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The Public Company Handbook: A Corporate Governance and Disclosure Guide for Directors and Executives

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The Public Company Handbook

A Corporate Governance and Disclosure Guide for Directors and Executives - Sixth Edition

Our sixth edition of The Public Company Handbook: A Corporate Governance and Disclosure Guide for Directors and Executives, provides a "plain English" guide for directors, officers and other executives seeking to familiarize themselves with legal and other board and management issues facing public or soon-to-be-public companies. This guide incorporates changes to SEC, NYSE, NASDAQ and state law requirements and guidance, in addition to common governance practice, made over the last five years, when our previous edition was released.
 

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Chapter 1: You’re a Public Company? What Does It Mean?

Chapter 2: Corporate Governance: Best Practices in the Boardroom

Chapter 3: Investor and Other Stakeholder Engagement

Chapter 4: Nuts & Bolts: The Basics of Public Company Periodic Reporting Obligations

Chapter 5: Finding Your Voice: Disclosure Practices for Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Regulations FD and M-A

Chapter 6: Insider Reporting Obligations and Insider Trading Restrictions; Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plans

Chapter 7: Proxy Statements and Proxy Solicitation

Chapter 8: Annual Meeting of Shareholders

Chapter 9: NYSE Listing Standards: Governance on the "Big Board"

Chapter 10: Nasdaq Listing Standards: To Market, to Market

Chapter 11: Corporate Structural Defenses to Takeovers

Chapter 12: Follow-On Offerings and Shelf Registrations

Chapter 13: Securities and Corporate Governance Litigation

Chapter 14: Tiring of the Public Eye? Delisting, Deregistration and Going Private

Chapter 15: Foreign Private Issuers

The Public Company Handbook: Appendix 1-5

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