Michael W. Peregrine

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Michael W. Peregrine represents corporations (and their officers and directors) in connection with the full range of governance and fiduciary duty matters, officer-director liability issues, charitable trust law and corporate structure. Michael is recognized as one of the leading national practitioners in corporate governance law, and is a senior contributor to Forbes.com, where his articles focus on governance and leadership topics.

Michael is outside governance counsel to many prominent corporations, including hospitals and health systems, voluntary health organizations, colleges and universities, social service agencies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and financial institutions.

Clients seek Michael’s advice on matters relating to:

board conduct, composition and culture
risk oversight
executive and board leadership/succession
board performance evaluations and assessments; and
intra-board conflict and dysfunction.

Michael is also often called upon to advise boards in response to external/regulatory challenges to governance. He frequently serves as special counsel in connection with confidential internal board reviews and investigations.

Michael has particular expertise in providing advice on governance structures arising from mergers, acquisitions and other change-of-control transactions, and complex officer and director conflict of interest and code of conduct issues. Michael is the author of both editions of the monograph, Conflicts of Interest and the Non-Profit Board, published by The Governance Institute. He is nationally recognized for his expertise on matters of not-for-profit corporate law and related matters of public policy.

Michael is widely known as a thought leader in corporate governance. In addition to his regular Forbes.com posts, he authors regular columns on corporate governance-related topics for Agenda, CorporateCounsel.com, and publications of The Governance Institute and the American Health Law Association. He is a regular contributor on corporate governance topics to The New York Times’ “Deal Book” feature; Corporate Board Member, The Chronicle of Philanthropy; The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation; The Columbia Law School’s Blog on Corporations and the Capital Markets, the New York University School of Law Compliance and Enforcement Forum, Law360 and Becker’s CEO Report.

In addition to his regular publishing activity, Michael authors a quarterly update on corporate law and governance developments, produces a monthly podcast on corporate governance and leadership topics, and distributes regular client memoranda on governance-related developments. In these and other ways, Michael is one of the most widely followed of all national corporate governance advisors.

Michael is a co-author of the three corporate governance compliance white papers published jointly by the Office of Inspector General (Department of Health and Human Services) and the American Health Lawyers Association.

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