Martin Lipton, Steven A. Rosenblum, William Savitt, Karessa L. Cain, Hannah Clark and Bita Assad

Wachtell Lipton Discusses the Purpose and Objective of the Corporation

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As we approach the first anniversary of the Business Roundtable’s abandonment of shareholder primacy and embrace of stakeholder governance, and the fourth anniversary of our development for the World Economic Forum of The New Paradigm:  A Roadmap for an Implicit Corporate Governance Partnership Between Corporations and Investors to Achieve Sustainable Long-Term Investment and Growth, we thought it useful to consider in broader context the key issues of corporate governance and investor stewardship today.  While there is no universal consensus, the question underlying these issues can be expressed as:  What is the corporation trying to achieve?  What is its objective… Read more

Wachtell Lipton Offers Thoughts for Boards of Directors in 2020

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The past six months have been marked by a profound upheaval that has accelerated the growing focus on both the purpose of the corporation and the role of the board in overseeing and leading the corporation in ways that promote sustainable business success.  For a number of years, there has been a growing sense of urgency around issues such as climate change, environmental degradation, globalization, workplace inequality and the need to keep pace with rapidly evolving technologies.  Then, in recent months, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted a systemic shock, which has been accompanied by a long overdue awakening regarding endemic racial … Read more