Activist Firms
Research, Custom Data, and Communication Tools for Activist Firms
Access market-leading insights to execute your strategy and reach key decision-makers assessing contested situations
Shareholder activism is surging globally, adding complexity to investment workflows. Glass Lewis provides activist firms with in-depth analysis, vote recommendations, extensive data, and communications tools to identify risks and opportunities, engage stakeholders, execute campaigns, and reach key decision-makers at scale.
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Our Core Benefits
Present Your Case on Contested Situations
Frame your narrative and articulate your case to the world’s leading investors through our Proxy Talks and RFS services.
Engage with Key Stakeholders
Our Proxy Papers are published ~19 days before a meeting, and Special Situations Research ~12 days before, giving activist investors more time to engage stakeholders.
Identify Risks and Opportunities
Harness 20+ years of governance research and data to evaluate director qualifications, related-party transactions, and insider affiliations, which helps to uncover opportunities and mitigate risks.
Stewardship in Action: Engagement Snapshots on Executive Pay Incentives and Peer Groups
This article shows how investment stewardship engagement with a biotech company and an advanced analytics company led to positive outcomes for institutional shareholders.
Stewardship in Action: Engagement Snapshots on Executive Pay Incentives and Peer Groups
This article shows how investment stewardship engagement with a biotech company and an advanced analytics company led to positive outcomes for institutional shareholders.
Tracking Shareholder Proposals and Company Exclusions: Mid-Season Observations
How has the SEC’s new approach to no-action requests impacted the shareholder proposal landscape?
Tracking Shareholder Proposals and Company Exclusions: Mid-Season Observations
How has the SEC’s new approach to no-action requests impacted the shareholder proposal landscape?
Market Brief: What Proxy Voting for Third-Party Tokenized Stocks and ETFs Might Mean for Governance
This article examines how proxy voting for third-party tokenized stocks and ETFs could reshape governance. Though it creates new ways for investors to participate in proxy voting, it also raises unresolved governance questions around ownership rights and voting eligibility, transparency, intermediary accountability, and fiduciary responsibility.
Market Brief: What Proxy Voting for Third-Party Tokenized Stocks and ETFs Might Mean for Governance
This article examines how proxy voting for third-party tokenized stocks and ETFs could reshape governance. Though it creates new ways for investors to participate in proxy voting, it also raises unresolved governance questions around ownership rights and voting eligibility, transparency, intermediary accountability, and fiduciary responsibility.
The Current Strategic Landscape for Investment Stewardship
Based on findings from the 2026 Investment Stewardship Survey Report, this article covers current engagement priorities, operational approaches to stewardship, criteria for prioritization of engagement themes, and key areas of improvement.
The Current Strategic Landscape for Investment Stewardship
Based on findings from the 2026 Investment Stewardship Survey Report, this article covers current engagement priorities, operational approaches to stewardship, criteria for prioritization of engagement themes, and key areas of improvement.