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Activist investor William Ackman has built a $5.5 billion stake in Mondelez and will argue the maker of Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers needs to cut costs and grow revenue, or sell to a rival like Kraft Heinz. 
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Georgeson, a proxy-solicitation firm, is being investigated by federal prosecutors as part of the government’s increased focus on the illegal trading of confidential company information.
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Washington D.C., Aug. 5, 2015 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted new rules to provide a comprehensive, efficient process for security-based swap dealers and major security-based swap participants to register with the SEC. The new rules mark a significant milestone in the SEC’s final implementation of Title VII of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
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A study co-authored by Johnson Assistant Professor of
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When we think of elections where voters have no choice and the winners are predetermined, we think of repressive dictatorships and not modern democratic Canada.
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What kind of activist campaigns tend to be successful? Here's the distilled wisdom of several fund managers.
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According to recent studies, the rate of successful shareholder activism is on the rise. While historically high when compared to the relative ownership percentage of those campaigning, new data from North America and Europe demonstrates a climbing success rate for activist campaigns.
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SAMSUNG pulled out the stops to woo investors in Samsung C&T, the group’s construction and trading division, ahead of a much-anticipated shareholders' meeting...
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For Samsung's Lee family, the merger of two affiliate companies was never expected to be anything but a formality: a straightforward step in a long-planned succession aimed at consolidating control of South Korea's biggest conglomerate in the hands of heir apparent Lee Jae-yong.
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Regulators are examining whether mutual-fund managers are dipping more deeply than allowed into their investors’ money to compensate the brokerages that distribute their products.
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The diverging fortunes of eBay’s online commerce business and its PayPal payments division were underlined on Thursday in the final quarterly results before the company splits in two. While PayPal’s revenues grew at 16 per cent in the second quarter,
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The Private Sector Council on Open Governance is seeking examples of corporate or business-oriented programs to promote better governance in countries and communities around the world. Continue reading →
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), the advocate for the profession of directorship, today announced that Dr. Karen Horn has been appointed to the position of vice chair of its board, and Sue W. Cole and Nicholas M. Donofrio have been elected as directors.
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A group of pension funds that has pushed companies to increase investors’ ability to choose board members is now taking issue with how companies have done it.
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The SEC announced it adopted rules at an open meeting on Aug. 5, 2015, regarding pay-ratio disclosure
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Dodd-Frank turns five years old next week and the occasion merits a review of its success.
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Executive Director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Kirk Hanson interviews Ned Barnholdt, chairman of KLA-Tencor and board member, eBay and Adobe. T...
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Defenses against activist hedge funds？ With no end in sight in Samsung C＆T′s row with U.S. hedge fund Elliott Management over its merger plans， Koreans are r...
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Under Section 953(a) of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer
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Despite the approval of an $8 billion merger of two Samsung affiliates by shareholders, some hope Elliott Associates’ activism can help improve corporate-governance standards in South Korea.
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European bailout funds should be used to directly recapitalize Greece’s financial system. That is bound to mean more controversy. -- Heard on the Street
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More investors are becoming concerned over a possible crisis brewing in the expanding world of exchange-traded bond funds.
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Boardlist says up to three quarters of private tech companies have no women on boards.
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