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The system for tracking share ownership and control is so tangled it's easy to overlook a mistake.
If investors hoped the biggest oil bust in decades would change the way oil industry executives are getting paid, they are probably disappointed.
Ottawa is pushing Bombardier's founding family to loosen control of the aerospace company and issue $1 billion in new stock, sources say.
Hansell McLaughlin Advisory will combine Carol Hansell’s legal background with the government relations expertise of Ron McLaughlin in partnership with veteran communications specialists Peter Block and David Scott
Why companies need directors with technological expertise.
The rise of shareholder activism has become a global phenomenon. Shareholder activists are not only present–as they started–in the US, but also in European and Asian Markets.[1] This situation has generated a vast literature about the desirability (or not) of shareholder activism.
The number of appraisal petitions has increased from a trickle of cases in early 2000s to over 20 a year in recent years, or close to one-quarter of all transactions where appraisal is possible, or appraisal eligible deals. After years of being infrequently deployed and largely overshadowed by shareholder class actions in Delaware and other states, the contours of the appraisal remedy are suddenly front page news as some Wall Street law firms seek to cut back on appraisal arbitrage filings.
JPMorgan Chase JPM Vote AGAINST pay, compensation committee. Vote FOR all shareholder proposals, some of which are quite creative.
Valeant vowed two weeks ago in a U.S. Sentate hearing to look into allegations that hospitals weren't receiving discounts on its expensive heart drugs, but so far little has happened
MONTREAL – Engineering giant SNC-Lavalin said Tuesday it wants to turn the page on its checkered past by making restitution to municipalities and other public bodies in Quebec for obtaining contracts through questionable means.
Innovation is being driven by crowdfunding, not venture capitalists.
Bill Ackman parts ways with man who introduced him to Valeant
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This article discusses the results of the first empirical study providing evidence of regulatory “chilling effects” of Wikipedia users associated with online go
After terminating deals with AstraZeneca and most recently, Allergan, Pfizer has turned to relatively smaller biotech companies for acquisitions.
Mr. Peltz of Trian Fund walks away with a 50 percent return, while Pepsi’s chief keeps the company together.
The collapse this week of Staples Inc.’s merger with Office Depot Inc. may be a blow to the image of Starboard Value LP, but not so much to its wallet.
In his annual letter to shareholders for 2014, Jamie Dimon, J.P. Morgan’s CEO, made an astonishing revelation. That year alone, his firm hired 8,000 new employees just to improve its compliance with anti-money laundering laws.
Apple is betting $1 billion on China’s homegrown competitor to Uber, marking the technology giant’s largest investment in a critical market at a time when its global fortunes are flagging.
Shareholders at Consol Energy Inc. approved a corporate governance proposal Wednesday that could give them a bigger say in who serves on the company's boar
Hedge fund investors held on in April despite a weak first quarter in which funds lost 0.63 percent, according to SS&C GlobeOp data, although other data providers reported big outflows in the first three months of the year.
Nissan Motor Co. on Thursday said it would bet more than $2 billion that Mitsubishi Motors Corp. can recover from a scandal involving falsified fuel-economy data.
Adidas (ADSGn.DE) shareholders elected Egyptian tycoon Nassef Sawiris and a representative of Belgium's richest man Albert Frere to the supervisory board on Thursday after both took significant stakes in the German sportswear group.
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