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Question - Fact Pattern
Your best friend, Robyn, has just been elected to a post as an outside director of Crypto-Chatter-Box, Inc., a publicly traded corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
She has asked you for some legal risk management tips that would be helpful for her to keep in mind as she steps into her new role.
Crypto-Chatter-Box is a social media company that caters to the cryptocurrency community.
The company has come under recent scrutiny by regulators due to its lax privacy policies.
The company has been involved in a couple of proxy fights in the last 5 years, and it is rumored that this coming year, a group of investors is considering yet another proxy fight and possibly launching a hostile tender offer.
Memo - Create (2) page memo for Robyn. Base the memo on the materials covered in:
Securities Regulation and the Capital Markets
Mergers and Acquisition
Corporate and Partnership Tax
Mergers and Acquisitions - Public Companies
Identify four (4) legal risk management issues. For each of these four legal risk management issues, please:
State why the legal risk in the question is an important one for Robyn and other board members to keep in mind, and
Describe what steps Robyn and other board members should take in order to reduce potential legal liability (for both themselves and the company).