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[Editor’s note: the following excerpt appears in the Directors & Boards Fourth Quarter 2015 issue].
1. Assure board candidates understand, believe, in and support the CEO’s vision and corporate culture. Alignment is as essential in the boardroom as it is on the shop floor.
Fairness opinions are a long-established fixture of the public M&A deal process. Smith v. Van Gorkum, the landmark case in Delaware corporate law that sparked the proliferation of fairness opinions, requires that a board of directors receive “adequate information regarding the intrinsic value of the [c]ompany” in a change of control transaction.
The Philadelphia Inquirer recently published the article, “Why the number of top female execs is so dismal,” and Directors & Boards editor and associate publisher Jim Kristie was quoted on the imbalance between men and women on boards.
The fourth annual Private Company Governance Summit will be held May 11-13, 2016 at the Westin City Center in Washington, D.C. The conference website will open soon.
WCD’s 2015 Americas Institute at the Coca-Cola Headquarters will be a gathering of more than 125 women directors from all over the Americas and around the world.
Former Deputy Secretary of Defense, Patrick M. Shanahan joins Leidos board of directors
Leidos, a defense, aviation, information technology and biomedical research company, headquartered in Reston, Va., appointed Patrick M. Shanahan to its Board. He served as the 33rd United States Deputy Secretary of Defense from 2017 to…
