Sentences with phrase «of shareholder democracy»

«A principle of shareholder democracy must take into account the interests of both majority and minority shareholders,» she says.

CCBE fully acknowledges the potential risk that an imbalance of economic interest and voting control presents to the core of shareholder democracy.

Not exact matches

Shareholder democracy activists should not get carried away by the arrival of proxy access proposals north of the border, according to a Toronto lawyer.

One funny aspect of American shareholder democracy is that normally only the board of directors nominates candidates for the board of directors.

But Mercer Bullard, professor of law at the University of Mississippi Law School and founder of Fund Democracy, an advocacy group for mutual fund shareholders, told ThinkAdvisor on Thursday that «the plaintiffs have hurt their cause by delaying» filing a suit until now.»

An imbalance of shares and votes may seem like an insurmountable obstacle to shareholder democracy.

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He has argued that failed banks should not be bailed out, Lehman's collapse was not a disaster, AIG should be declared bankrupt, that naked short selling is not a problem, that backdating isn't so bad, insider trading should be legal, many corporate CEOs are underpaid, global solutions are worse than local solutions, Warren Buffett is overrated, Michael Milken is a great American, the collapse of the hedge fund was not a scandal, hedge funds are over-regulated, education is overrated by the educated, bonuses at successful Wall Street's firms are deserved and possibly undersized, management buyouts are boons to the economy, Enron's management was victimized by an over-zealous prosecution, Sarbanes - Oxley should be repealed, corporate compliance culture is a disaster, shareholder democracy is overrated, hostile takeovers ought to be revived, the market is permanently moving away from public ownership of equity in corporations, private partnerships are on the rise, public ignorance is encouraged and manipulated by governments and corporations, experts overrate expertise, regulatory agencies are controlled by the businesses they supposedly regulate and Wall Street is much more fun than people give it credit for.

Improving democracy inside firms, so that shareholder proposals that fall short of the majority threshold pass, would be value - increasing.

Professor Mohamed F. Khimji, the David Allgood Professor of Business Law at Queen's University, has won a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Grant as principal investigator for the project Shareholder Democracy in Public Corporations — An Empirical and Economic Analysis.

Earlier this year, it began taking soundings on shareholder democracy issues, including proposals on whether to ban slate voting and mandate majority voting, which would ensure all directors are elected by a majority of voting shareholders, advisory votes on compensation, and the effectiveness of the proxy voting system.

Andrew MacDougall, a partner at Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, served as counsel to an Institute of Corporate Directors task force on shareholder democracy.

The entire shareholder democracy argument could be rendered moot, according to Sylvia Groves, unless something is done about the effectiveness of the proxy voting system itself, the third strand of the OSC's review.

CCGG Letter of Response to the OSC Staff Notice 54 - 701: Regulatory Developments Regarding Shareholder Democracy Issues