Webcast: IPO and Public Company Readiness: Advance Planning for 2025 and 2026 IPOs – Corporate Governance and ESG Considerations

Webcasts  |  November 12, 2024

Please join us for a briefing where we explore corporate governance and ESG considerations in preparing for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) and becoming a public company. We delve into state-of-the-art corporate governance policies and practices that companies should implement in connection with the IPO process, ensuring alignment with market practices and evolving trends. Attendees will gain insights into investor and proxy advisor expectations, key issues under Delaware law and stock exchange listing standards.

This session is designed for executives, board members, inhouse counsel and corporate advisors preparing for an IPO or seeking to enhance their tailored and thoughtful governance and ESG practices.

Key topics include:

  1. Market Practices and Trends: An overview of current governance trends, including board composition, board operations, and shareholder rights, and how companies should be thinking about positioning themselves.
  2. Investor and Proxy Advisor Expectations: Understanding the criteria used by institutional investors and proxy advisors to evaluate a company’s corporate governance framework, including in the context of ESG.
  3. Law Regulatory and State Law Requirements: Navigating the complexities and evolving landscape of corporate law in Delaware and Texas, including fiduciary duties and shareholder agreements, and stock exchange listing requirements and SEC requirements and disclosures.
  4. ESG Considerations: Considerations regarding evolving ESG expectations, risks and practices, including their impact on marketing, investor relations, corporate governance, compliance with regulatory requirements.

PANELISTS:

Aaron Briggs is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s San Francisco, CA office, where he works in the firm’s Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance practice group. Mr. Briggs’ practice focuses on advising public companies of all sizes (from pre-IPO to mega-cap), with a focus on technology and life sciences companies, on a wide range of securities and governance matters.

Hillary Holmes is co-chair of the firm’s Capital Markets practice group and a member of the firm’s Securities Regulation & Corporate Governance, Mergers & Acquisitions, ESG, and Energy & Infrastructure Practice Groups. Hillary also serves as co-partner-in-charge of the Houston office and as a member the firm’s Executive Committee.

Lori Zyskowski is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s New York office and Co-Chair of the Firm’s Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group. Ms. Zyskowski advises public companies and their boards of directors on corporate governance matters, securities disclosure and compliance issues, shareholder engagement and activism matters, shareholder proposals, environmental, social and governance matters, and executive compensation practices.

MCLE CREDIT INFORMATION:

This program has been approved for credit in accordance with the requirements of the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board for a maximum of 1.0 credit hour, of which 1.0 credit hour may be applied toward the areas of professional practice requirement. This course is approved for transitional/non-transitional credit.

Attorneys seeking New York credit must obtain an Affirmation Form prior to watching the archived version of this webcast. Please contact [email protected] to request the MCLE form.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP certifies that this activity has been approved for MCLE credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of 1.0 hour in the General Category.

California attorneys may claim “self-study” credit for viewing the archived version of this webcast. No certificate of attendance is required for California “self-study” credit.

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