A year ago, President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, a legislative product of rare bipartisan collaboration that was intended to improve employment and make it easier for smaller firms to raise private equity. (For an overview of the Act’s provisions, refer here.) Twelve months later, many of the rules needed
IPO Companies
Guest Post: D&O Insurance for Initial Public Offerings — What Every Director Needs to Know
By Kevin LaCroix on
Posted in D & O Insurance
I am pleased to publish below a guest post written by Paul A. Ferrillo of the Weil Gotshal and Manges law firm. Paul’s guest post identifies the liability exposures that IPO companies and their directors and officers face, and describes the insurance considerations the companies should address in confronting those exposures. Paul’s article was first printed …