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Directors and officers are no strangers to governance risks, but not all risks are obvious. A great example of a hidden risk for directors is Section 8 of the Clayton Antitrust Act. Section 8 ...

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The FTC last month forced drastic changes to a $5.2 billion energy deal by invoking the Clayton Act's prohibition on having a director of one company also serve as a director of a competitor. The ...

Italy plans to revise rules on ​enhanced voting rights to prevent leading shareholders from forcing the hand of minority ‌investors in takeover bids aimed at de-listing companies, a draft decree seen ...

Interlocking directorates — the practice of the same director sitting on the boards of competing companies — have long been identified with backroom deals and corporate collusion. In 1914, when ...