Topic
Backdating
35 published works
Securities Law Prof Blog
SEC Charges Expected Against Two Former Apple Officers
Two former Apple officers are expected to be named as defendants in SEC actions involving backdating of stock options at that company. Nancy R. Heinan, the former general counsel, allegedly…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Backdating of Options:Viewpoint of Economists
Dr. Renzo Comolli and 3 of his colleagues at NERA provide an exhaustive and scholarly economic analysis of backdated options in a very recent paper entitled: Options Backdating: The Statistics…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Nabors Reports BackDating
Nabors Industries announced that an internal review showed that some stock option grants from 1991-1997 had been backdated, Grantees on the relevant dates included to its CEO, Eugene Isenberg. Nabors…
Securities Law Prof Blog
SEC Charges Former McAfee GC
This morning the news was that Kent Roberts, former GC at McAfee, was indicted in connection with the stock options backdating scandal. Today the SEC announced that it is charging…
The Retirement Plan Blog
How financial forensics uncovered the backdated stock option scandal
By Jerry Kalish
The backdated stock option scandal is one of those stories that continues to have legs. Last week two news stories appeared. The first was the publication of IR-2007-30, the announcement…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Yaniv Grinstein, & Urs Peyer, Lucky Directors (421).Lucian Arye Bebchuk, Martijn Cramers, & Urs Peyer, Pay Distribution in the Top Executive Team (104).Albert Feuer, How Employment Agreements…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Backdating at Marvell Technology Group?
By Ellen Podgor
Many a company are examining their stock option grants to see if any were engaged in backdating. They may be asking whether the grants deliberately set dates that would allow…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Options-Timing Cases March Onward
By Ellen Podgor
The time between Christmas and the New Year is supposed to be quiet, with little news emerging because so many people are on vacation. That is not the case with…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Ribstein on Backdating Stock Options and Lucky CEOs
Prof. Larry Ribstein of Ideoblog fame, has a post on the Harvard Law School's Corporate Governance Blog on the topic of backdating stock options and "lucky CEOs". Here is the link:…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
Monster Woldwide Fesses Up to Options Backdating
By Ellen Podgor
On-line employment company Monster Worldwide, Inc. disclosed that the options backdating at the company was the result of intentional conduct and not "mere oversights" by executives. A press release (here)…