David Bell: Fenwick's 2021 Corporate Governance Survey

Welcome to the Boardroom Governance Podcast. I’m your host, Evan Epstein. In this episode, I talk with David Bell, a partner at Fenwick & West and the co-chair of the firm’s corporate governance practice. David advises startups and other growing private and public companies on VC financings, M&A, IPOs and IP licensing. He also counsels public companies on corporate, securities, governance and compliance matters. David is the author of Fenwick’s corporate governance, proxy season results and gender diversity surveys, which cover a variety of corporate governance matters and trends for the high tech and life science companies based in Silicon Valley. In this podcast, we talk about Fenwick’s 2021 Corporate Governance Survey, a comparison of large public companies and Silicon Valley public companies. We dive into some of its distinctions, including boardroom diversity, dual-class and multi-class share structures, staggered boards, majority voting, IPOs and other corporate governance matters including some specific distinctions with private venture-backed companies. If you like this show, please consider subscribing, leaving a review or sharing this podcast on social media. You can find all the show notes on the website boardroom-governance.com and please feel free to subscribe to the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at evanepstein.substack.com