The Directors' Handbook

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By Thomas J. Dougherty

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CSC brings you The Directors' Handbook, one of today's leading guides to corporate governance, captures the latest developments that directors of public companies face from both a practical and legal perspective. The Handbook provides insightful analysis of the evolving regulatory and legal landscape, and practical, hands-on information that directors can use to guide their companies.

This edition of The Directors' Handbook includes insight on how to best address the full spectrum of key governance and disclosure issues, and how to handle shareholder activist campaigns and proxy battles. Complete coverage includes:

  • Creating an audit committee chart
  • Crisis management
  • Director and office insurance
  • Majority voting for directors
  • The interplay of stock exchange independence rules and state law standards
  • The evolving role of proxy advisory groups
  • The role of the corporate secretary
  • Staggered board repeals
  • Best practices for handling restatement crises
  • The political economy of corporations and corporate governance approaches around the role of the corporate secretary
  • The Directors' Handbook