What’s going on with DExit?: A Corporate Governance Podcast

What’s going on with DExit? The latest edition of the corporate governance podcast gives a full rundown on the latest trend emerging in US corporate leadership.

Dan’s latest guest is Walker Newell, partner at Woodruff Sawyer, an insurance brokerage firm with a speciality in directors’ liability based in the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States. 

Walker and Dan unpack the essentials around DExit, an emerging trend in US business, which has seen significant and urgent shifts for corporate leaders in areas like judicial oversight of companies, shareholder influence and corporate activism. 

Walker explains what has motivated the DExit trend, how it may change and evolve over time, and how the phenomenon fits into a global balance between oversight and decision-making freedoms for corporate leaders.  

Walker Newell is a partner at legal firm Woodruff Sawyer which among other things, specialises in directors’ liability and corporate governance. 

Walker previously served as Senior Counsel in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement in San Francisco, where he led high-profile and groundbreaking matters. Walker also has years of experience advising and defending investment funds and advisers, public and private financial services and cryptocurrency companies, board members, founders, and senior executives as outside counsel with Cooley and Wilson Sonsini and as in-house counsel with Robinhood Markets (Nasdaq: HOOD).

Early in his career, Walker served as a law clerk on the US District Court for the Northern District of California and on the Alaska State Supreme Court. Walker earned his juris doctorate from Columbia Law School as a James Kent Scholar (high honours) and his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, San Diego. He is a member of the California Bar and holds the CIPP/US privacy law certification.

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