Another in the newbie series: Unless you're in the field of corporate governance, you probably get the impression that a "corporate secretary" for a public company is an administrative assistant of some sort. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Here's a tip from the sixth edition of our popular publication The Public Company Handbook, which is an easy-to-read guide that provides practical insights regarding legal and other board management issues facing public—or soon-to-be-public—companies.

I'm putting together a handbook for newbies in our field and I'll be rolling out some excerpts in this blog over time. Here's the first installment: 

In this blog feature, our in-house readers share tips, anecdotes, and thoughts about topics that arise in their daily practice.

Recently, ISS published new voting policies (the Global Board-Aligned U.S.

Here's a tip from the sixth edition of our popular publication The Public Company Handbook, which is an easy-to-read guide that provides practical insights regarding legal and other board management issues facing public—or soon-to-be-public—companies.

The DOJ has been busy and clawbacks have been a hot topic for the Biden Administration in the wake of several high profile bank failures. The intersection of these two topics is captured in this Update that we put out recently.

Just last month, Stewart Landefeld ran a popular blog with practice pointers about directors and their personal devices.

Early uses of the universal proxy card have led to one interesting development – new Corp Fin guidance regarding broker voting instruction forms (VIFs). VIFs are the way in which shareholders who hold their shares through a bank, broker or other intermediary instruct that intermediary how to complete the company's proxy card for their shares.

Here's a tip from the sixth edition of our popular publication The Public Company Handbook, which is an easy-to-read guide that provides practical insights regarding legal and other board management issues facing public—or soon-to-be-public—companies.

Recently, I was talking to Ben Dale about what constituted best practices as it pertained to a particularly tricky topic in the securities laws. It led me to pause and think, "What are best practices anyway?"

In this blog feature, our in-house readers share tips, anecdotes, and thoughts about topics that arise in their daily practice.

The folks in our "Emerging Companies & Venture Capital Law" group have been doing an amazing job the past few days providing constant updates on all the developments related to Silicon Valley Bank via our

Last week, the DOJ unsealed an indictment against the CEO of a publicly traded healthcare company (the Executive) relating to charges of an insider trading scheme.

When a new insider is required to make Section 16 filings, that insider will need to obtain Edgar codes to allow for electronic filing with the SEC. Typically, the corporate secretary (and/or paralegal if a company has one) will assist the insider with this process, which involves initially filing a Form ID application.