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Corporate Governance Field Guide
Baker Botts' Corporate Governance Field Guide delivers concise, practical insights on critical issues facing public and private company officers, directors, stockholders, and stakeholders. The series provides actionable perspectives from the firm's Securities Litigation and Corporate Governance teams, covering topics including board communications, Caremark duties, and Delaware and Texas books and records demands. Each installment highlights best practices, emerging risks, and trends shaping today's boardro
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Corporate Governance Field Guide
Baker Botts' Corporate Governance Field Guide delivers concise, practical insights on critical issues facing public and private company officers, directors, stockholders, and stakeholders. The series provides actionable perspectives from the firm's Securities Litigation and Corporate Governance teams, covering topics including board communications, Caremark duties, and Delaware and Texas books and records demands. Each installment highlights best practices, emerging risks, and trends shaping today's boardro
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Baker Botts LLP
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First Court Of Chancery Decision Interpreting New DGCL Amendments Provides Greater Certainty For Boards And M&A
The Delaware Court of Chancery has issued its first decision applying the recently amended Section 144 of the DGCL, establishing a heightened presumption of director disinterestedness that extends beyond conflicted transaction safe harbors. The ruling clarifies that common allegations such as overlapping board service, business relationships, and minority co-investments will not suffice to rebut this presumption without substantial and particularized facts showing a disabling conflict.
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Using Trusts To Maximise The Benefits Of Qualified Small Business Stock In The US
Section 1202 of the US tax code offers qualified small business stock (QSBS) holders the ability to exclude significant capital gains from federal income tax, with recent legislation raising the exclusion cap to $15 million per taxpayer for stock acquired after July 4, 2025. Strategic use of properly structured non-grantor trusts can multiply these tax benefits through "trust stacking" while simultaneously achieving substantial estate tax savings. Cross-border families and multinational founders must coordi
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Contracts And Purchase Orders In Mexico – Their Role In Demonstrating Customs Compliance And The Substance Of Foreign Trade Transactions
Recent amendments to Mexico’s customs legislation has expanded these obligations to require importers to include additional information and documentation to the electronic file, the electronic value manifest (Manifestación de Valor) and also to share specific documents with the Mexican Customs broker.
United States International
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Braumiller Law Group, PLLC
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Texas Business Court Clarifies Limits of ‘Related Transactions’ for Jurisdictional Threshold Introduction
In Clean-Co Systems, Inc. v. Enterprise Products Operating, LLC, Judge Grant Dorfman examined whether historical transactions under a master service agreement could be aggregated to meet the Texas Business Court's $5 million jurisdictional threshold for a "qualified transaction." The court's analysis focused on whether past invoices spanning over two decades were sufficiently "related" to a current payment dispute involving a single purchase order valued at approximately $688,000.
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Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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