Sentences with phrase «of early shareholders»

Jeremy Tobias - Tarsh was the commercial director and one of the early shareholders of Practical Law, until they were acquired by Thomson Reuters.

A number of early shareholders tendered their shares, and Industry Ventures acquired a meaningful position in the company.

Not exact matches

Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

As proxy season gets underway, some early, behind the scenes discussions between shareholders and companies are exhibiting a welcome break from the past: a new tone of respect.

Return on average common equity (ROE), a measure of how well the bank uses shareholder money to generate profit, was 6.4 % in the quarter, down from 14.7 % a year earlier.

Shareholders will now have one vote per share, ending a class of supervoting shares in a move that substantially decreases the power of Kalanick and some other early investors.

Einhorn, fund manager for Greenlight Capital, accused Apple of cash hoarding earlier last week and is encouraging shareholders to vote against Apple's proxy because he thinks proposition two will kill the option of Apple issuing preferred stock.

At Warren Buffett's annual Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a) shareholders meeting in early May, the investor wistfully expressed his regret for missing out on the booming growth of America's biggest companies, particularly Google and Amazon.

Whole Foods hired the advisory firm Evercore Partners earlier this year to defend itself from pressure by activist shareholder Jana Partners, which announced in April it had amassed an 8.3 percent stake and pushed for changes to the Whole Foods board of directors.

(Earlier Chainsaw rid himself of a class - action shareholder suit for $ 15 million, without admitting culpability.)

The power behind Fink's threat to enforce his views hinges, in part, on the standard of one share, one vote — that shareholders» voting power is based on the number of shares they own in a given company rather than the votes of entrenched founders or early investors.

«Today's action by the board was the culmination of a blatant bait and switch, essentially robbing loyal employees, including the more than 200 early founding Uber employees and advisors, of their hard earned shareholder rights worth billions in value,» they said.

Chen made the announcement at the end of last year, explaining that he was working with an unnamed Hong Kong financier and due to meet with a «leading shareholder» in New York in early 2014 to discuss a deal.

But with the shareholder rights plan quashed, Rio Tinto boosted its stake to 51 % earlier this year, killing the chances of a big payday.

The retailer said Thursday it earned a profit attributable to shareholders of $ 275.7 million or $ 4.10 per diluted share, compared to $ 246.8 million or $ 3.46 per diluted share in the same quarter a year earlier.

J.Crew's annual proxy filing with the SEC, early this year (April 19), has several clues that could have sounded the alarm bells to shareholders, presaging the recent lapses of governance at J.Crew.

The entire deal has to be approved by Euronews shareholders by the end of this month, with completion expected by the end of March or early April, the source added.

ISS is expected to publish its view on whether Michael Dell's offer, which is backed by equity financing from buyout firm Silver Lake, is in the interest of Dell's shareholders as early as next week.

Ever since Dell, who has a 16 percent stake in the company, earlier this year made it known he wanted to take the company private he has faced shareholder backlash spurred by the price of the buyout.

Earlier this week, the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment was reported to be considering an investigation of a potential Broadcom takeover of Qualcomm, which prompted Qualcomm to a shareholder meeting until April.

Actelion's shareholders can monetize their holdings in Actelion at a highly attractive cash price of $ 280 per share, while at the same time retaining a significant stake in the future potential upside of Actelion's earlier stage pipeline, through their ownership of R&D NewCo.

This would include efforts at the earliest practicable time toward encouragement and negotiation with Class B shareholders to request that they relinquish, for the common good of all shareholders, any preexisting rights.

Cook said at the company's annual shareholder meeting earlier this week that the public won't ever be allowed to see the inside without an Apple badge, and authorities have been called for at least one trespassing complaint in the early days of the new headquarters, according to the records.

«An attentive investor, I'm embarrassed to report, would have sold Tesco shares earlier,» Buffett wrote in his annual letter to shareholders of Omaha, Nebraska - based Berkshire, which was published Saturday.

The five shareholders who demanded Mr. Kalanick's resignation include some of the technology industry's most prestigious venture capital firms, which invested in Uber at an early stage of the company's life, as well as a mutual fund firm.

Shareholders of both companies approved that deal earlier this year, and company leaders expect it to close in the second half of 2018.

Just think of Nortel Networks shareholders who watched their stock's value plummet from over $ 100 a share in early 2000 to less than $ 2.

Another big shareholder of the microblog service is Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, which invested $ 586 million for an 18 % stake in Weibo one year earlier.

Issued in response to pressure from institutional investors, the statement in effect revised the Roundtable's earlier position that «the shareholder must receive a good return but the legitimate concerns of other constituencies also must have the appropriate attention.»

In presentations promoting the deal, Ackman praised Valeant for its shareholder - friendly capital allocation, its shareholder - aligned executive compensation, and its avoidance of risky early - stage research.

Since 2006 (the first year in the ProxyMonitor.org database), the three most frequent sponsors of shareholder proposals at Fortune 250 companies have been corporate gadflies: John Chevedden (including, in earlier years, his family trust and now - deceased father, Ray); William Steiner (and son, Kenneth); and Evelyn Davis.

After four decades of shareholder advocacy, we are bolstered in the knowledge that as the field of corporate social responsibility which ICCR members helped to promote in the early 1970s continues to evolve, so does the work of our growing coalition of active shareowners as they refine their methodology and design newer and more effective models for corporate engagement.

«We are never going to do something that is bad for CBS shareholders,» he told investors at a Bank of America Merrill Lynch investor conference earlier this month, adding that the two companies were not «in active discussions.»

Legislative suspicion of the corporate form and fear of the concentrated economic power it represented probably motivated the early efforts to limit shareholder voting rights.

Peck wrote in a report earlier this month that unless Mayer has the support of senior executives, employees, partners, and investors, then «a seamless transition to new leadership could be in the best interest of the company and shareholders.»

Notice of any proposal that a shareholder intends to present at the 2015 annual meeting of shareholders, but does not intend to have included in the Company's proxy statement and form of proxy relating to the 2015 annual meeting of shareholders, as well as any director nominations, must be delivered to the Company's Secretary by mail at 1 Infinite Loop, MS: 301 - 4GC, Cupertino, California 95014, or by email at [email protected], not earlier than the close of business on October 31, 2014 and not later than the close of business on November 30, 2014.

On a call with shareholders in February 2015, Lyndon delayed the timeline: The factory, he indicated, would now be built and ready for equipment by early 2016 (while that one - gigawatt production target wouldn't be reached until the first quarter of 2017).

It was the Code of Business Conduct And Ethics that the company used to find Kazuo Okada — an early investor and formerly the largest single shareholder of Wynn Resorts — unsuitable to be a shareholder in the company, which ultimately led to not only his ouster from the Board of Directors but Wynn Resorts redeeming his shares.

In early January, the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) published regulations that limit the number of commercial banks in which each investor can own holdings, which is intended to reduce specific cases of «disorder» in the banking sector, such as the abuse of rights by major shareholders and the existence of «invisible shareholders».

One thing is for certain however, an early shot has been fired across the bow of UK boards: Pay remains a highly contentious issue, and one which shareholders are willing to provide management with bloody noses and public embarrassment over.

It is too early to assess the full extent of the fallout from these latest shareholder rebellions; however, while the proposals were put to shareholders on an advisory basis, it is clear that remuneration structures and levels of pay continue to be areas under intense scrutiny from both investors and the general public, and have the ability to cause a level of discomfort for board members through major PR hiccups.

Second, shareholders voting by proxy will be given the relatively unusual opportunity to vote on director candidates individually thanks to an early request for cumulative voting submitted well before the deadline of 48 hours prior to the meeting.

He has over 19 years of experience working with early - stage companies, particularly in the technology field, concentrating his practice on corporate formation and structure, joint ventures, licensing, intellectual property protection, corporate governance, shareholder agreements, employee incentive plans, securities laws and private placements.

Magna International Inc. chairman Mike Harris received only a minority of shareholder support for his re-election earlier this year but remained on the company's board, according to new disclosure prompted by a rare shareholder lawsuit.

But in early 2016 Wesfarmers had a great history of building wealth for shareholders — an investment in the company's shares in 2000 returned nearly 17 % per year while the Australian market, including dividends, returned 8 % a year over the same period.

Earlier, the companies said Kraft shareholders will receive stock in the combined company and a special cash dividend of $ 16.50 per share, financed by a $ 10 billion investment from private equity firm 3G Capital and Berkshire Hathaway.

One of the ways to intuitively appreciate how extra value is created by the exit transaction is to extend a more familiar concept about how shareholder value increases earlier in the company lifecycle.

Mining equipment company Emeco Holdings is expected to be cap in hand in front of shareholders as early as Monday, seeking backing for a new acquisition.

Speculation the takeover would not be completed has been fired up by a series of setbacks, including early concerns about capital gains tax owed to the government of Sierra Leone by Sierra Rutile shareholders, an extended review by German anti-trust regulators, and then last week the revelation of «geotechnical risks» at the target's tailings dams.

After saying in a speech at the University of Delaware on October 30 that the independent directors of corporate boards should create «shareholder relations committees» to exchange information with Vanguard, he told the Financial Times in early December that he will propose his plan in letters to those corporations.