European Commission Looks to Improve Corporate Governance

March 25, 2011

The European Commission announced that it is seeking input on ways to improve monitoring and enforcement of corporate governance. “One of the lessons of the (financial) crisis is that corporate governance, until now usually based on self-regulation, was not as effective as it could have been,” said the Brussels-based commission on its website.  A “higher [...]

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Survey Finds Most Companies Won’t Do Business with Trade Regulation Violators

March 1, 2011

A recent survey by Deloitte found potential trade violations to be a deal breaker for the majority of companies surveyed. Sixty-two percent of respondents to Deloitte’s annual “Look Before You Leap” survey of more than 500 corporate executives, investment bankers, private equity executives and hedge fund managers renegotiated or pulled out of deals over the [...]

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