Our sixth edition of The Public Company Handbook:  A Corporate Governance and Disclosure Guide for Directors and Executives, provides a “plain English” guide for directors, officers and other executives seeking to familiarize themselves with legal and other board and management issues facing public or soon-to-be-public companies. This guide incorporates changes to SEC, NYSE, NASDAQ and state law requirements and guidance, in addition to common governance practice, made over the last five years, when our previous edition was released.

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	You’re a Public Company? What Does It Mean?
	Corporate Governance: Best Practices in the Boardroom
	Investor and Other Stakeholder Engagement
	Nuts & Bolts: The Basics of Public Company Periodic Reporting Obligations
	Finding Your Voice: Disclosure Practices for Non-GAAP Financial Measures and Regulations FD and M-A
	Insider Reporting Obligations and Insider Trading Restrictions; Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plans
	Proxy Statements and Proxy Solicitation
	Annual Meeting of Shareholders
	NYSE Listing Standards: Governance on the "Big Board"
	Nasdaq Listing Standards: To Market, to Market
	Corporate Structural Defenses to Takeovers
	Follow-On Offerings and Shelf Registrations
	Securities and Corporate Governance Litigation
	Tiring of the Public Eye? Delisting, Deregistration and Going Private
	Foreign Private Issuers
	Appendix