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At CenterPoint, the company president, Paul S. Fisher, said he was relieved to be free of the requirements of being a public company, including the more stringent accounting practices imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which he described as a distraction and that as a public company, CenterPoint had to disclose information before a transaction was completed, giving its competitors an advantage. In addition, he said that he and Michael M. Mullen, the chief executive, had to spend too much of their time explaining their business to Wall Street.