The SEC and Elizabeth Warren have SPACs in their crosshairs, but what will the final rules be? And what are the implications for growth companies in particular? To answer these questions and more, IPO Edge and The Palm Beach Hedge Fund Association hosted a virtual forum featuring leading market participants and capital markets advisors. The [...]
Montgomery Strategies Chairman & CEO explores the new SEC cybersecurity requirements from the communications, brand, and regulatory management perspective and more.
Washington Is Here To Help – Really By: Michael W. Robinson For the singular macro-level issue that will hover over corporate governance decision making in 2022, thanks are due to former President Ronald Reagan for his prophetic admonition that “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the Government, and I’m here [...]
The Palm Beach Hedge Fund Association and Nasdaq, Inc. hosted the first Palm Beach CorpGov Forum on Sept. 30 for an in-person event featuring investors, attorneys and other advisors who have consulted on board intelligence and the most prominent activism campaigns in recent years. Below are video highlights from the event, along with spotlight [...]
September 5, 2021 Chris Clark conducts interviews with leading corporate directors and subject matter experts for NACD Private Company Directorship, a bi-weekly e-publication about private company board leadership and governance best practices, on critical issues from ESG, crisis communications, and cyber-resiliency to succession planning and board composition. Here, he interviews Michael W. Robinson, Chair & [...]
Covid-19 has given companies a host of external communications challenges, but internal comms may be just as important—and more fraught. What do you tell employees about how the outbreak is affecting your business, your customers, and your suppliers? When should you be talking, and when should you stay quiet? We asked crisis communications professionals [...]
The First 30 Days: The New Rules of Corporate Crisis Management By: Colleen Birdnow Brown, Harry Cendrowski, and Michael W. Robinson In 2019 and beyond, a board’s reflexes need to be finely honed—and that means throwing out the standard drill for response and remediation. No where is the speed of the digital world more evident [...]
Earlier this week, a California jury awarded a couple a $2 billion verdict against Monsanto, the agrochemical and agricultural giant. The couple brought a lawsuit against the company, claiming their cancer was caused due to decades of exposure to its weed killer, Roundup. Monsanto intends to appeal the judgment. This latest mega lawsuit comes [...]
Without question, 2016 was a year full of memorable — or, infamous depending on your point of view — crises. For many of the companies and their leaders who found themselves under the uncomfortable glare of the klieg lights — the well- known names now include Chipotle, VW (a carryover from 2015), Theranos, Wells [...]
The Holmes Report kicks off our annual analysis of the year's biggest crises: 2. Mylan raises EpiPen prices It’s hard to imagine a more disturbing lead-in than the one that opened an NBC report on Mylan’s life-saving anti-allergy device EpiPen. "The cost of saving your child's life has gotten a lot more expensive." As if that [...]
