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Unlocking Shareholder Value with One Hard Conversation

December 1, 2020 by Adam J. Epstein

I spend most of my time in boardrooms and board meetings. I know it’s been fashionable over the years for people to carp that most boards are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Blog, Board Advisory, General Tagged With: Board Advisory

Emails, Boardrooms, and Attorney-Client Privilege

July 28, 2020 by Adam J. Epstein

In each of the 10 years my firm has been in existence, I’ve witnessed a disastrous boardroom situation. All of them had three things in common: (1) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Blog, General, Lawyers - Legal Tagged With: Law

The Importance of a Great Chair to Small-Cap Boards

April 22, 2020 by Adam J. Epstein

I am on the Editorial Advisory Board of Small-Cap Institute, Inc.  With SCI’s approval, I thought I would share one of their recent articles that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Blog, General Tagged With: Board Advisory

Lesson Learned: Brand Stewardship Requires Relentless Vigilance… and Then Some

January 21, 2020 by Adam J. Epstein

Last week, I was reading a terrific article to be published in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review by Professor Elizabeth Pollman entitled, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Blog, General, Investors Tagged With: Board Advisory, Corporate Governance, IPOs

Sorry VCs, Direct Listings Are Not a Magic Elixir

December 2, 2019 by Adam J. Epstein

Spotify Technology and Slack Technologies, each multibillion-dollar companies, listed their shares for trading on the New York Stock Exchange in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Blog, General Tagged With: Board Advisory, IPOs

The Case for Deregulating Small-Caps

October 1, 2019 by Adam J. Epstein

There are roughly now half the number of companies listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market and the New York Stock Exchange as there were in the mid-1990s, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Blog, General Tagged With: Board Advisory, Corporate Governance

Small-Cap Boards Can’t Afford to Ignore CEO Communication Skills

July 31, 2019 by Adam J. Epstein

Seasoned small-cap fund managers are forensic observers: they parse everything they read and hear. Many have learned that small-caps are risky enough … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Blog, General Tagged With: Board Advisory, Corporate Governance

Why Today’s Founder CEOs Should Google… Google

May 23, 2019 by Adam J. Epstein

Lore has it that when Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page raised some $25 million from venture capital icons Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Blog, General Tagged With: Board Advisory, Corporate Governance

Small-Cap Takeaways From Facebook’s Year of Falling Face-First

April 4, 2019 by Adam J. Epstein

By most measures, 2018 was a tough year for Facebook. In addition to losing nearly a quarter of its stock market value between June and December, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Audit, General Tagged With: Corporate Governance

A Resolution for Governance “Experts”

February 20, 2019 by Adam J. Epstein

Every week I sit with small-cap board members who are confused by what they read in governance books and articles and hear at conferences. Sometimes I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Blog, General Tagged With: Corporate Governance

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