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California Court Strikes Down Second Board Diversity Law

June 7, 2022

United States: On May 13, 2022, the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles held in Crest v. Padilla, Case No. 19STCV27561, that California Senate Bill (SB) 826, requiring publicly held corporations with principal executive offices located in California to have a minimum number of women on their boards, violates the Equal Protection Clause of the California Constitution.

The obligation of directors to declare the absence of causes of ineligibility (in Italian)

February 21, 2022

Italy: New provisions of the Italian Civil Code have recently been adopted, introducing – inter alia – the obligation for candidates for appointment as members of the administrative body of a limited company (“società di capitali”) to declare that no grounds for ineligibility exist against them, nor any disqualification from acting as directors adopted against them in any country of the European Union.

10 things to consider if your organisation becomes involved in a public inquiry

February 15, 2022

United Kingdom: On 15 December 2021 the Prime Minister announced the COVID-19 public inquiry and appointed the Right Honourable Baroness Heather Hallett DBE as chair. The inquiry is likely to take evidence from a wide range of businesses.

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