Podcast #57 | Anat Alon-Beck: Private Markets and Waivers of Stockholder Inspection Rights

In episode #57 of the Boardroom Governance Podcast, Evan Epstein talks with Anat Alon-Beck, a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

Anat’s research focuses on corporate law and governance, including how legal and regulatory structures influence the shift in equities from public markets to private markets, and the rise of “unicorn” firms.

In this podcast, they talk about one of the latest practices in unicorn companies compelling employees, who are not yet stockholders, to waive their stockholder inspection rights under Delaware General Corporation Law (Section 220) as a condition to receiving stock options from the company.

They discuss some cases such as DOMO, Good Technology and JUUL, plus other corporate governance trends in venture-backed companies such as super-voting shares, FF preferred stock, and fiduciary duties of directors in private companies.

You can listen to the episode directly at https://boardroom-governance.com/episodes/anat-alon-beck where you can find the show notes), or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts such as in: Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon or Stitcher.

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