mercado: companies blossoming in Brazil
When John Wilcox first heard about Brazil’s plans for Novo Mercado, a premium listing tier with voluntary corporate governance...
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Know your audience
‘The question is, is anybody reading it?’ says GE corporate and securities counsel Chris Pereira when asked how his team addressed...
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Best of the best: braving the storm
Coping with scandal, and being part of the team tasked with improving things, is never easy. But it is something at which Dannette...
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A lifetime of governance: Stephen Norman
No one ever sets out to be a corporate secretary; it’s not exactly a profession to which young men and women fresh out of college...
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An annual changing of the guard
Each June at its national conference, the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals (the Society) ushers in a...
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Paying the piper
It’s not quite a rerun of the French Revolution but, for captains of industry in Europe, the political atmosphere surrounding...
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Striking the right price
Financial difficulty and corporate strategy are on the front page of almost every major newspaper, but few issues get more...
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