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Corporate Governance & Disclosure

An important part of the firm's securities practice is assisting clients with their disclosure and reporting obligations under the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act and the exchange listing requirements. Stites & Harbison's securities attorneys review and assist in the preparation of periodic reports, proxy statements and news releases for public clients and advise and assist directors and senior executives of the firm's public clients in connection with their reporting and compliance obligations under Section 16 of the 1934 Act. A significant part of our securities and corporate governance practice is devoted to counseling clients on compliance matters under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The firm's attorneys have rendered advice and prepared proxy material for matters ranging from routine annual meetings to special voting items such as defensive charter amendments. The firm has also prepared numerous reorganization proxy statements, including disclosure statements for both cash and stock acquisitions. For new public companies, Stites & Harbison assists in the development of procedures for complying with public reporting requirements and compliance procedures for monitoring and reporting trading activities in company securities by directors and officers.

The firm's attorneys also counsel corporate clients concerning general corporate law. In particular, Stites & Harbison advises boards of directors on corporate governance matters, including issues relating to executive compensation, shareholder rights and remedies, anti-takeover defenses and shareholder rights plans.

Representative Transactions:

  • Issuer counsel for public offering of common stock by Steel Technologies Inc.
  • Issuer counsel for public offering of trust preferred securities by S. Y. Bancorp, Inc.
  • Underwriters’ counsel for public offering of convertible subordinated notes by CompuDyne Corporation
  • Investor counsel for purchase of convertible preferred stock and common stock of Res-Care Inc. by Onex Partners
  • Company counsel for Series B venture capital investment in China-based pharmaceutical company
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Tesla, Inc. (“Tesla”) and Elon Musk suffered another setback in their continuing efforts to overcome a legal challenge to a 2018 performance-based stock option grant (the “Grant”) that, at today’s stock price, would be worth over $100 billion to Musk. Brian Cromer takes a look at the case in this Stites & Harbison Client Alert.

by Brian A. Cromer and James E. Myers December 12, 2024
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Nicholas J. Lococo Joins Stites & Harbison’s Louisville Office

Stites & Harbison, PLLC welcomes attorney Nicholas J. Lococo (Nick) to the firm’s Louisville, Ky., office. He is a Member (Partner) in the Business & Finance Service Group.

by Stites & Harbison, PLLC May 17, 2024