Governance & capital markets
Corporate governance and disclosure in public companies and reporting partnerships
Board decisions, reporting duties, interested-party transactions, crises and investor disputes in reporting corporations.
Entity and event classification
A public company, bond company and reporting partnership are not the same structure. Each event requires analysis under the Companies Law or Partnerships Ordinance according to the entity, the Securities Law and reporting regulations, constitutional documents and TASE rules applicable to the security and event.
The same transaction may require a corporate decision, special approval route and public report on three different timetables.
Governance and disclosure must work together
- Complete materials for the competent organ
- Personal-interest and conflict identification
- Resolution wording and reasons record
- Materiality and reporting-time analysis
- Monitoring of conditions, exceptions and completion
Handling a crisis
A financing, transaction, liquidity decline, investigation, reporting error or shareholder dispute may require rapid convening of the relevant decision-makers, advisers and officers, with a contemporaneous record. The appropriate structure depends on the event and the organs' authority.
Later correction of a minute error does not by itself cure a substantive defect in the decision, approval or disclosure. Authority, information, timing, approvals and disclosure must be managed together while preserving the corporation's ability to operate.
Sources and links
Selected sources for further reading on the law, record or process discussed on this page.
- Securities Law, 5728-1968Knesset - National Legislation Database
Reporting, inside information, fraud and reporting-corporation framework.
- Securities Regulations (Periodic and Immediate Reports), 5730-1970Israel Securities Authority
The periodic and immediate reporting framework for a reporting corporation.
- Companies Law, 5759-1999 - consolidated textIsrael Securities Authority
Incorporation, corporate organs, shares, officer duties and remedies.
- Partnerships Ordinance [New Version], 5735-1975Knesset - National Legislation Database
Partnership structure, partner relations and dissolution.