Sentences with phrase «other shareholders of these firms»

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Wealthy shareholder Gordon Gekko (played by Michael Douglas) addresses other stockholders at a shareholder meeting of the fictional firm Teldar Paper:

The firm's investigation seeks to determine, among other things, whether the Company's Board of Directors failed to satisfy their duties to shareholders, including whether the Board adequately pursued alternatives to the acquisition and whether the Board obtained the best price possible for the Company's shares of common stock.

Besides Mr. Drexler, major (5 % or greater) shareholders in the firm, as of the annual proxy in April, include FMR LLC (which includes the Fidelity Contrafund), Baron Capital Group, BlackRock, and T Rowe Price, all of whom voted in favor of the directors up for election as well as the other management proposals — and Columbia Wanger Asset Management (whose parent Ameriprise, did not return requests for information).

These proposals do not affect law firms as much as other businesses given the restrictions on who can be a shareholder of a law practice.

As manager of the firm's Corporate Governance Consulting Group with over 30 years of experience in the field, Bill has guided companies through a wide range of governance and takeover challenges, including contentious shareholder proposals and compensation - based initiatives, proxy contests, tender offers, and other corporate control matters.

See U.S. Gov» t Accountability Office, supra, at 15 («Recent studies, market participants, and other stakeholders agree that proxy advisory firms have influence on shareholder voting and corporate governance practices, but had mixed views about the extent of their influence.»).

Regulations proposed by the Texas State Legislature would mark a blow to shareholder rights, subjecting investors, proxy advisors and other shareholder support firms to unprecedented disclosure requirements, and potentially serving to reverse the recent expansion of proxy access.

Much like with «activist investors», the bill includes an extremely broad definition of proxy advisors, including any firm «that provides corporate governance ratings, proxy research, analyses, shareholder services, or other similar services to shareholders of publicly traded entity.»

Greenspan, the doyen of the neo-liberal banking structure, said in 2008 following the banking crisis that he had found a flaw in the «critical functioning structure that defines how the world works... I made a mistake in presuming that the self - interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms.»

Good to see: Vanguard heads list of Top Families with Largest Assets Under Management (AUM), along with other shareholder friendly firms, like Dodge & Cox.

* Entrepreneurial Shareholder Activism: Hedge Funds and Other Private Investors, which shows that the filing of a 13D notice by an activist hedge fund is a catalytic event for a firm that heralds substantial positive returns in the stock.

The Firm will submit a shareholder proposal on behalf of any other Discretionary Account only at the request of the Discretionary Account or with that Discretionary Account's prior written consent.

James, Potts & Wulfers, Inc. was formed in March 1994 by one senior shareholder of the firm and two former shareholders one of whom is now retired and the other of counsel.

In this video, Legal Week publisher John Malpas talks to Chris McKenzie, head of trusts and estate planning at BVI law firm O'Neal Webster, about the use of trusts and other techniques to deal with the disruption that can be caused by the death or incapacity of shareholders and directors of a private company.

Apparently, a woman partner's decision to spend time at the office instead of family earned her criticism from other firm shareholders, as reported in this article, Lawyer Sues Her Downtown Firm (11/11/firm shareholders, as reported in this article, Lawyer Sues Her Downtown Firm (11/11/Firm (11/11/06).

These proposals do not affect law firms as much as other businesses given the restrictions on who can be a shareholder of a law practice.

Mr. Budd, a shareholder of Baron & Budd since 1985 and president and managing shareholder since 2002, has expanded the firm from its cornerstone asbestos practice to a national firm capable of tackling the biggest defendants in areas as diverse as pharmaceutical and medical device injury, water contamination, BP Gulf oil spill, financial fraud and various other areas of practice.

Today, the next generation, represented by Michael and Katy Miller and the other shareholders, attorneys, and staff, maintain a tradition of responsibility to the individual client that sets the firm apart.

Today, the next generation, represented by Mike and Katy Miller and the other shareholders, attorneys, and staff, maintain a tradition of responsibility to the individual client that sets the firm apart.

Law firm Stephenson Harwood has advised Bowmark Capital LLP, and the other shareholders of Law Business Research (LBR), on the sale of LBR to Levine Leichtman Capital..

As part of a dispute over the ending of the claimant's directorship, his solicitors wrote a letter to the firm which included an allegation that the other directors were proposing to subject him to unfair prejudice as a fellow shareholder.

Those who bought stock in Slater & Gordon acknowledged and accepted that, unlike other businesses where «shareholder value» is (perversely, in my opinion) the only objective, investing in a law firm means accepting a much - reduced level of influence and importance.

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Other big holders of Spotify stock include the investing firms Tiger Global, TCV and the Chinese conglomerate Tencent (which is the only shareholder subject to a unique lock - up arrangement.)

«The term «principal,» as used in the NAR Constitution and Bylaws and in other relevant policies, includes licensed or certified individuals who are sole proprietors, partners in a partnership, officers or majority shareholders of a corporation, or office managers (including branch office managers) acting on behalf of principals of a real estate firm.»

Others are concerned that Chinese investors who didn't bail out of stocks quickly enough will be a drag on international property markets, particularly after Beijing on Thursday banned shareholders with large stakes in listed firms from selling for six months.