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Avoiding Enron: Counseling the Audit Committee
The Enron collapse and subsequent statements and rule proposals released by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have increased interest in the internal workings of corporate governance and, in particular, the functions of the audit committee of a company’s board of directors.
[July/August 2002]
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Employment Practices Liability Claims Give REITs
Another Insurance Terror
While insurance buyers at real estate companies have primarily focused their attention on the renewal of their property insurance programs.
[May/June 2002]
Crossing the Line
Neighboring states Delaware and Maryland are miles apart when it comes to laws affecting REITs
[January/February 2002]
Developments on Regulation FD
In adopting Regulation FD (Fair Disclosure), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) made a commitment to closely monitor the rule's impact on information flow.
[September/October 2001]
2001 REIT Tax Regulatory Agenda
Each of the four items NAREIT raised with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been included in the official "Business Plan" for 2001.
[July/August 2001]
REIT Dividends and Non-U.S. Investors
NAREIT's primary goals always have been government relations and investor outreach. These twin objectives often overlap, and never so more than in our efforts to remove impediments facing non-U.S. investors in REITs.
[March/April 2001]
Regulation Fair Disclosure: Walking the High Wire
Investor relations have been described as a fencing match conducted on a tightrope. In providing information to investors and analysts, corporate officers must carefully negotiate the "high wire" and provide full information while avoiding "selective disclosures," or disclosures of material nonpublic information to a select group rather than to the market as a whole.
[January/February 2001]
IRS Issues Reverse Exchange Guidance
Although the Real Estate industry's fundamentals are strong, with rising rents, increasing occupancies and minimal new construction, the public equity market has yet to show great interest in real estate.
[November/December 2000]
Look Before You Leap: Antitrust and REITs
There are several possible antitrust notification issues that a REIT must consider before acquiring voting securities (or adding to voting securities) in a Taxable REIT Subsidiary (TRS).
[September/October 2000]
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