This blog post originally appeared as an article in Profiles In Diversity Journal.
On September 30, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 979 (AB 979), an act that promises to greatly increase the diversity of the board of directors of a number of California-based publicly-traded corporations.
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The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has impacted publicly traded companies that have to provide information to trading markets, shareholders and to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a number of ways. The SEC has been particularly active in acknowledging the challenges that the outbreak poses to such companies and has provided conditional relief and has issued guidance as the outbreak has developed. The SEC Enforcement Division is also on high alert for COVID-19 scams.
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