Sentences with phrase «activist shareholder group»

Despite heavy media and shareholder scrutiny of Yahoo's direction - activist shareholder group Starboard Value urged the comp...

The documents emerged from negotiations with several activist shareholder groups that had pressed Exxon Mobil to disclose to investors the risks it faces from climate change and steps the company was taking to reduce such risks.

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Last month, Dimon prevailed at the bank's annual meeting when only 32 percent of shareholders voted in favor of a proposal — backed by activist groups after the «London Whale» trading losses — to strip him of the chairmanship.

But ultimately the company faced unhappy shareholders, activist investors Barington Capital Group LP and partner NuOrion Partners AG, who were unrelenting for three years in criticizing Avon's umpteenth turnaround plan.

The decision comes as activist fund Elliott, which has built a potential holding of 5.7 percent in the former phone monopoly, has challenged the way TIM's biggest shareholder, France's Vivendi, manages the group.

Telecom Italia CEO Amos Genish said his position at Italy's biggest phone group would be «untenable» if activist fund Elliott manages to win the majority of board seats at a shareholder vote.

Lagardere shareholders reject activist demandsShareholders in Lagardere SCA (MMB.FR) voted Thursday against motions proposed by activist investor Amber Capital to change the group's corporate governance.

We combed through thousands of pages of documents — proxy statements, annual reports, news accounts — and interviewed dozens of shareholder activists, investment groups and corporate governance experts over the last four months.

The independent directors of Newell Brands on March 14 criticized the tactics of activist hedge fund Starboard Value and its allies, which are waging a proxy fight for control of the consumer - brands group, and urged shareholders to back management's turnaround plan.

French media group Vivendi and activist fund Elliott Advisors — respectively the largest and second - largest investors in Telecom Italia — are heading for a showdown at upcoming shareholder meetings scheduled for April 24 and May 4.

General Motors recently responded to an activist group with a plan to return cash to shareholders through share repurchase, and Lear had previously undertaken this action.

Against this backdrop, activist investment firm JCP Investment Management took up a significant minority stake in Fiesta over the past year, and JCP is now spearheading a shareholder group that is pushing for a boardroom shakeup.

Telecom Italia shareholders will decide whether the activist hedge fund Elliott Management has the power to revamp the board against controlling stakeholder, the French entertainment group Vivendi.

Major banks CBA and ANZ have urged the repeal of a law which allows activist investors, unions and environmental groups to pursue fringe causes by forcing companies to hold costly shareholder meetings.

Since last January, the Little Rock - based investment firm Stephens Group Inc., Huntingdon's largest shareholder, has been the target of activists, and Huntingdon's New Jersey lab has been the scene of protests, vandalism, and, in April, a nighttime raid that «liberated» 14 beagles.

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The activist, Jaguar Financial Corporation, says the group want a sale of the company as a whole or in parts, and the replacement of co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie, RIMM's two largest shareholders.

A small Canadian activist fund is leading a group of disgruntled shareholders in a campaign to break - up Research In Motion Limited (USA)(NASDAQ: RIMM).

In these instances in which a group effectively controls the company, there will be little noise from activist shareholders.

But we can't blame activists as a group for all the problems created by shareholder capitalism.

We combed through thousands of pages of documents — proxy statements, annual reports, news accounts — and interviewed dozens of shareholder activists, investment groups and corporate governance experts over the last four months.

The highly public nature of this opposition has caused numerous investor groups and shareholder activists to call on 17 different banks, including Wells Fargo and TD Securities, to divest from financing the pipeline.

In January, Shell made the unusual move of backing a climate proposal from a group of activist shareholders.

A partner in the firm's Corporate Transactions & Securities practice group, Bork focuses his practice on takeovers, control contests and activist shareholder matters; public company board and special committee matters; securities law; and public company reporting.

Media enquiries, regulatory or police investigations, sensitive litigation, operational issues, pressure groups, aggrieved customers, disaffected employees and activist shareholders can all put at risk the reputation of a business, its brands and its directors.

Nussbaum described the VEB shareholder group as a Ralph Nader - like activist organization and said it is using the Dutch courts to voice its concerns about the deal.