Busy in Gray Areas of the Law In Bid to Control a Rival
In Charles W. Ergen’s war for LightSquared, the fiercest fight involves a legal loophole...
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Articles from STEVEN M. DAVIDOFF
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The Case Against Too Much Independence on the Board
Read Full ArticleRegulators and institutional investors keep pushing the independent directors as the cure-all for what ails America’s corporations. Yet that independence, like innovation itself, can be too much of a good thing...
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A Vote Goes Against Outsize Executive Pay, But It's Hardly a Blow
Read Full ArticleIf you’re against high executive pay, don’t cheer because Oracle's shareholders overwhelmingly rejected Larry Ellison's $78.4 million pay package...
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Judge Opens Lid on Deal Companies Would Prefer Stay Shut
Read Full ArticleVivendi and Activision Blizzard have been tripped up on their new deal by their old one, creating a possible “wreck,” as one participant representing Activision put it...
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Thorny Side Effects in Silicon Valley Tactic to Keep Control
Read Full ArticleThe gods of Silicon Valley have repeatedly sought to take the companies they founded public while retaining control as if they were still private...
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A Lesson for Boardroom Battles
Read Full ArticleProxy access may be dead in the United States, but it lives in Israel, to the great regret of Taro Pharmaceutical Industries. Taro is facing a proxy battle involving two external directors nominated by the asset management firm BlueMountain Capital Management. While unfortunate for Taro, it all shows an alternative universe of what, for better or worse, could have happened had proxy access been in place in the United States...
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A Simple Solution That Made a Hard Problem More Difficult
Read Full ArticleCongressional leaders, in their rage against ever-rising executive compensation and income inequality, have created more murkiness...
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Little Accountability for Directors, Despite Poor Performance
Read Full ArticleAficionados of good corporate governance shouldn’t get too excited about the fact that two Hewlett-Packard directors are leaving the board and a third, Raymond J. Lane, is stepping down as chairman.
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