By Maxwell Salazar A private equity firm closes a deal with a rock-solid financial thesis. The P&L looked strong, the market dynamics were favorable, and the management team seemed fine in the boardroom. Six months post-close, the reality shifts. A
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Grace E. Platt is an associate at Bass, Berry & Sims where she represents clients in complex business litigation, with a focus on securities and stockholder litigation matters. Her practice involves representing clients in post-closing disputes, securities class actions, derivative
Britt K. Latham is a member at Bass, Berry & Sims, where he chairs the firm’s Securities & Shareholder Litigation Practice Group. He provides advice on corporate and securities issues and represents public companies, directors, and senior management in securities
By: Britt Latham and Grace Platt, Bass, Berry & Sims PLC Every company will eventually face a shareholder departure. Whether driven by retirement, strategic disagreement, or personal circumstances, the transition can unfold as a straightforward buyback, or it can spiral
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Janice V. Kapner is CEO & Founder of Kapner Perspective Group and former Chief Communications & Corporate Responsibility Officer at T-Mobile. A trusted advisor to CEOs and boards, she has more than 30 years of experience helping Fortune 50 companies
By: Janice Kapner, CEO & Founder, Kapner Perspective Group Today, board directors oversee organizations in a state of near-constant transformation. With AI, digital upgrades, market changes, new regulations, acquisitions, and shifting customer needs, the push to evolve never really stops.
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Anuj A. Shah is a Partner at Grant Thornton Stax and a senior leader in the firm’s Responsible Investing & Sustainability Advisory practice, where he draws on his capital markets and advisory experience to help boards, private equity sponsors, portfolio
By: Anuj A. Shah, Partner at Grant Thornton Stax Many corporate boards are engaging with sustainability at a moment when the operating environment is reshaping its business relevance. Trade fragmentation, industrial policy, energy security, supply-chain redesign, workforce constraints, procurement standards,
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By Shawn Cole, President and co-founder of Cowen Partners Executive Search Data shows that in more than half of CEO transitions, the CFO is replaced within 18 months. This pattern shows up often enough that it stops looking like a
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Jeff Mullen is VP of Strategy at Prodoscore, a workforce productivity analytics platform. He has spent his career at the intersection of finance and people analytics, building measurement functions at organizations including the Federal Reserve Board and LinkedIn and advising
