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US activist investor Guy Wyser-Pratte is turning the heat up under Lagardère and claims to have new evidence proving that last summer’s board seat bid was hit by flawed voting procedures.
At stake is Wyser-Pratte’s attempt to shake up management …
Read MoreIt is often argued that poor governance structures prepared the ground for the financial crisis. The lack of shareholder engagement in particular is seen to have enabled banks to take on more and more risk. In response, the UK Financial …
Read More“Don’t be British, be Australian” is the message from Claire Bury, the EU’s corporate governance official.
Speaking at the UK’s National Associate of Pension Funds investment conference in Edinburgh recently, Claire outlined the Commission’s approach to the forthcoming Governance Green …
Read MoreUpdate 14 March 2011: The Company’s legal advisors have confirmed to Manifest that all shareholders are entitled to vote on the single resolution to approve the transaction. The votes will be counted twice – the first time to satisfy the …
Read MoreIt would be fair to say that the importance of shareholder voting has enjoyed an increasingly higher profile in recent years, not least in response to the financial crisis. Just within the UK investment context, initiatives such as the Myners …
Read MoreS&P 500 constituent Monsanto Company yesterday became one of the first US companies to hold its AGM following the introduction of the new US rules requiring an advisory vote on the remuneration of the directors and an advisory vote on …
Read MoreThere can be little argument with suggestions that the dynamics of the Remuneration Committee are crucial to ensuring a balanced approach on executive pay issues. Indeed there may be value for shareholders in an amendment to the UK Corporate Governance …
Read MoreIf 2008 was the year of crisis and 2009 the year of survival and steadying the ship, 2010 was the year of longer-term policy response. If one word stands out more than any other from the policy debates of last …
Read MoreThe US Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals (SCSGP) has called for the SEC to regulate proxy advisory agencies “to change certain of their current procedures”, in order to “make the processes and methodologies utilized by the proxy advisory …
Read MoreIt was with great sadness that Steve Wallman, founder of ProxyGovernance Inc, let the team at Manifest know that PGI would be closing its doors at the end of the year. Manifest has worked closely with the PGI team since …
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