Board of Directors

Bankruptcy & Restructuring

Gabriel A. Morgan | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

As a company turns in the widening gyre of financial distress, its directors and officers are often confronted with situations that require them to make difficult decisions. Should things fall apart, those decisions may give rise to claims that directors or officers breached their fiduciary...

Board of Directors

David Hennes | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Editor: Some posit that cybersecurity is a well-established issue of concern for most boards. Do you agree? Hennes: I agree that it is established but not yet well established. Boards certainly have been attuned to cybersecurity as part of general risk management, but over the last two years,...

Finance

John C. Coffee, Jr. | Columbia University School of Law

John C. Coffee, Jr. is the Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law at Columbia University and Director of its Center on Corporate Governance. This opinion piece is an elaboration on, and extension of, testimony that Professor Coffee gave on October 9, 2014, before the SEC's Investor Advisory...