TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s Toshiba Corp on Friday said more than 1,000 postal voting forms for its shareholder meeting went uncounted, and the bank that counted the votes, which carries out a similar job for almost a thousand listed companies, said the oversight may not have been limited to Toshiba...
Vanguard Group Inc said it voted against the pay of Alphabet Inc executives, including new CEO Sundar Pichai, one of several examples of proxy voting the top mutual fund firm gave in a report to be released on Tuesday as it names a new stewardship chief...
Bridgewater Associates’ director of investment research, Karen Karniol-Tambour, on Thursday denied a report that she had claimed gender discrimination in conversations about her pay with the hedge fund’s management...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Starboard Value said on Friday that it sold nearly three quarters of its stake in eBay Inc (EBAY.O) during the second quarter when the activist investment firm also ended its proxy fight at the ecommerce company...
Two non-executive directors of EasyJet (EZJ.L) are to step down from the board later this year in line with corporate governance best practice, having each served for nine years, the British airline said on Monday...
Coty Inc (COTY.N) on Monday appointed its Chairman and top investor JAB Holdings executive Peter Harf to the role of chief executive officer, as the cosmetics maker tries to revive sales and steer through the coronavirus crisis...
NEW YORK, May 13 (Reuters) - American International Group Inc said shareholders approved the insurer’s executive-compensation plan on Wednesday, following two years of criticism for high pay...
(Reuters) - GCP Applied Technologies said on Friday that its largest investor had wanted to take control of GCP’s board itself before backing activist investor Starboard Value, which also wants to replace most GCP directors...
Often rowdy and confrontational, this year’s bank shareholder meetings have so far been brief and uneventful as the annual gatherings move online amid U.S. coronavirus lockdowns...
(Reuters) - Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc (BRKa.N) said on Friday that former American Express Co (AXP.N) Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Chenault has been nominated to the conglomerate’s board of directors, replacing Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) co-founder Bill Gates...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. securities regulator on Thursday voted to relax internal audit controls introduced at smaller publicly listed companies in 2002 following a string of accounting scandals including at now-defunct energy company Enron Corp...
(Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn has increased his stake in Occidental Petroleum Corp to almost 10%, scaling up his fight to take control of the oil producer, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Wednesday...
Executive compensation and coronavirus are likely to be the focus of investor questions at Walt Disney Co’s (DIS.N) annual meeting on Wednesday - the first to feature the company’s new chief executive officer, Bob Chapek...
(Reuters) - Fashions change and presidential administrations come and go, but the feud between corporate guru Martin Lipton of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Harvard law professor Lucian Bebchuk will apparently always be with us...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s Toshiba Machine (6104.T) said on Wednesday it would officially oppose a takeover offer by activist investor Yoshiaki Murakami and hold a shareholders meeting on March 27 to seek approval for the adoption of defense measures...
U.S. educational software company Instructure Inc (INST.N) said on Monday a certain activist investor was trying to derail its $2 billion deal with private equity firm Thoma Bravo...
(Reuters) - Marty Lipton’s inchoate feud with the Council of Institutional Investors may be the juiciest early story to emerge from the Business Roundtable’s announcement this week of a new corporate paradigm. But it’s not the only legal story prompted by the bombshell BRT announcement, in which business leaders pledged to consider the interests of an array of stakeholders – employees, customers, suppliers and community members – in addition to shareholders’ interest in maximizing profits...
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The board of Citgo Petroleum [PDVSAC.UL] appointed by Venezuela’s congress chief was properly seated, a U.S. court ruled, dealing a blow to contested Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s efforts to retake control of the Texas-based refiner...
WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) - Travis Kalanick, the co-founder of ride-hailing company Uber, and the company’s directors won the dismissal of an investor lawsuit that sought to hold them liable for a fight over trade secrets that slowed Uber’s push into autonomous vehicles...
ROZZANO, Italy (Reuters) - Telecom Italia shareholders on Friday approved top investor Vivendi’s offer to withdraw a request to replace some board directors at the Italian phone group...
(Reuters) - General Electric Co. on Monday elected Paula Rosput Reynolds to its board of directors, replacing John Brennan who had earlier announced his intention to retire...
(Reuters) - Activist investor Elliott wants Thyssenkrupp ( TKAG.DE ) to give its business divisions more autonomy to pursue promising ventures, an Elliott executive told German daily Die Welt, following a leadership crisis at the German engineering group...
(Reuters) - Activist investor John Paulson’s hedge fund on Thursday nominated eight members to Detour Gold Corp’s board and reiterated its call for a special shareholder meeting, ratcheting up pressure on the gold miner...
(Reuters) - Hong Kong billionaire businesswoman Pollyanna Chu, who made her fortune from Macau’s VIP gaming parlours and margin financing, has lost nearly three-fourths of her wealth this year, a rapid decline that sees her slip down the list of Asia’s wealthiest...