Sentences with phrase «of shareholder activism»
Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism Jeff Gramm HarperBusiness, 2016
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The recent experiences of Solocal provide us with a good opportunity to consider the effects of shareholder activism at French listed companies.
Nevertheless, as Bloomberg reported, Ackman is pushing the limits of shareholder activism by aggressively and openly pushing CP's board to hire Harrison because the company already has a leader in place and there appears to be limited boardroom support for a management shakeup.
«Paul is the final decision maker on lots of these issues, but Jesse is the guy, and everyone in the activist community knows who he is,» says Marc Weingarten, a partner and cochair of the shareholder activism group at law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel who has represented Elliott.
If banks are telling companies to make the governance and shareholder - value improvements that activists would have recommended, in order to fend off activists, then that seems like another positive result of shareholder activism.
Navigant Consulting recently undertook a review of the most basic form of shareholder activism — Rule 14a - 8 proposals — and found no evidence that it resulted in either short - or long - term increases in market value.
Among the topics on the agenda: the evolution of shareholder activism and research findings about activist funds» returns, the amended Shareholder Rights Directive (EU) 2017/828, litigation and its effectiveness as tool for activist investors, and what can an issuer do to adequately address activists» new challenges.
All six agreed to add specific wording, and the fund withdrew the proposals, said Mari Schwartzer, assistant director of shareholder activism, engagement and social research at the fund.
Robert McCormick, chief policy officer at Glass Lewis & Co., talks about the impact of shareholder activism on corporate governance.
Many describe him as a ruthless corporate raider, while he likes to describe himself as a proponent of shareholder activism.
US: Well, obviously this is the home of shareholder activism — there are far too many activist hedge funds to list!
I am not familiar with Zamano but I just wanted to pick your brain on this type of shareholder activism.
Representing 69 of the UK's 89 local authorities, LAPFF had a record of shareholder activism.
In this BU Law podcast, host David Yas, a BU Law alum, former publisher of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly and a V.P. at Bernstein Global Wealth, welcomes David H. Webber, associate professor of law at BU Law, to talk about his interesting research in the area of shareholder activism and his paper «The Plight of the...
The stagnation and bear market of the 1970s contributed to the rise of shareholder activism, a trend immortalized in the 1980s by the fictional corporate raider Gordon Gekko in the movie «Wall Street.»
The venture started in September 2016 with an interview with Jeff Gramm, a friend in the finance industry who had just released a book on the rise of shareholder activism.
I've thought about this problem before, but always thought it was more of a curiosity until I read this on page 66 of Jeff Gramm's very good book, Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism.
His recently published book, Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism, was named one of the best books of 2016 by the Financial Times.