Corporate Governance

Orrick’s Corporate Group regularly provides advice to corporate management, boards of directors and board committees, helping them navigate the complex international landscape of governance matters, including corporate governance, legal compliance, fiduciary duties and board oversight responsibilities. Our clients range in size from NYSE-listed to micro-cap companies, and span across a variety of industries, including information technology, consumer and retail, professional services, life sciences, chemicals and energy.

Navigating Changing Tides

Our lawyers are attuned to the evolving issues in the worldwide corporate governance sector, and we tailor our assistance to each client's unique set of needs. We work with you to quickly find the best path in responding to ongoing changes requiring enhanced disclosure and dictating greater rigor and accountability with respect to corporate governance.

Acting as an Extension of Your In-House Team

Our objective is to serve as "company lawyers," partnering with and serving as an extension of our clients' in-house teams. As a result, we are focused on bringing the highest level of attention not only to significant transactional matters, but also to our clients' day-to-day compliance and legal issues.

Orrick’s corporate governance team is an international cross-discipline team with a broad yet deep understanding of those factors that impact public companies, ranging from general corporate compliance to critical and significant business moves and corporate crises. We are focused on delivering value and developing mutual trust with our clients and dedicated to understanding trends in our clients' businesses to proactively identify and address risk with the best solutions.

We advise our clients on a broad range of corporate governance issues, including:

• Corporate governance
• Board of Directors meetings and Board Committee meetings
• Strategic planning
• Disclosure and reporting obligations under federal and state securities laws, including the preparation and filing of 10-Ks, 10-Qs, 8-Ks and proxy statements
• NYSE, NASDAQ and other stock exchange requirements, including director independence issues
• Fiduciary duties and internal investigations
• D&O liability and insurance matters
• Investor relations
• Interactions with securities analysts
• Annual and special shareholder meetings and proxy solicitations
• Stockholder proposals
• Corporate compliance programs