Sentences with phrase «shareholder activists»
Shareholder activists are individuals or groups of people who own shares in a company and use their influence to push for changes or improvements. They may express concerns about a company's management, environmental impact, social responsibility, or other issues. By advocating for their views, shareholder activists aim to drive positive changes within the company they have invested in. Full definition
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Mitchell's argument is supported by empirical studies finding that it is difficult to establish a causal relationship between improved firm performance, if any, and business strategy changes effected at companies targeted by shareholder activists.
Or, should they remain invested in these companies to influence their policies as shareholder activists?»
About Blog As a leading shareholder activist, Carl Icahn's efforts have unlocked billions of dollars of shareholder and bondholder value and have improved the competitiveness of American companies.
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Apple chief executive Tim Cook is scheduled to meet with shareholder activist Carl Icahn on Monday in New York City, according to a report.
Yahoo had to deal with some nasty shareholder activist campaigns, and several readers asked about your thoughts on activism.
Barnes & Noble Inc., put itself up for sale Tuesday, succumbing to pressure from shareholder activists as digital books erode the traditional business of the nation's largest bookstore chain.
Roepers applies a differentiated constructive shareholder activist (CSA) investment approach to unlock incremental value in high - quality, undervalued companies in the consumer, industrials and businesses services sectors.
Sister Nora Nash, representing faith - based groups in the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, and a well - known shareholder activist in the area of corporate governance, withdrew a proposal asking the bank to produce a report on risk management after management agreed to work with the group.
Dell Inc. saw its stock jump 1.26 % in midday trading on Monday after the company reached an agreement to let shareholder activist Carl Icahn see its books.
Shareholder activists such as hedge funds typically are pursuing short - term financial gain at the expense of long - term shareholders and stakeholders.
Two common moves shareholder activists push for are break - ups and share buybacks, even if companies have to borrow to do it.
Separately, count shareholder activist Dan Loeb this morning as a sore winner.
Nooyi, only the fifth person to run PepsiCo and a dark - horse choice — a woman, a foreigner, a onetime strategy consultant — has outlasted all but one of her predecessors and, at least for now, a powerful shareholder activist.
We've written a lot in CEO Daily about shareholder activists.
April 7, 2016 - Climate Change 2016: As Proxy Season Arrives, Shareholder Activists File Record Number Of Environmental Resolutions - International Business Times
Only shareholder activist Ralph Whitworth wasn't on the board when HP authorized Apotheker to buy Autonomy in August 2011.
Morrow Sodali provides corporate boards and executives with strategic advice and services relating to a broad range of activities, including: mergers and acquisitions, annual and special meetings, shareholder activist initiatives, multinational cross-border equity transactions and debt restructuring services.
Shareholder activists say they shake up companies by bringing in new, better ideas.
The bottom line is that Nelson Peltz, perhaps the most prolific and successful food and restaurant shareholder activist of all time, may have trimmed his exposure in this sector, but he's likely only easing off the trigger as opposed to removing the ammo from the gun.
In this case, Wachtell's bylaw could chill shareholder activist activity by making it harder to obtain qualified director nominees.
Signed by the leading deal lawyer Martin Lipton and seven other Wachtell partners, the memo proposes that company boards consider adopting a bylaw prohibiting shareholder activists from compensating director nominees.
INVESTMENT PHILOSOPHY Pickens is an oilman and shareholder activist who in later years has become a hedge - fund manager.
Shareholder activist Nell Minow says companies shouldn't use the poison put if their object is to disenfranchise stockholders:
Whether it's Google's denunciation of ALEC or Tim Cook's defense of Apples renewables investments in the face of anti-renewables shareholder activists, business leaders are already flexing their muscles when it comes to climate politics.
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Klien and Zur define an entrepreneurial shareholder activist as «an investor who buys a large stake in a publicly held corporation with the intention to bring about change and thereby realize a profit on the investment,» which seems quite broad.
Roepers applies a differentiated constructive shareholder activist (CSA)-LSB-...]
Partner Sharon Geraghty has been included in Canadian Lawyer Magazine's January 2018 digital edition discussing how businesses can best deal with shareholder activists.
We combed through thousands of pages of documents — proxy statements, annual reports, news accounts — and interviewed dozens of shareholder activists, investment groups and corporate governance experts over the last four months.
On the prevention front, it's also wise to keep an eye out for proxy battles from shareholder activists, says Mason.
In recent years, other companies targeted by shareholder activists have promised to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase investments in renewable energy, use more sustainable ingredients and packaging, or hold discussions on implementing take - back policies for electronics recycling.
The hottest topic in many corporate boardrooms today is shareholder activism — or more specifically, the vulnerability of becoming the target of a shareholder activist and what to do about it.
According to a new tally of the proxy vote, the vote to put the shareholder activist on the chemical giant's board was very close.
Long - simmering hostility between Dow Chemical Co. and Daniel Loeb reached a boiling point over the weekend, with the shareholder activist calling for the removal of Chief Executive Andrew Liveris in the wake of the company's agreement to merge with DuPont Co..
The attempted raids on McDonalds and other companies in recent years provide object lessons in this destructive financial policy of «shareholder activists.»
excerpt: «After being pestered for years by shareholder activists, Exxon has agreed to produce a public document on its «carbon asset risk.»
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The net effect was to halt for an indeterminate period a shareholder activist campaign by Related and Corvex.