Patrick J. Dooley

Anti-Corruption

Patrick J. Dooley, Richard A. Sibery | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

The role for chief compliance officers, general counsel, financial and accounting professionals during proposed mergers, acquisitions and dispositions of assets has expanded in recent years as greater public law, policy and enforcement activity is required to ensure that a contemplated...

Patrick J. Dooley | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Editor: Tell us about recent developments affecting how shareholders vote for directors of public companies. Dooley: The first was the approval by the SEC of a proposal by the New York Stock Exchange to limit the ability of brokers to vote on a discretionary basis for directors if no instructions...