Case Study: The AES Corporation’s No Action Reaction

When The AES Corporation managed to exclude a shareholder proposal that would have lowered the ownership threshold for calling a special meeting, it thought it had avoided a recurring headache. In the end though, disregarding [...]

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Breaking News: Executive Compensation Still Interesting!

While the dust may have settled a bit since the introduction of say-on-pay votes in the United States three years ago, it’s undeniable that executive compensation remains a hot topic. And if the recent flood [...]

By |2021-04-08T14:56:23-07:00February 6, 2014|Blog|Comments Off on Breaking News: Executive Compensation Still Interesting!

U.S. LIBOR-Fixing, A Governance Perspective

Can shareholders of Bank of America, Citigroup, or JPMorgan learn anything about their potential exposure to the burgeoning LIBOR-fixing scandal from the banks' most recent public disclosures? In the weeks since UK and US regulators [...]

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