Governance

Publications

  • Insider Trading & Disclosure Update - Vol. 14
    April 2026
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    Jonathan R. Tuttle
    ,
    Benjamin R. Pedersen
    ,
    Mark D. Flinn
    ,
    Anna Moody
    ,
    Amy Pereira
    ,
    Jacquelyn Sherman
    ,
    James K. Sullivan
    ,
    Samantha Hui
  • Governance Round-Up Issue 18
    2 March 2026
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    William D. Regner
    ,
    Paul M. Rodel
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
    ,
    Joshua M. Samit
    ,
    Alexander Bracco
    ,
    Amy Pereira
  • Private Equity Report Fall 2025, Vol 25, No 3
    November 2025
    Christopher Anthony
    ,
    Vadim Avdeychik
    ,
    Megan K. Bannigan
    ,
    David H. Bernstein
    ,
    Tim Cornell
    ,
    Morgan A. Davis
    ,
    Mark P. Goodman
    ,
    Ted Hassi
    ,
    Uri Herzberg
    ,
    Eric T. Juergens
    ,
    Maura Kathleen Monaghan
    ,
    Gordon Moodie
    ,
    Sheena Paul
    ,
    Marc Ponchione
    ,
    Paul D. Rubin
    ,
    Michael Schaper
    ,
    Christopher S. Ford
    ,
    Jared I. Kagan
    ,
    Jacob W. Stahl
    ,
    Melissa Runsten
    ,
    Kate Saba
    ,
    Daniel N. Cohen
    ,
    Daniel Jaret
    ,
    Adriana Kranjac Rielly
    ,
    Kaitlyn McGill
    ,
    Amy Pereira
  • Key Governance Considerations in PIPE Transactions
    November 2025
    Christopher Anthony
    ,
    Uri Herzberg
    ,
    Eric T. Juergens
    ,
    Gordon Moodie
    ,
    Amy Pereira
  • Governance Round-Up Issue 17
    16 October 2025
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    William D. Regner
    ,
    Paul M. Rodel
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
    ,
    Joshua M. Samit
    ,
    Alexander Bracco
    ,
    Amy Pereira
  • Debevoise Digest: Securities Law Synopsis - October 2025
    October 2025
  • From Persuasion to Enrollment – The ExxonMobil Retail Voting Program
    30 September 2025
    Eric T. Juergens
    ,
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    Gordon Moodie
    ,
    Maeve O'Connor
    ,
    William D. Regner
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
  • SEC Policy Statement Concerning Mandatory Arbitration Provisions
    24 September 2025
    Elliot Greenfield
    ,
    Eric T. Juergens
    ,
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    Peter J. Loughran
    ,
    Maeve O'Connor
    ,
    Nicholas P. Pellicani
    ,
    Chris Gallucci
    ,
    Justin A. Norris
  • The End of Quarterly Reporting in the United States? The SEC Signals Support for Shift to Semiannual Reporting
    19 September 2025
    Eric T. Juergens
    ,
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    Peter J. Loughran
    ,
    Benjamin R. Pedersen
    ,
    Nicholas P. Pellicani
    ,
    Paul M. Rodel
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
    ,
    Jonathan R. Tuttle
    ,
    Julia Czyzowicz
    ,
    Paul D. Lowry
  • 2025 Proxy Season in Review
    14 August 2025
    Simone S. Hicks
    ,
    Eric T. Juergens
    ,
    Benjamin R. Pedersen
    ,
    Paul M. Rodel
    ,
    Alison E. Buckley-Serfass
    ,
    Erin Munro
    ,
    Amy Pereira
  • All Aboard: Best Practices for Onboarding Directors
    25 July 2025
    Eric T. Juergens
    ,
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    William D. Regner
    ,
    Amy Pereira
  • 2025 Private Equity Midyear Outlook
    July 2025
    Gavin Anderson
    ,
    Christopher Anthony
    ,
    Erik J. Andrén
    ,
    Katherine Ashton
    ,
    Vadim Avdeychik
    ,
    Megan K. Bannigan
    ,
    Dominic Blaxill
    ,
    Geoffrey P. Burgess
    ,
    Ezra Borut
    ,
    Charu A. Chandrasekhar
    ,
    Jane Engelhardt
    ,
    Avi Gesser
    ,
    Peter J. Irwin
    ,
    Eric T. Juergens
    ,
    M. Natasha Labovitz
    ,
    Andrew M. Levine
    ,
    Sidney P. Levinson
    ,
    Jonathan F. Lewis
    ,
    Yana M. Mereminsky
    ,
    Frank Mitchell
    ,
    Gordon Moodie
    ,
    Edwin Northover
    ,
    Brett M. Novick
    ,
    Sheena Paul
    ,
    Benjamin R. Pedersen
    ,
    Marc Ponchione
    ,
    Ryan T. Rafferty
    ,
    William D. Regner
    ,
    Kevin M. Schmidt
    ,
    Scott B. Selinger
    ,
    Thomas Smith
    ,
    Rick Sofield
    ,
    Ramya S. Tiller
    ,
    Patricia Volhard
    ,
    Jennifer Wheater
    ,
    Alison E. Buckley-Serfass
    ,
    Brett Adam Bush
    ,
    Jennifer R. Cestaro
    ,
    Robert T. Dura
    ,
    Paul Eastham
    ,
    Stuart Hammer
    ,
    Lauren P. Heller
    ,
    Douglas M. Hirn
    ,
    Jin-Hyuk Jang
    ,
    Wen-Wei Lai
    ,
    Kate Saba
    ,
    Ulysses Smith
    ,
    Jordan Corrente Beck
    ,
    Michael C. Godbe
    ,
    John Jacob
    ,
    Keith Moshe
    ,
    Amy Pereira
    ,
    Sheng Shao
    ,
    John D. Sullivan Baker
    ,
    Daniel Hyun Gu Yeo
  • Insider Trading & Disclosure Update - Vol. 13
    July 2025
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    Jonathan R. Tuttle
    ,
    Benjamin R. Pedersen
    ,
    Mark D. Flinn
    ,
    Anna Moody
    ,
    Amy Pereira
    ,
    Tess Kim
    ,
    Erin Munro
    ,
    Jacquelyn Sherman
  • Governance Round-Up Issue 16
    8 July 2025
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    William D. Regner
    ,
    Paul M. Rodel
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
    ,
    Joshua M. Samit
    ,
    Alexander Bracco
    ,
    Amy Pereira
  • AI and Board Oversight — A Quick Update for Core AI Projects
    30 June 2025
    Charu A. Chandrasekhar
    ,
    Avi Gesser
    ,
    Gordon Moodie
    ,
    William D. Regner
  • AI Can Draft Board Minutes—But Should It? Considerations for Public Companies
    17 June 2025
    Charu A. Chandrasekhar
    ,
    Avi Gesser
    ,
    Eric T. Juergens
    ,
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    Kristin A. Snyder
    ,
    Lily Schoen
    ,
    Amy Pereira
  • SLB 14M: Insights from the 2025 Proxy Season
    27 May 2025
    Eric T. Juergens
    ,
    Benjamin R. Pedersen
    ,
    Paul M. Rodel
    ,
    Erin Munro
    ,
    Amy Pereira
  • Governance Round-Up Issue 15
    8 April 2025
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    William D. Regner
    ,
    Paul M. Rodel
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
    ,
    Joshua M. Samit
    ,
    Jasmine Fong
    ,
    Amy Pereira
  • Debevoise Digest: Securities Law Synopsis - March 2025
    March 2025
  • 2024 Private Equity Midyear Outlook
    August 2024
    Christopher Anthony
    ,
    Katherine Ashton
    ,
    Dominic Blaxill
    ,
    Ezra Borut
    ,
    Geoffrey P. Burgess
    ,
    Andrew J. Ceresney
    ,
    Christopher Dortschy
    ,
    Jane Engelhardt
    ,
    Andrew Ford
    ,
    Mark P. Goodman
    ,
    Jyotin Hamid
    ,
    Morgan J. Hayes
    ,
    Peter J. Irwin
    ,
    Eric T. Juergens
    ,
    Arian M. June
    ,
    Robert B. Kaplan
    ,
    M. Natasha Labovitz
    ,
    Andrew M. Levine
    ,
    Sidney P. Levinson
    ,
    Jonathan F. Lewis
    ,
    Gregory J. Lyons
    ,
    Timothy McIver
    ,
    Frank Mitchell
    ,
    Maura Kathleen Monaghan
    ,
    Edwin Northover
    ,
    Brett M. Novick
    ,
    Sheena Paul
    ,
    Marc Ponchione
    ,
    Ryan T. Rafferty
    ,
    Julie M. Riewe
    ,
    Paul D. Rubin
    ,
    Scott B. Selinger
    ,
    Thomas Smith
    ,
    Kristin A. Snyder
    ,
    Rick Sofield
    ,
    Katherine Durnan Taylor
    ,
    Ramya S. Tiller
    ,
    Jonathan R. Tuttle
    ,
    Patricia Volhard
    ,
    Erica S. Weisgerber
    ,
    Jennifer Wheater
    ,
    Naomi Aoyama
    ,
    Alison E. Buckley-Serfass
    ,
    Brett Adam Bush
    ,
    Jennifer R. Cestaro
    ,
    Robert T. Dura
    ,
    Paul Eastham
    ,
    Stuart Hammer
    ,
    Lauren P. Heller
    ,
    Jin-Hyuk Jang
    ,
    Wen-Wei Lai
    ,
    Melissa Runsten
    ,
    Tricia Bozyk Sherno
    ,
    Jacob W. Stahl
    ,
    John Young
    ,
    Ulysses Smith
    ,
    Kayleigh Anderson
    ,
    Hymie A. Anteby
    ,
    Jabari Benjamin
    ,
    Josephine Chen
    ,
    Jordan Corrente Beck
    ,
    Julia Needle
    ,
    Michael C. Godbe
    ,
    Zoe Jacoby
    ,
    Yiran Ji
    ,
    Adriana Kranjac Rielly
    ,
    Paul D. Lowry
    ,
    Kaitlyn McGill
    ,
    Amy Pereira
    ,
    Eike Björn Weidner
    ,
    Keith Moshe
  • Private Equity Report: 2024 Outlook
    February 2024
    Christopher Anthony
    ,
    Katherine Ashton
    ,
    Andrew L. Bab
    ,
    Paul S. Bird
    ,
    Dominic Blaxill
    ,
    Ezra Borut
    ,
    Geoffrey P. Burgess
    ,
    Andrew J. Ceresney
    ,
    Charu A. Chandrasekhar
    ,
    Luke Dembosky
    ,
    E. Drew Dutton
    ,
    Jane Engelhardt
    ,
    Avi Gesser
    ,
    David Grosgold
    ,
    Jyotin Hamid
    ,
    Ted Hassi
    ,
    Morgan J. Hayes
    ,
    Peter J. Irwin
    ,
    Eric T. Juergens
    ,
    Robert B. Kaplan
    ,
    M. Natasha Labovitz
    ,
    Jonathan F. Lewis
    ,
    Sidney P. Levinson
    ,
    Andrew M. Levine
    ,
    Erez Liebermann
    ,
    Timothy McIver
    ,
    Maura Kathleen Monaghan
    ,
    Edwin Northover
    ,
    Brett M. Novick
    ,
    Marc Ponchione
    ,
    Ryan T. Rafferty
    ,
    Natalie L. Reid
    ,
    Julie M. Riewe
    ,
    Kevin Rinker
    ,
    Samantha J. Rowe
    ,
    Paul D. Rubin
    ,
    Michael Schaper
    ,
    Kevin M. Schmidt
    ,
    Scott B. Selinger
    ,
    Thomas Smith
    ,
    Kristin A. Snyder
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
    ,
    Ramya S. Tiller
    ,
    Patricia Volhard
    ,
    Erica S. Weisgerber
    ,
    Alison E. Buckley-Serfass
    ,
    Jennifer R. Cestaro
    ,
    Stuart Hammer
    ,
    Jin-Hyuk Jang
    ,
    Wen-Wei Lai
    ,
    Sheena Paul
    ,
    Melissa Runsten
    ,
    Tricia Bozyk Sherno
    ,
    Ulysses Smith
    ,
    Sergio Torres
    ,
    Elie J. Worenklein
    ,
    Josephine Chen
    ,
    Paul Eastham
    ,
    Yiran Ji
    ,
    Maryam Kanna
    ,
    Perri M. Weinstein
  • 2023 Private Equity Midyear Outlook
    27 July 2023
    Christopher Anthony
    ,
    Katherine Ashton
    ,
    Dominic Blaxill
    ,
    Ezra Borut
    ,
    Geoffrey P. Burgess
    ,
    Andrew J. Ceresney
    ,
    Jeffrey P. Cunard
    ,
    E. Drew Dutton
    ,
    Jane Engelhardt
    ,
    Andrew Ford
    ,
    Mark P. Goodman
    ,
    Jyotin Hamid
    ,
    Ted Hassi
    ,
    Morgan J. Hayes
    ,
    Emily F. Huang
    ,
    Peter J. Irwin
    ,
    Eric T. Juergens
    ,
    Robert B. Kaplan
    ,
    Rafael Kariyev
    ,
    M. Natasha Labovitz
    ,
    Maurizio Levi-Minzi
    ,
    Andrew M. Levine
    ,
    Sidney P. Levinson
    ,
    Jonathan F. Lewis
    ,
    Timothy McIver
    ,
    Frank Mitchell
    ,
    Maura Kathleen Monaghan
    ,
    Edwin Northover
    ,
    Brett M. Novick
    ,
    Marc Ponchione
    ,
    Julie M. Riewe
    ,
    Shannon Rose Selden
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
    ,
    Thomas Smith
    ,
    Kristin A. Snyder
    ,
    J. Michael Snypes, Jr.
    ,
    Patrick Taylor
    ,
    Ramya S. Tiller
    ,
    Patricia Volhard
    ,
    Richard Ward
    ,
    Erica S. Weisgerber
    ,
    Alison E. Buckley-Serfass
    ,
    Brett Adam Bush
    ,
    Robert T. Dura
    ,
    Stuart Hammer
    ,
    Sheena Paul
    ,
    Tricia Bozyk Sherno
    ,
    Ulysses Smith
    ,
    Jacob W. Stahl
    ,
    Sergio Torres
    ,
    Jennifer Wheater
    ,
    Elie J. Worenklein
    ,
    Colleen B. Bernaiche
    ,
    Paul Eastham
    ,
    Christopher Gossage
    ,
    Yiran Ji
    ,
    Maryam Kanna
    ,
    Rekha Korlipara Kreider
    ,
    Adriana Kranjac Rielly
    ,
    Samuel D. Krawiecz
    ,
    Megan MacDonald
    ,
    Harshil Mehta
    ,
    Stanley G. Seckler
    ,
    Sheng Shao
    ,
    Massy Vainshtein
    ,
    Kimberly Anker
  • Nasdaq Board Diversity Listing Rule Approved
    10 December 2021
    Eric T. Juergens
    ,
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
    ,
    Mary Jo White
  • NYSE Further Amends Related Party Transaction Approval Requirements
    27 August 2021
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    Nicholas P. Pellicani
    ,
    Joshua M. Samit
  • SEC Approves New Nasdaq Listing Rule to Advance Diversity
    13 August 2021
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    Joshua M. Samit
  • NASDAQ Follows the NYSE with Rule Changes that Permit Primary Issuances Alongside Direct Listings
    26 May 2021
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
    ,
    Nicholas P. Pellicani
  • NYSE Amends Related Party Transaction Approval Requirements
    25 May 2021
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    Nicholas P. Pellicani
    ,
    Joshua M. Samit
  • Likely Policy Priorities of the Gensler SEC
    14 April 2021
    Kara Brockmeyer
    ,
    Andrew J. Ceresney
    ,
    Arian M. June
    ,
    Robert B. Kaplan
    ,
    Julie M. Riewe
    ,
    Jeff Robins
    ,
    Jonathan R. Tuttle
    ,
    Charu A. Chandrasekhar
  • Governance Round-Up Issue 9
    23 April 2019
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    William D. Regner
    ,
    Jeffrey J. Rosen
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
    ,
    Joshua M. Samit
  • ISS Updates for 2019 Spotlight Gender Diversity
    26 November 2018
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    Paul M. Rodel
    ,
    Joshua M. Samit
  • Governance Round-Up Issue 7
    October 2018
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    William D. Regner
    ,
    Jeffrey J. Rosen
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
    ,
    Joshua M. Samit
  • SEC Issues New Guidance on Public Company Cybersecurity Disclosure and Governance
    22 February 2018
    Luke Dembosky
    ,
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    Jim Pastore
    ,
    Paul M. Rodel
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
    ,
    Joshua M. Samit
  • SEC Provides Guidance on Accounting Impacts of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
    5 January 2018
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    Paul M. Rodel
    ,
    Joshua M. Samit
  • Additional Flexibility for Upcoming CEO Pay Ratio Compliance
    16 October 2017
    Lawrence K. Cagney
    ,
    Jonathan F. Lewis
    ,
    Elizabeth Pagel Serebransky
    ,
    Alison E. Buckley-Serfass
  • Governance Round-Up Issue 3
    December 2015
    Jeffrey J. Rosen
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
    ,
    William D. Regner
    ,
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    Gary W. Kubek
  • Germany Tightens Voting Rights Disclosure Regime and Steps Up Sanctions
    2 December 2015
    Dr. Thomas Schürrle
    ,
    Philipp von Holst
  • Governance Round-Up Issue 2
    November 2015
    Jeffrey J. Rosen
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
    ,
    William D. Regner
    ,
    Matthew E. Kaplan
  • SEC Issues Guidance on Rule 14a-8(i)(9)
    23 October 2015
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    Peter J. Loughran
    ,
    Alan H. Paley
    ,
    Paul M. Rodel
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
  • SEC Enforcement Actions Getting Up Close and Personal
    23 September 2015
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    Alan H. Paley
    ,
    Jonathan R. Tuttle
  • Governance Round-Up Issue 1
    September 2015
    Jeffrey J. Rosen
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky
    ,
    William D. Regner
    ,
    Matthew E. Kaplan
  • Basel Committee 2015 Corporate Governance Principles
    11 August 2015
    Satish M. Kini
    ,
    Gregory J. Lyons
    ,
    Paul M. Rodel
    ,
    Eric T. Juergens
    ,
    Caroline N. Swett
  • ISS 2016 Annual Policy Survey Open Until September 4
    6 August 2015
    Matthew E. Kaplan
    ,
    Paul M. Rodel
    ,
    Steven J. Slutzky

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