With the world more globally interconnected than ever, even established companies can take an unexpected tumble and be forced into...Read more
Michael Reilly

Michael Reilly was a 24-year veteran of Reuters Group before becoming president of internet communication specialist Hally Enterprises
Latest articles
A resurgence in global activism looks to be on the cards after a somnolent couple of years during which the financial crisis rocked...Read more
Canadian corporate secretaries, just like their US cohorts, must juggle a wide range of concerns on behalf of their company and its...Read more
If the CFO of your company hasn’t got the word ‘escheat’ in his or her vocabulary, now is the time to flick through the dictionary and...Read more
August 2011
With the world more globally interconnected than ever, even established companies can take an unexpected tumble and be forced into...Read more
March 2011
A resurgence in global activism looks to be on the cards after a somnolent couple of years during which the financial crisis rocked...Read more
April 2010
Canadian corporate secretaries, just like their US cohorts, must juggle a wide range of concerns on behalf of their company and its...Read more
March 2010
If the CFO of your company hasn’t got the word ‘escheat’ in his or her vocabulary, now is the time to flick through the dictionary and...Read more
January 2010
The judges noted that this category was among the most hotly contested, with the best horse proving hard to discern. At the ribbon,...Read more
‘The question is, is anybody reading it?’ says GE corporate and securities counsel Chris Pereira when asked how his team addressed the...Read more
October 2009
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is not a group often associated with controversy. In 2008, however, when FASB brought...Read more
April 2009
Getting a set of rules in place to govern shareholder communications is an arduous process at best. The conundrum arises wherever...Read more
March 2009
The Sanskrit word for truth is satyam, incidentally the name of the Hyderabad-based computer services company that imploded in January...Read more
January 2009
While times are dark for many of America’s workers and businesses, there is little doubt that pent-up demand will unfurl in due course...Read more
September 2008
Like the fabled flutter of a butterfly wing that can, in a series of stages, turn a light breeze into a violent whirlwind, a hushed...Read more
June 2008
Companies the world over are irked by the increasing number of national and industry regulatory bodies that need to be appeased and...Read more
May 2008
The way all public companies, financial institutions and the markets as a whole are policed could be about to undergo significant...Read more
March 2008
When credit markets dried up briefly in the summer of 2006 it caused significant ripples throughout the world’s financial system,...Read more
January 2008
As both economic and political spotlights shine across the corporate landscape in this highly charged election year, the 2008 proxy...Read more
November 2007
Surging compliance requirements are driving corporate general counsel to find better methods to improve management of their legal...Read more
October 2007
The crush of regulatory burdens coupled with increasing demand for much closer board supervision of daily company business activities...Read more
June 2007
The SEC had to do a bit of fire-fighting in late spring as a Wall Street Journal story smoked out the topic of arbitration as a...Read more
January 2007
Getting out the vote has a new meaning in the world of corporate proxies. The decision by the SEC in December to okay electronic...Read more
August 2011
With the world more globally interconnected than ever, even established companies can take an unexpected tumble and be forced into...Read more
March 2011
A resurgence in global activism looks to be on the cards after a somnolent couple of years during which the financial crisis rocked...Read more
April 2010
Canadian corporate secretaries, just like their US cohorts, must juggle a wide range of concerns on behalf of their company and its...Read more
March 2010
If the CFO of your company hasn’t got the word ‘escheat’ in his or her vocabulary, now is the time to flick through the dictionary and...Read more
January 2010
The judges noted that this category was among the most hotly contested, with the best horse proving hard to discern. At the ribbon,...Read more
‘The question is, is anybody reading it?’ says GE corporate and securities counsel Chris Pereira when asked how his team addressed the...Read more
October 2009
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is not a group often associated with controversy. In 2008, however, when FASB brought...Read more
April 2009
Getting a set of rules in place to govern shareholder communications is an arduous process at best. The conundrum arises wherever...Read more
March 2009
The Sanskrit word for truth is satyam, incidentally the name of the Hyderabad-based computer services company that imploded in January...Read more
January 2009
While times are dark for many of America’s workers and businesses, there is little doubt that pent-up demand will unfurl in due course...Read more
September 2008
Like the fabled flutter of a butterfly wing that can, in a series of stages, turn a light breeze into a violent whirlwind, a hushed...Read more
June 2008
Companies the world over are irked by the increasing number of national and industry regulatory bodies that need to be appeased and...Read more
May 2008
The way all public companies, financial institutions and the markets as a whole are policed could be about to undergo significant...Read more
March 2008
When credit markets dried up briefly in the summer of 2006 it caused significant ripples throughout the world’s financial system,...Read more
January 2008
As both economic and political spotlights shine across the corporate landscape in this highly charged election year, the 2008 proxy...Read more
November 2007
Surging compliance requirements are driving corporate general counsel to find better methods to improve management of their legal...Read more
October 2007
The crush of regulatory burdens coupled with increasing demand for much closer board supervision of daily company business activities...Read more
June 2007
The SEC had to do a bit of fire-fighting in late spring as a Wall Street Journal story smoked out the topic of arbitration as a...Read more
January 2007
Getting out the vote has a new meaning in the world of corporate proxies. The decision by the SEC in December to okay electronic...Read more