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What’s the model? Have your cake and eat it.”These were the handwritten notes of a Conservative Party aide captured by a sharp-eyed photographer as the aide left a meeting at the UK Department for Exiting the EU. 
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Corporate boards can resist takeovers, for example, by issuing poison pills. In some cases, they use it to negotiate a higher takeover premium and sell the firm, and in others, they protect their private benefits of control and block takeovers that would otherwise create shareholder value.
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Kathryn Marinello will become the new president and CEO of Hertz Global Holdings, effective Jan. 3.
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Canada’s crowdfunding industry is “punching below its weight” compared to international markets, says a new industry report, which blames in part the country’s varied regulations for the alternative investing model.
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Martin Lipton and Ira Millstein make for entertaining comparisons. Long time sparring partners, each approaches issues of corporate governance
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Delaware is well established as the single most influential state in corporate America. Its prominence persists as the Delaware Court of Chancery continues to be the center for stockholder litigation against corporate fiduciaries.
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Shareholder activism remains a major force in corporate decision-making in 2016 but is increasingly operating in an environment of robust, multi-faceted shareholder engagement, particularly at large companies
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Swiss watchmaker Richemont is joining a rare group of companies operating without a single top boss. Some followers of the trend, rely on committees and consensus to govern themselves. Yet leading by consensus can be frustrating at times, and one bossless experiment failed completely.
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ICGN publishes guidance on diversity that looks beyond gender.
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Far from a corporate buzzword, information governance has become a critical part of business operations for any size company. Who should be in charge of it?
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The European Union has reached agreement on shareholders' rights to vote on a company's pay policy.
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Investors shouldn’t be surprised to see executive changes at Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc.
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Washington D.C., Dec. 12, 2016 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two New Jersey-based traders with manipulating more than 2,000 NYSE- and NASDAQ-traded stocks and reaping more than $26 million in profits from their successful trades.
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Drag-along rights, or drag rights, which give the majority owner of a company the right to force minority owners to participate in a sale of the company, can be a fiercely negotiated provision in a company’s governing documents.
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Washington D.C., Dec. 14, 2016 — The Securities and Exchange Commission voted today to approve the 2017 budget of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and the related annual accounting support fee.
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Rated 0.0/5: Buy The Activist Director: Lessons from the Boardroom and the Future of the Corporation (Columbia Business School Publishing) by Ira M. Millstein: ISBN: 9780231181341 : Amazon.com ✓ 1 day delivery for Prime members
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There was just one new initial public offering on the TSX in 2016. The IPO will return eventually, but will it be enough to undo the damage?
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First proxy access use not the best test case but doesn't point to major defects in bylaws adopted at most companies, which do need amendment to work.
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Both the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the National Futures Association (NFA), the self-regulatory organization for the US derivatives industry, have signaled their expectation—now nearly four years after swap dealers first became provisionally registered—that firms have had sufficient time to implement fully the CFTC’s swap regulations. This post updates recent changes in NFA’s approval process, provides a status report on NFA’s current examination schedule and previews what changes swap dealers may expect in future NFA examinations.
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Companies hoping to boost financial performance and solve the gender pay gap could solve those issues all at once by hiring a woman leader.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) is expected to elevate David Solomon and Harvey Schwartz to be top lieutenants to Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Tuesday citing people familiar with the matter.
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Throughout this ten-part series, I’m looking at the life and times of Carl Icahn, how he started on Wall Street, his mos
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It's human nature to have a fear of missing out. But chasing strong returns can spell disaster for investors, especially in a market like the TSX, which is heavily skewed toward energy and materials.
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Global Proxy Watch (GPW) reports that Scott Zdrazil has joined the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association after a year’s stint with the New York City Comptroller’s corporate governance office (GPW XIX-19). The latter seeks a replacement. Director of Corporate Engagement: Job Vacancy Notice Director of Corporate Engagement: Job Description The Bureau of Asset Management …
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