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T. Rowe Price Voted for the Dell Buyout by Accident

T. Rowe Price Voted for the Dell Buyout by Accident | Corporate governance - Vigil | Scoop.it
The system for tracking share ownership and control is so tangled it's easy to overlook a mistake.
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Oil Companies Are Still Paying Their CEOs to Pump

Oil Companies Are Still Paying Their CEOs to Pump | Corporate governance - Vigil | Scoop.it
If investors hoped the biggest oil bust in decades would change the way oil industry executives are getting paid, they are probably disappointed.
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Bombardier talks stall on $3-billion pitch that includes loosening the family's reins, sources say

Bombardier talks stall on $3-billion pitch that includes loosening the family's reins, sources say | Corporate governance - Vigil | Scoop.it
Ottawa is pushing Bombardier's founding family to loosen control of the aerospace company and issue $1 billion in new stock, sources say.
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Toronto corporate lawyer forms ‘first of its kind’ communications company

Toronto corporate lawyer forms ‘first of its kind’ communications company | Corporate governance - Vigil | Scoop.it
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
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Your Next Board Member Should Be a Geek

Why companies need directors with technological expertise.
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Corporate Secretary | Awards Corner: Who’s judging the Corporate Governance Awards?

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Shareholder Activists: A Threat for the Global Economy?

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.
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Reforming the Delaware Law to Address Appraisal Arbitrage

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.
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JPMorgan Chase: Proxy Score 47 - Corporate Governance

JPMorgan Chase JPM Vote AGAINST pay, compensation committee. Vote FOR all shareholder proposals, some of which are quite creative.
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Valeant promised discounts on drugs but U.S. heart hospitals are still waiting

Valeant promised discounts on drugs but U.S. heart hospitals are still waiting | Corporate governance - Vigil | Scoop.it
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
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SNC to reimburse Quebec municipalities, agencies over questionable contracts - NEWS 1130

SNC to reimburse Quebec municipalities, agencies over questionable contracts - NEWS 1130 | Corporate governance - Vigil | Scoop.it
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.
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How crowdfunding can help save Silicon Valley from its harebrained investors

Innovation is being driven by crowdfunding, not venture capitalists.
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Bill Ackman parts ways with man who introduced him to Valeant

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Bill Ackman parts ways with man who introduced him to Valeant
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Norwegian oil fund attacks VW corporate governance

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Chilling Effects: Online Surveillance and Wikipedia Use by Jon Penney :: SSRN

Chilling Effects: Online Surveillance and Wikipedia Use by Jon Penney :: SSRN | Corporate governance - Vigil | Scoop.it
This article discusses the results of the first empirical study providing evidence of regulatory “chilling effects” of Wikipedia users associated with online go
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Pfizer to Acquire Anacor Pharmaceuticals for $5.2 Billion

After terminating deals with AstraZeneca and most recently, Allergan, Pfizer has turned to relatively smaller biotech companies for acquisitions.
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Billionaire Investor Nelson Peltz Sells Stake in PepsiCo

Mr. Peltz of Trian Fund walks away with a 50 percent return, while Pepsi’s chief keeps the company together.
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Corporate Secretary | Are board refreshment policies improving?

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Starboard Avoids the Staples-Office Depot Shredder

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.
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Collaborative Gatekeepers

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.
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Apple Invests $1 Billion in Didi, Uber’s Rival in China

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.
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Consol shareholders vote for right to nominate board directors

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
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Hedge fund investors hold steady despite unsettled markets

Hedge fund investors hold steady despite unsettled markets | Corporate governance - Vigil | Scoop.it
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.
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Nissan to Take $2.2 Billion Stake in Scandal-Hit Mitsubishi Motors

Nissan to Take $2.2 Billion Stake in Scandal-Hit Mitsubishi Motors | Corporate governance - Vigil | Scoop.it
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.
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Adidas investors seek influence on supervisory board

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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