John McCarrick

Those who follow Directors’ and Officers’ indemnification and advancement issues know that there are a host of recurring questions surrounding executives’ advancement rights, including whether there are duration or amount limits on a company’s advancement obligations. In the following guest post, John McCarrick, a partner at the Robinson & Cole law firm in New York, takes a look at these issues in the context of recent high-profile dispute involving executives at JPMorgan. Our thanks to John for allowing us to publish his article guest post on this site. Here is John’s article.

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As part of its September 19, 2013 entry into a total of $920 million in regulatory settlements related to the “London Whale” trading loss debacle, and as part of the SEC’s new policy requiring admissions of wrongdoing in certain “egregious” cases, JP Morgan provided the SEC with an extensive set of factual admissions. The company’s

In the wake of JP Morgan Chase’s startling news last week of its $2 billion trading loss, and of the equaling startling statements of Jamie DImon, the bank’s CEO, that the losing trades were, among other things, “flawed, complex, poorly reviewed, poorly executed, and poorly monitored,” there has been speculation whether these disclosures would lead to