Overview
When corporate discipline and stellar business performance coexist, competitiveness increases and risk decreases. Katten creates the legal context for clients to achieve both. As advisors to boards, committees, and directors of public companies and private and nonprofit entities, we offer proactive governance counsel that safeguards clients and their companies.
Practical counsel manages risk worldwide
Governance, regulatory and disclosure obligations present overlapping and vexing challenges. We bring clarity and direction to compliance programs and strengthen organizations in the process. Extensive boardroom experience informs our preventive counsel and workable solutions in audits, reviews and the design of governance practices.
Derivative litigation, shareholder activism, acquisitions, and going-private and other transactions create unique liabilities for directors and the C-suite. We manage your exposure, drawing on our work as special counsel to boards of directors and to audit, compensation, nominating and other committees. We identify, evaluate and negotiate threats in sophisticated buyout offers, mergers and acquisitions. Clients receive tailored guidance on best practices in:
- Annual reporting and disclosures
- Directors and officers insurance
- Executive compensation
- Fiduciary duties
- Due diligence in transactions
- Internal investigations
- Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank compliance
- Training and education for directors
Corporate defense in government investigations
Should clients face interest from regulators, we leverage our productive relationships with government agencies. We represent board committees in investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. Our corporate team includes former attorneys with the SEC and federal prosecutors, as well as leading authorities on SEC annual reporting rules.
Our collective insights build decisive defenses against allegations of fraud, accounting irregularities, insider trading and antitrust violations. Katten represents clients in SEC, stock exchange and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority enforcement matters, as well as in investigations and prosecutions by federal and state authorities.
Insights
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