In July 2008, bankruptcy courts across the US prepared themselves for a busy season. As many as 5,664 companies sought to liquidate or restructure that month alone, a 57% increase from the prior year. This Note looks behind the shield of D&O insurance and examines its treatment under the Bankruptcy Code. Part I provides an overview of the duties of directors and officers of a corporation, as well as the protections they receive under the business judgment rule and indemnification contracts. Part II explains the three different "sides" of D&O insurance policies. Part III discusses basic bankruptcy concepts including directors' and officers' duties in bankruptcy, automatic stay, and property of the estate provisions of the Code, as well as the treatment of contracts in bankruptcy....
Section 1. Order of Succession. Subject to the provisions of section 2 of this memorandum, and to the limitations set forth in the Act, the following officers of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), in the order listed, shall act as and perform the functions and duties of the office of the President of OPIC during any period in which the President of OPIC has died, resigned, or otherwise become unable to perform the functions and duties of the office of the President of OPIC:
The doctrine of corporate fiduciary obligation -- which holds that corporate officers and directors are fiduciaries of the corporation and its shareholders and are disciplined primarily through the enforcement of fiduciary duties -- has been the core basis of all corporate law. The officers and directors of a corporation do not own the corporation or its assets. Instead, they manage them for the benefit of the corporation's investors. Corporate and securities laws and practice increasingly reveal a distrust of management and a growing assumption that they will hold self interest paramount within the bounds of the law. Corporate governance is evolving to accommodate those changes in the beginning premises about what corporate managers are and how they are supposed to serve the firm. By c...
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