arm's length
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The company was still scrambling Thursday to explain the deal for a tool to identify and track foreigners on US soil, which it says was signed by an arm's-length subsidiary set up to bid on classified US government work, with limited oversight from HQ in France.
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They have no good options, but a shift to an arm’s-length relationship is likely to make for a less pleasant business environment for U.S. companies operating overseas.
Disclosure rules similarly make anonymous trading and arm’s-length shareholding safe.
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Yet CEOs have a fiduciary duty to conceal strategic information that could tip off competitors from arm’s-length shareholders.
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Arm’s-length stockholders who trust markets mistrust managers.
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