In order to successfully transition to Office 365, in-house lawyers at corporations large and small must plan ahead. This article will address the top ten things to consider when rolling out Microsoft Office 365.
When in-house counsel join a legal department, they might be tasked with building a compliance and ethics program. This article explains some basic starting points on how in-house counsel can start this project.
Public- and private-sector institutional purchasers are increasingly procuring “cloud” services. Purchasers are choosing cloud services for the anticipated improvements in efficiency, agility, scalability and cost effectiveness, while not necessarily understanding the impact on their organization’s sustainability performance. In this article, in-house counsel will learn how to identify potential sustainability impacts to migrating to cloud-based services.
Investing in, acquiring, or partnering with companies requires a due diligence investigation in which intellectual property (IP) will play a role. This article, from a primarily United States perspective, describes four levels of due diligence review, and the level of review warranted by different types of transactions. For efficiency, key questions upfront can focus the review.
Followers of the financial press will not have failed to note the prominence of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) developments in recent years, whether through regulatory proposals, statements from asset managers concerning ESG, or industry/sector changes. As such, much has been written about the movement away from a shareholder economy toward a stakeholder economy, and the need to “build back better” as part of COVID-19 economic renewal packages.
The enforcement actions provide early clues on how the SEC’s “risk-based data analytics” may flag public companies for investigation.
Regardless of whether you are new to the practice or just new to an in-house role, this article provides a general overview of the practice of United States (US) securities law from a public company in-house counsel perspective. It encourages in-house counsel to expand their knowledge of the federal securities laws and the areas that are integral to the practice – including governance and compliance.