On Shareolder Voting Trends … It shows that the average level of support for management proposals rose from 75.8% in 2006 to 84% last year. In Europe, Manifest, a shareholder-advice firm, says 97% of all shareholder votes cast in Europe last year were supportive of management…. June 2nd 2009 Evening Standard >> ….A big problem, […]
Read MoreDid the Lloyds board act with sufficient care on the HBOS deal? Manifest takes a look at the legal aspects of directors’ duties in the context of one of this century’s most politically charged takeovers. The 2006 Companies Act for the first time codified a number of long established common law principles relating to the […]
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