Board of Directors
  ·Declaration of Distributions
  ·Fiduciary Duties
  -Right to Pay
  -Liability for Unlawful Distributions/Dividends
  -Duty of Loyalty
  -Corporate Opportunity Doctrine
  ·Indemnification
  -Generally…except in a shareholder derivative suit
  (股东派生诉讼)
  -D&O insurance
  Officers
  ·Selection and Removal
  ·Authority(Actual / Apparent)
  ·Fiduciary Duties and Indemnification
  ·May also Serve as Directors
  ¨Good corporate governance-majority of the board should be independent
  ·Not required to be Shareholders
  Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002
  ·Regulation includes:
  -Title I/Title II/Title III/Title IV/Title VIII
  BEC only covers
  -Corporate Responsibility(Title III)
  -Enhanced Financial Disclosures(Title IV)
  -Fraud(Title VIII)
  Originally only for public companies,then become best practices for all companies
  Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002
  ·Background for Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002
  ·Caused by a series of frauds and scandals:
  Enron,Tyco,WorldCom,etc
  -Named after Senator Sarbanes and Rep.Oxley
  -Enacted on July 30,2002
  -11 titles for the Act
  ·Corporate Responsibility(Title III)
  ·Enhanced Financial Disclosures(Title IV)
  ·Fraud(Title VIII)