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dual-class share structures, AGM, shareholder proposals, shareholder meetings

Upcoming Shareholder Proposals: First Half of March 2025

March 7, 2025


As we enter March, the corporate world continues to gear up for the imminent 2025 peak season. Starbucks Corp’s AGM, scheduled for 12 March 2025, is a key meeting …

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Artificial Intelligence, AI

Shareholders Call for Board Oversight of Artificial Intelligence

September 20th, 2024


As advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence are expected to transform business models and strategies, shareholders are driving the conversation around boardroom oversight of AI-related risks and opportunities.

During …

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Hareid, Norway - 2022 March 24. Rig move of Equinor oil platform Njord Alpha with ahts vessel Siem Pearl innside the Norwegian fjord.

Investors get louder on demands for climate action: boardrooms stall and lurch in response

May 21st 2024


Institutional investors and shareholder advocacy firms across the world are increasingly calling for more action from energy companies in response to the climate …

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Flatout at flatex? Demands for leadership change at June’s Virtual AGM

May 17th, 2024


A high-stakes shareholder fight has broken out at Germany’s fintech brokerage flatexDEGIRO AG. After a flurry of senior management changes, twenty percent shareholder, GfBk Gesellschaft für …

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FCA

FCA starts development of ESG rating providers’ code of conduct


November 24, 2022

A Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) taskforce has been formed to help regulate ESG data and ratings providers.

The working group will be co-chaired by M&G, Moody’s, London …

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COP27 and EU Flags

COP27: EU doubles down on climate ambitions


November 18, 2022

The European Union has told world leaders at the COP27 summit it plans to update its already ambitious emissions-cutting target over the coming year.

The 27-country bloc’s upgraded mission statement …

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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak , UK government

Sunak tells UK executives to curtail their pay


November 18, 2022

Rishi Sunak has urged the UK’s top executives to demonstrate leadership during the cost-of-living crisis by showing “restraint” with their pay.

The British Prime Minister made the comments as …

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Elon Musk Silhouetted in front of the Tesla logo

Musk defends $56 billion Tesla pay packet in court


November 18, 2022

Elon Musk has appeared in court to defend his $56 billion Tesla pay package against claims he dictated its terms to the company’s board.

Tesla shareholder Richard Tornetta …

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USCC. US Chamber of Commerce website

Lobbying giant calls for SEC disclosure on proxy rules error


November 11, 2022

America’s biggest business lobbying group is calling for answers on how a computer glitch affected a public consultation on rules regulating how proxy firms advise investors on …

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Channel 7, West Media Group

Executive pay at Seven West Media found to be “erroneous”


November 11, 2022

Seven West Media (SWM) has had to reissue its 2022 remuneration report after discovering it was based on miscalculations by external consultants Ernst & Young (EY).

The …

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