Practical Law
International Governance: Serving as a Global Director
November 2014
The globalization of business operations and investments has broadened opportunities for US citizens to serve on boards of directors of foreign companies, as well as on boards of domestic companies that have a majority of their assets and operations outside of the US. These opportunities are broadening as US companies reincorporate overseas, including through tax-driven inversions, and as foreign companies seek to tap into the market of accomplished female US business executives to help satisfy diversity quotas and targets.
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