Sentences with phrase «governance by shareholders»

If you need to take over a company in order to remove bad management, what does that imply about the effectiveness of corporate oversight and governance by shareholders?

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The fight for Canadian Pacific Railway by its largest shareholder, Pershing Square Capital Management, epitomizes a growing problem with public company governance.

«Today, after welcoming its new directors Ursula Burns and John Thain, the Board voted unanimously to move forward with the proposed investment by SoftBank and with governance changes that would strengthen its independence and ensure equality among all shareholders,» the board said in a statement to TechCrunch.

Other Governance highlights key governance issues, such as high CEO pay, being raised by the investor community that this report does not track but is of interest to many shaGovernance highlights key governance issues, such as high CEO pay, being raised by the investor community that this report does not track but is of interest to many shagovernance issues, such as high CEO pay, being raised by the investor community that this report does not track but is of interest to many shareholders.

We believe the corporate governance measures noted above demonstrate that our Board has embraced independence, and our shareholders have recognized the effectiveness of our current Board leadership structure by re-electing our Chairman, the Lead Independent Director, and other Board members each year.

Ms. Bloxham is also the author of the Governance chapter in The Investor Relations Guide (published by Kennedy publications) and the Board chapter in Business Valuation Resource's Guide to Healthcare Valuation and the author / co-author of over 100 articles published by, among others Corporate Board Member, Directors Monthly, Directorship Magazine, International Finance and Treasury, Bank Accounting and Finance, American Banker, National Underwriter, Valuation Issues, Shareholder Value Magazine, CFO Magazine, Corporate Finance Review, the Wharton Leadership Digest, the Journal of Strategic Performance Measurement, Executive Talent, and the Journal of Cost Management.

Shareholder Proposals on Information Requests Only Shareholder proposals have rightly played an important role in prodding companies both to adopt governance measures and to disclose campaign spending, often following a model developed by the Center for Political Accountability.

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.

Si2 provides overview reports on the main environmental, social and governance issues raised by activist shareholders in their proposals to companies, as well as impartial breakout reports on the proposals awaiting votes at companies.

The new shareholder proposal, which has been put forth by the B.C. Government and Service Employees» Union general fund, is being presented as a way to improve corporate governance and increase shareholder value.

The appointments to these newly created positions are designed to better serve customer needs and are reflective of the rapidly changing corporate governance landscape — from one of interactions driven primarily by shareholder voting to an era of broad, year - round engagement.

Because CTK confer no governance rights or shareholder voting rights of any kind with respect to the CRYPTYK platform or the Company, all decisions involving the Company's products or services within the platform or the Company itself will be made by the Company at its sole discretion.

«The Board voted unanimously to move forward with the proposed investment by SoftBank and with governance changes that would strengthen its independence and ensure equality among all shareholders,» Uber's board said in a statement.

Even a # 1 million shareholding does not hold sway with executives who ignored a rebellion by 36 % of shareholders to make their Chief Executive also Chairman in contravention of good corporate governance practices in 2005.

The newspaper quotes Redwood as saying: «If they don't understand that now they will find those of us organising the «get out» campaign will then make life difficult for them by making sure that their customers, their employees and their shareholders who disagree with them - and there will be a lot who disagree with them - will be expressing their views very forcefully and will be destablising their corporate governance.»

«Capitalist firms are not Boy Scouts, and they are unlikely to place moral codes and «good governance» above the interests and demands of their owners or shareholders,» according to a paper published last year by researchers at the International Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands.

Lead the Company to embrace best practices in corporate governance and remove shareholder unfriendly By - laws.

Target and Pershing Square now have the opportunity to proactively provide good corporate governance to the Target shareholders by making it convenient for them to make a choice in what, in the end, is their election.

The paper seeks to explain how activist investment strategies create shareholder value and improve corporate governance by resolving conflicts of interest between shareholders, directors and management.

Examples of the lack of good corporate governance that are blatantly hostile to shareholders abound and include: (i) the retention of a staggered board, (ii) the adoption of a poison pill without shareholder approval and at the extremely low trigger of 10 %, and (iii) the refusal by the Board to allow shareholders to vote on whether our offer was sufficient.

The phrase «good corporate governance» is at best meaningless, and at worst a smoke screen to obfuscate what it really is: an attempt by management to operate on behalf of «stakeholders» (read «parties other than shareholders»), to adhere to the «triple bottom line,» «The Equator Principles,» and other similar ideas irrelevant to shareholders.

May 22, 2009 Wintergreen Advisers welcomes new, independent directors to the board of Consolidated - Tomoka Land Co. & urges implementation of corporate governance changes supported by shareholders.

The authors also conclude that, besides establishing how much shareholder value is generated by increasing shareholder rights and improving corporate governance inside firms, shareholder activism can create significant value:

Adopting one governance proposal increases shareholder value by 2.8 %.

So we remain very much encouraged by what we see in Japan in terms of corporate governance and the ability of these companies to continue to payout shareholder returns in the form of dividends — higher dividends — and share buybacks.

However, if the Governance Committee determined that it would be in the best interests of the Trust to fill a vacancy on the Board of Trustees, and a shareholder submitted a candidate for consideration by the Board of Trustees to fill the vacancy, the Governance Committee would evaluate that candidate in the same manner as it evaluates nominees identified by the Governance Committee.

Our expertise includes advising officers, boards of directors, shareholders, and special litigation committees on a wide range of business disputes, including fiduciary duties, employment issues with minority and majority shareholders, executive compensation, corporate freeze - outs, direct and derivative claims by shareholders, internal investigations and other aspects of corporate governance.

The proposed EU Shareholder Rights Directive has the objective to overcome certain corporate governance short comings in European listed companies and to encourage a more long - term oriented investment process and active engagement by institutional investors and asset managers.

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About Blog The Cleary M&A and Corporate Governance Watch is published by Cleary Gottlieb's M&A and Corporate Governance practice groups to provide updates and insights on M&A and corporate governance matters, including developments in shareholder activism, corporate law and deal structuring as well as trends in the drafting of M&A aGovernance Watch is published by Cleary Gottlieb's M&A and Corporate Governance practice groups to provide updates and insights on M&A and corporate governance matters, including developments in shareholder activism, corporate law and deal structuring as well as trends in the drafting of M&A aGovernance practice groups to provide updates and insights on M&A and corporate governance matters, including developments in shareholder activism, corporate law and deal structuring as well as trends in the drafting of M&A agovernance matters, including developments in shareholder activism, corporate law and deal structuring as well as trends in the drafting of M&A agreements.