Our Corporate Governance Group draws on the experience of lawyers in various departments and includes litigators, securities lawyers and corporate lawyers.  Our clients are both public and private companies.  We regularly advise senior management and the boards of directors of public company clients on complying with fiduciary duties under Delaware corporate law, on considering strategic business decisions affecting shareholder interests, and on general compliance with securities and corporate laws.  We also represent privately held companies in accommodating appropriate aspects of the new corporate governance regime in order to go public or to become part of a publicly held company group, or in response to the increasing expectations of lenders, insurance companies, business partners and non-management owners.

One of our principals serves as outside counsel on the steering committee of a major financial institution, providing regular advice to senior management on a variety of corporate governance and business issues.  We advise public companies on securities compliance and disclosure issues, on avoiding insider trading by employees, on managing investor relations, and on making disclosures in press releases and in securities filings.  We also advise companies on criminal, records retention, whistleblower protection, retirement plan "blackout" periods and other aspects of Sarbanes-Oxley that are not limited to public companies.  We recently began representing the audit committee of a public company in meeting its expanded duties under Sarbanes-Oxley.

For more information about our Corporate Governance Group, please contact:

Keith Sigale
312.201.3905
keith.sigale@goldbergkohn.com