Director & Officer Liability

In today’s market, corporate officers and directors are under increased scrutiny from shareholders, regulators, and company creditors.  Disappointed investors are being advised by the plaintiff’s bar to look to directors and officers to recoup their losses.  With the advent of Sarbanes-Oxley, corporate officers and directors are operating in a radically different environment that requires experienced counsel.
 

Sirote & Permutt has a corporate/litigation team that combines the firm’s sixty (60) years of corporate and tax experience advising corporate officers and directors with the experience of seasoned litigators with knowledge in the areas of derivative and shareholder litigation.  The firm’s attorneys have between 10-35 years experience in this area, and include lawyers who have served as adjunct law professors and in house counsel to multi-million dollar corporations.  Sirote & Permutt has experience advising directors and officers about their ethical and fiduciary duties, defending corporate officers and directors in lawsuits brought by shareholders, regulators, and company creditors, and negotiating for and purchasing Director and Officer liability policies.

Publications

The Uncertainty of Basis Increases in Connection with Back-to-Back Loans to S Corporations - 9/1/2009

SMART Alert - 1/9/2009

SMART Alert - 1/7/2009

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