Sentences with phrase «with board governance»

The Atlanta education lawyers specialize in K - 12 school finance and charter school law, as well as providing assistance with board governance, bylaws, and business - related issues at the local, state, and federal level.

The Harrisonburg education lawyers provide assistance with board governance, bylaws, premises liability issues, contracts with vendors and other partners, and policy development for employment, student health, and disability accommodation.

Not exact matches

Specifically, I looked at Canada's governance guidelines and board assessment criteria and compared them with international financial regulatory practices and recent developments.

Northern Star Resources has announced a major board restructure that includes the recruitment of two new directors and, in an unusual move that is at odds with corporate governance guidelines, the promotion of managing director Bill Beament to executive chairman.

«We do believe the current governance structure, with Jamie Dimon serving as both chairman and CEO, and an independent minded board, has served the shareholders well and is right for the company at this time,» said Lee Raymond, JPMorgan Chase's presiding director and the former CEO of Exxon Mobil.

In this case, you are asking your board to help you with issues like financial oversight and governance.

Contrast that with private equity governance, where directors are picked solely based on strategic requirements, where value creation is an obsession, and where the board is knowledgeable and demanding.

Be careful about overvaluing your startup with faulty assumptions; it will only make your life more difficult - particularly if your investors have governance rights, such as positions on the company's board.

Attached to the letter was a list of practices they called «common sense corporate governance principles» that amounted to a basic outline of a code many U.S. public companies today already either agree with or live by, or both, including issues of who sits on the board, the kinds of topics the board should discuss, and the adoption of proxy access.

I convened a meeting with the board chair and governance committee chair.

From January 2008 to July 2013, he was the Chief Risk Officer and worked with the Board's Risk Management and Audit committees to enable the Board's overview of risk management and governance.

Aspiration evaluates mutual fund companies across three categories — social, environmental, and governance programs — and will choose to work with them only if they have committed to more employee training to reduce safety violations on site, reducing their carbon emissions, or increasing gender diversity at the board level.

And it could tarnish Cook with the same brush that painted former HP (HPQ) Chair Ray Lane when he took control of board nominations, contrary to that board's governance charter.

To align our named executive officers» interests with those of our stockholders, the Board of Directors has instituted minimum stock ownership requirements under our Corporate Governance Guidelines.

He is a partner of ValueAct Capital, a governance - oriented investment fund that invests in a concentrated portfolio of public companies and works actively with executives and boards of directors on issues of strategy, capital structure, mergers and acquisitions, and talent management.

Mr. Shea is well qualified to serve as a director due to his experience in public and private company governance and private equity, including his service on numerous corporate boards and on audit and compensation committees, including his experience with Hennessy I and Hennessy II.

In addition, his current service on other public company boards of directors provides us with important perspectives on corporate governance matters.

Our Board has determined, upon the recommendation of our Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and in accordance with our Director Independence Policy, that all eight of our non-executive director nominees (Mr. Bryan, Mr. Dahlbäck, Mr. Friedman, Mr. George, Mr. Johnson, Ms. Juliber, Mr. Mittal and Mr. Schiro) and Mr. Scott are «independent» within the meaning of NYSE rules and our Director Independence Policy.

To align the interests at the highest level of our management with those of our stockholders, the Board has instituted the following requirements relating to stock ownership under our Corporate Governance Guidelines.

Our Board, upon the recommendation of our Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, has a stock ownership policy that requires each independent director to beneficially own at least 5,000 shares of Common Stock or vested RSUs within two years of becoming a director; all of our independent directors are in compliance with this policy.

Truly strategic boards will think like activists, put in place good governance practices, stay connected to messaging from Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass, Lewis & Co. and communicate with shareholders all year long.

Corporate Governance of Political Expenditures: 2011 Benchmark Report on S&P 500 Companiesfinds that corporate accountability and disclosure of political expenditures is on the upswing, with the boards of 31 % of S&P 500 companies now explicitly overseeing such spending, compared to 23 % in 2010.

Governance expert Richard Leblanc, who teaches law, governance, and ethics at York University, echoes this and says that while people like Curran come with the appropriate transactional experience a board would be interested in, many in - house lawyeGovernance expert Richard Leblanc, who teaches law, governance, and ethics at York University, echoes this and says that while people like Curran come with the appropriate transactional experience a board would be interested in, many in - house lawyegovernance, and ethics at York University, echoes this and says that while people like Curran come with the appropriate transactional experience a board would be interested in, many in - house lawyers do not.

«Today, after welcoming its new directors Ursula Burns and John Thain, the Board voted unanimously to move forward with the proposed investment by SoftBank and with governance changes that would strengthen its independence and ensure equality among all shareholders,» the board said in a statement to TechCrBoard voted unanimously to move forward with the proposed investment by SoftBank and with governance changes that would strengthen its independence and ensure equality among all shareholders,» the board said in a statement to TechCrboard said in a statement to TechCrunch.

«I think the CSA will start with a soft - glove approach and evolve to more iron - hand in a few years,» says Paul Gryglewicz, managing partner of Global Governance Advisors, a Toronto firm that advises company boards and senior managers on corporate government and executive pay issues.

His many years of experience helping companies shape and implement strategy provide Zillow Group's board of directors with unique perspectives on matters such as risk management, corporate governance, talent selection and leadership development.

Our company's existing governance policies and practices provide shareholders with access to the Board and members of senior management and offer ample opportunity for shareholders to express their views to management.

The Company's corporate governance structure, with its strong emphasis on Board independence, makes an absolute independent chairman requirement unnecessary.

The Corporate Governance provides counsel to the Board of Directors with respect to the organization, function and composition of the Board of Directors and committees of the Board of Directors, and oversees the evaluation of the Board of Directors and management of the Company.

Dalton et al. (1998)(reviewing 31 studies of board leadership structure and finding «little evidence of systematic governance structure / financial performance relationships») and Rhoades et al. (2001)(meta - analysis of 22 independent samples across 5,271 companies indicates that independent leadership structure has a significant impact on performance, but this impact varies with context).

These Corporate Governance Guidelines (these «Guidelines») have been adopted by the Board of Directors (the «Board») of Franklin Resources, Inc. (the «Company» or «Corporation») in connection with its oversight of the Company's management and business affairs.

Committee members should be appointed annually by the Board upon recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee with consideration of the desires of individual directors.

In connection with this offering, the Company will enter into the Stockholders Agreement with the Voting Group pursuant to which the Voting Group will have specified board representation rights, governance rights and other rights.

The Corporate Board is the nation's leading corporate governance magazine, providing corporate directors and senior executive officers with information vital to the efficiency and success of their corporate governance actions.

Frequently called upon to provide her expertise to the financial, national and international press, Ms. Bloxham has appeared on the many shows of CNBC including appearances with Maria Baroilomo and Larry Kudlow, on Fox Business and Bloomberg TV, on National and German Public Radio, MSNBC, Business Week, USA Today, Les Echos, American Banker, New York's Newsday, the San Francisco Chronicle, Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Times, Board Alert, Compliance Week and the Wall Street Journal, among many others, discussing the subjects of corporate governance, compensation, performance and value.

We believe this structure of a separate Executive Chairman of our board of directors and Chief Executive Officer, combined with a Lead Independent Director, reinforces the independence of our board of directors as a whole and results in an effective balancing of responsibilities, experience and independent perspective that meets the current corporate governance needs and oversight responsibilities of our board of directors.

The Board will annually designate a Board member as the Company's Financial Expert upon the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee with consideration of the desires of individual directors.

Under these rules, a company of which more than 50 % of the voting power is held by an individual, a group or another company is a «controlled company» and may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance requirements of the, including (1) the requirement that a majority of the board of directors consist of independent directors, (2) the requirement that we have a nominating and corporate governance committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee's purpose and responsibilities and (3) the requirement that we have a compensation committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee's purpose and responsibilities.

corporate governance structure, with its strong emphasis on Board independence, makes an absolute independent chairman requirement unnecessary.

Lastly, there are entrepreneurs with soon - to - be-insolvent firms that hold controlling preferred equity positions and Board seats, leaving a potentially deadly vacancy in governance and voting control.

«We will explain how shareholder proposals on environmental, social, and corporate governance matters often raise issues with a direct impact on long - term shareholder value (e.g., effective management of climate change risk or encouraging stronger board oversight and independence).

Greenlight discussed its plan privately with GM for a number of months but went public after the board dismissed the plan citing a number of concerns, including valuation uncertainty, the potential to jeopardize GM's investment grade credit rating, a lack of established market demand and governance conflicts associated with a dual - class structure.

The company has also proposed several charter amendments as part of its efforts to adopt corporate governance best practices, including board declassification, providing for the removal of directors with or without cause, a reduced supermajority requirement to amend bylaws regarding special meeting rights and the elimination of supermajority requirements for certain provisions of the bylaws.

Most notably, he is requesting that the company: (i) immediately cancel its proxy access policy; (ii) immediately implement a proxy access bylaw; (iii) that the chair of the board immediately resign; (iv) that there be a complete change of directors in the governance committee over the next year; and (v) that any director or officer refusing to act in accordance with the 2018 shareholder proposal immediately submit their resignation.

Kim also serves as a board member with the following: the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, the Community Business Diversity Council, the Women's College Hospital Investment Committee, and the United Corporation (a listed closed - end fund).

The balance of UK governance shifted just a tiny bit on Wednesday, with news that the board of FTSE 250 retailer Sports Direct has appointed its first workers» representative following a ballot of 23,000 employees.

Expecting a negative impact on corporate governance when TSX Index board members are burdened for time and attention, we unexpectedly dis - covered that corporations with busy directors outperform their peers on a variety of governance metrics.

The Clarkson Centre for Board Effectiveness collaborated with the INSEAD Corporate Governance Initiative to compare corporate governance in Canada aGovernance Initiative to compare corporate governance in Canada agovernance in Canada and the EU.

Shareholder resolutions have seen rising support on key issues ranging from governance practices to climate change to pay equity, and the recent expansion of proxy access provides long - term investors with an opportunity to shape the board itself.

We're aware of two studies of nonprofit board diversity that found that diverse boards are associated with better fundraising and social performance, as well as with the use of inclusive governance practices that allow the board to incorporate community perspectives into their strategic decision making.