Shareholder Rights
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- It’s a Wonderful Lie: Mutual Fund Advocacy for Shareholders’ Rights, part 4
- It’s a Wonderful Lie: Mutual Fund Advocacy for Shareholders’ Rights, part 5
- It’s a Wonderful Lie: Mutual Fund Advocacy for Shareholders’ Rights, part 2
- A Chink in the Armor? Say on Pay
- A Comment from William H Clark, Author of the North Dakota Publicly Traded Corporations Act
- A Saturday Editorial: Shareholder Access, Open Markets, and Economic Logic
- A Victory for Access (Sort Of)
- AFSCME v. AIG: The Second Circuit and Rule 14a-8
- AFSCME, WaMu and the Withhold Campaign
- Access and Its Opponents: An Overview
- Access and Its Opponents: The Inevitability of Access
- Access and Its Opponents: The Ostensible Benefits of Private Ordering
- Access and Its Opponents: The Ostensible Evidence of Majority Voting Provisions
- Access and Its Opponents: The Ostensible Improvement in Corporate Governance
- Access and Its Opponents: The Vital Role of the Nominating Committee
- Access and Unions: A Reply to Eugene Scalia
- Access and the 2008 Proxy Season
- Access and the Commission: The Rule of Unintended Consequences Begins
- Access and the Delaware Bar Association
- Access and the New Regime: The Countdown Begins
- Access and the Opposition: Be Careful What You Wish For
- Access is Coming
- Access is Here: Proposed Rule 14a-11 and Amendments to 14a-8
- Access, Arthur Levitt and the SEC
- Access: The Commission's Proposal (Introduction)
- Access: The Commission's Proposal (Some Thoughts)
- Bear Stearns and the Board of Directors
- Berger v. Pubco: What does Pubco add to our understanding about the interconnectedness of corporate law substantive rights and corporate law procedural rules? And where does this decision come out in adjusting process rules so they are strongly or weakly “minority friendly”?
- Berger v. Pubco: What does Pubco say about appraisal versus fiduciary remedies (and the difference between “fair price” and “fair value”)?
- Boyd v. Novastar Financial: Subprime Lending, the PSLRA, and the Need to Specify the Misstatements
- Broker Non-Voting and the SEC: Background
- Broker Non-Voting and the SEC: The Incumbent Advantage
- Broker Non-Voting and the SEC: The Rationale
- City of Westland Police & Fire Retirement System v. Axcelis Technologies, Inc: A Summary
- City of Westland Police v. Axcelis Technologies: The Appeal (Part 1)
- City of Westland Police v. Axcelis Technologies: The Appeal (Part 2)
- City of Westland Police v. Axcelis Technologies: The Appeal (Part 3) (A Guest Appearance of TheRacetotheBottom)
- City of Westland Police v. Axcelis Technologies: The Appeal (Part 4) (The Prospect of Federal Preemption)
- Collapsed Joint Venture Deal Between Kuwait and Dow Leads to Shareholder Suit
- Congress, CEO Pay and the Use of Compensation Consultants
- Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation
- Corporate Governance and the SEC: Rapid Disclosure of Interim Results and Improving the Integrity of the Voting Process
- Countrywide, Director Independence and Access
- Delaware Courts and the Continued Erosion of Fiduciary Duties
- Delaware Good Faith Decision Reassures Management
- Demonizing Hedge Funds (Without Evidence)
- Denial of Access and the Rule of Unintended Consequences Continues
- Director Elections, Institutional Investors, and Shareholder Rights
- Diversity, the Board of Directors, and Access
- E Proxies and the Need for Access
- Editorial: Shareholder Non-Access and the SEC, Non-Access is Better than Psuedo-Access
- Eliminating Fairness from the Duty of Loyalty: Hokanson v. Petty
- Executive Compensation and Merrill Lynch: The Right Hand/Left Hand Problem at the Wall Street Journal
- Exxon and the Rockefellers
- Exxon and the Shareholder Meeting: The Results Are In
- Fiduciary Duties of Officers and Directors: Gantler v. Stephens (An Introduction) (part 1)
- Fiduciary Duties of Officers and Directors: Gantler v. Stephens (Evolving Standards for Director Independence?) (Part 3)
- Fiduciary Duties of Officers and Directors: Gantler v. Stephens (The Facts)(Part 2)
- Fiduciary Duties of Officers and Directors: Gantler v. Stephens and the Problem of Stock Exchange Rules on Director Independence (Part 7)
- Fiduciary Duties of Officers and Directors: Gantler v. Stephens (A Final Comment)(Part 9)
- Fiduciary Duties of Officers and Directors: Gantler v. Stephens (Fiduciary Duties of Directors)(Part 4)
- Fiduciary Duties of Officers and Directors: Gantler v. Stephens (The Impact of Shareholder Ratification)(Part 6)
- Fiduciary Duties of Officers and Directors: Gantler v. Stephens (The Importance of Shareholder Ratification)(Part 5)
- Fiduciary Duties of Officers and Directors: Gantler v. Stephens (The Supreme Court Again Misreads Section144)(Part 8)
- George Bush, Access, and Executive Compensation
- Home Depot Settlement: Corporate Governance Changes
- In Re JQH: Entire Fairness Standard Will be Applied in Evaluating Acquisition of John Q. Hammon's Hotels
- Increasing Access for Shareholder Director Nominees
- It’s a Wonderful Lie: Mutual Fund Advocacy for Shareholders’ Rights, part 1
- It’s a Wonderful Lie: Mutual Fund Advocacy for Shareholders’ Rights, part 3
- Karten v. Woltin: Individual Harms Required By Shareholder To Bring A Direct Action
- Limiting the Duty of Loyalty: Pfeffer v. Redstone (Introduction)
- Limiting the Duty of Loyalty: Pfeffer v. Redstone (Student Post)
- Limiting the Duty of Loyalty: Pfeffer v. Redstone (Disclosing the Identity of the Special Committee)
- Limiting the Duty of Loyalty: Pfeffer v. Redstone (The Evisceration of the Duty of Loyalty)
- Lyondell Chemical v. Ryan: Yawn
- Majority Voting Requirements and Pyrrhic Victories
- Miscounting Shareholder Votes
- Mutual Funds, Management Support, and Fiduciary Obligations
- Non-Access, the SEC, and the Restrictions on Shareholder Rights (Part 1)
- Non-Access, the SEC, and the Restrictions on Shareholder Rights (Part 2)
- Non-Access, the SEC, and the Restrictions on Shareholder Rights (Part 3)
- Non-Access, the SEC, and the Restrictions on Shareholder Rights (Part 4)
- Non-Access, the SEC, and the Restrictions on Shareholder Rights (Part 5)
- Non-Access, the SEC, and the Restrictions on Shareholder Rights: An Arbitrary Exercise of Rulemaking
- Non-Access, the SEC, and the Restrictions on Shareholder Rights: The Hedge Fund Threat
- Of Hedge Funds, Unions and Shareholder Access
- Overturning Stoneridge and the Symbolic Passing of an Era
- Paul Atkins and Precatory Shareholder Proposals
- Precatory Proposals and Management's Response: The Case of "Say on Pay"
- Prolix v. Brobdingnagian: A suggestion for the Delaware courts
- Proposed Amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law and the Resulting Reduction in Shareholder Rights
- Proposed Amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law and the Resulting Reduction in Shareholder Rights
- Proxy Contests and Access
- Proxy Contests, Shareholder Access and "Special Interest Directors"
- Public Pension Plans, Labor Unions, and the Benefits of Shareholder Activism
- Public Pension Plans, Labor Unions, and the Benefits of Shareholder Activism (Continued)
- Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2009: Shareholder Access and the Consequences of Vituperative Opposition
- San Antonio Fire & Police v. Amylin: Delaware and the Ostrich Approach to Governance (Reading Every Page of Every Agreement)
- Separating Chairman and CEO: The Shareholders of BofA Have Spoken
- Separation of Chairman and CEO: The Case of BofA
- Shareholder Access Redux (Part 1)
- Shareholder Access Redux (Part 2)
- Shareholder Access Redux (Part 3)
- Shareholder Access Redux (Part 4)
- Shareholder Access Redux (Part 5)
- Shareholder Access Redux (Part 7)
- Shareholder Access Redux (part 6)
- Shareholder Access and Bank of America
- Shareholder Access and Comments: Opponents of Access (Part 3)
- Shareholder Access and Shareholder Value: The Benefit of Dissident Directors on the Board (Part 1)
- Shareholder Access and Shareholder Value: The Benefit of Dissident Directors on the Board (Part 2)
- Shareholder Access and the "Law of the Jungle" (Part 3)
- Shareholder Access and the "Law of the Jungle" (Part 1)
- Shareholder Access and the "Law of the Jungle" (Part 2)
- Shareholder Access and the Charade of Majority Voting Provisions
- Shareholder Access and the Comments (Part 1)
- Shareholder Access and the Comments (Part 2)
- Shareholder Access and the Commission: Congressman Frank Speaks
- Shareholder Access and the House Committee on Financial Services
- Shareholder Access and the SEC
- Shareholder Access, The SEC, and Corporate Governance: An Introduction (Part 1)
- Shareholder Access, the SEC and Corporate Governance: Electronic Shareholder Forums (Part 3)
- Shareholder Access, the SEC and Corporate Governance: The 5% Threshold (Part 2 1/2)
- Shareholder Access, the SEC and Corporate Governance: The 5% Threshold (Part 2)
- Shareholder Access, the SEC and Corporate Governance: The Bottom LIne (Part 8)
- Shareholder Access, the SEC and Corporate Governance: The Odd Case of Precatory Proposals (Part 7)
- Shareholder Access, the SEC and Corporate Governance: The Problem of Imprecise Language (Part 6)
- Shareholder Access, the SEC and TheRacetotheBottom
- Shareholder Access, the SEC, and Corporate Governance: The Problem of Motivations (Part 5)
- Shareholder Access, the SEC, and Corporate Governance: The Problem of Selective Disclosure (Part 4)
- Shareholder Access: The High Cost of Proxy Solicitations
- Shareholder Activists, Exxon and Global Warming
- Shareholder Advisory Services and Congressional Pressure
- Shareholder Communications Coalition
- Shareholder Communications and the Problem of Beneficial Ownership (Part 2)
- Shareholder Communications and the Problem of Street Name Ownership (Part 1)
- Shareholder Communications and the Problem of Street Name Ownership (Part 3)
- Shareholder Communications and the Problem of Street Name Ownership (Part 4)
- Shareholder Communications and the Problem of Street Name Ownership (Part 5)
- Shareholder Communications and the Problem of Street Name Ownership (Part 6)
- Shareholder Communications and the Problem of Street Name Ownership (Part 7)
- Shareholder Non-Access, Corporate Governance and the SEC: Federal Preemption of a State Law Right (Part 4)
- Shareholder Non-Access, Corporate Governance and the SEC: Promises, Promises (Part 5)
- Shareholder Non-Access, Corporate Governance and the SEC: The Experience with Access (Part 3)
- Shareholder Non-Access, Corporate Governance and the SEC: The Experience with Access and the Case of Cryo-Cell (Part 3 1/2)
- Shareholder Non-Access, Corporate Governance and the SEC: The Limited Impact of Access (Part 7)
- Shareholder Non-Access, Corporate Governance and the SEC: The Rule of Unintended Consequences (Part 6)
- Shareholder Non-Access, Corporate Governance and the SEC: The Statistics (Part 2)
- Shareholder Non-Access, Corporate Governance and the SEC: Leaving in Place Inadequate Disclosure (Part 8)
- Shareholder Non-Access, Corporate Governance and the SEC: The Bottom Line (Part 9)
- Shareholder Non-Access, Corporate Governance and the SEC: The Experience with Access and the Case of Apria Healthcare (Part 3 3/4)
- Shareholder Non-Access, Corporate Governance and the SEC: The Race to the Bottom Comments
- Shareholder Non-Access, Corporate Governance, and the SEC (Part 1)
- Shareholder Participation in Governance and Precatory Proposals
- Shareholder Proposals and the North Dakota Public Corporations Act
- Shareholder Proposals and the North Dakota Publicly Traded Corporations Act
- Shareholder Rights Act of 2009
- Shareholders, Majority Voting, and the Continued Need for Access
- Take-Two Interactive and the Battle for the Board
- The Auto Manufacturers and the Failure of the Market for Corporate Control
- The Chamber of Commerce and Excessive Litigation: Be Careful What You Wish For (Part 4)
- The Chamber of Commerce and Excessive Litigation: Be Careful What You Wish For (Part 3)
- The Economist and Lynn Stout: A Condescending Argument on Access
- The Financial Crisis, Reform, and the SEC: The Need For Access
- The Government Bailout of AIG and Sovereign Wealth Funds
- The Myth of Majority Vote Provisions
- The North Dakota Publicly Trade Corporations Act: A Race to the Top?
- The North Dakota Publicly Traded Corporations Act and "Say on Pay"
- The North Dakota Publicly Traded Corporations Act and Poison Pills
- The North Dakota Publicly Traded Corporations Act and Reducing the CEO's Control of the Board
- The North Dakota Publicly Traded Corporations Act and the Delaware Advantage
- The North Dakota Publicly Traded Corporations Act, Shareholder Proposals and the Securities and Exchange Commission
- The Problem of Blank Votes
- The Race to the Bottom and Shareholder Accessibility to Information: Norfolk County Retirement v. Jos. A Bank Clothier (Part 1)
- The Race to the Bottom and the North Dakota Publicly Traded Corporations Act
- The SEC and Shareholder Rights: Electing Directors and the Proposed Amendments to the Proxy Rules
- The SEC's Access Proposal: Some Observations
- The SEC's Access Proposal: Some Observations (The Myth of Private Ordering)
- The SEC's Access Proposal: Some Observations (The Relationship to State Law)
- The SEC's Access Proposal: Some Observations (The Confusion of a Control Motive)
- The SEC's Access Proposal: Some Observations (The Impact on Board Nomination of Insurgent Directors)
- The SEC, Corporate Governance, and Shareholder Access to the Proxy Statement
- The SEC, the Election of Directors, and a Proposal to Reduce the Rights of Shareholders
- The Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act: The Sixth and Ninth Circuits Adopt a Broad Reading (Securities Issues)
- The Shareholder Bill of Rights of 2009
- The Shareholder Communication Rules and A Lonely Piece of Scholarship
- The Takeover of Take-Two: The Consequences of Being Unprepared
- The Takeover of Take-Two: The Contested Election
- The Takeover of Take-Two: Corporate Governance Issues
- The Takeover of Take-Two: The Company and Its Problems
- The Takeover of Take-Two: The Problem of the Proxy Rules
- TheRacetotheBottom Comments on the SEC's Access Proposal
- VC Strine and Access
- Verizon, the Commission, and Rule 14a-8
- Wachtell, Lipton and the Opening Salvo Against the Shareholder Bill of Rights (Introduction)
- Wachtell, Lipton and the Opening Salvo Against the Shareholder Bill of Rights (Short Termism)
- Wachtell, Lipton and the Opening Salvo Against the Shareholder Bill of Rights (The Criticisms)
- Wachtell, Lipton, Shareholder Access, and Diatribes in Place of Analysis
- eBay vs. Craigslist: Battle to Control the Interest of a Minority Shareholder? (Part 1)
- eBay vs. Craigslist: Battle to Control the Interest of a Minority Shareholder? (Part 2)
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