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Do Activists Beat the Market?

Harvard Corporate Governance

Posted by Mary Ann Deignan, Rich Thomas, and Kathryn Night, Lazard, on Tuesday, August 1, 2023 Editor's Note: Mary Ann Deignan is Head of Capital Markets Advisory, and Rich Thomas and Kathryn Night are Managing Directors in the Capital Markets Advisory group at Lazard. This post is based on a Lazard memorandum by Ms.

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Dissecting the Long-Term Performance of the Chinese Stock Market

Harvard Corporate Governance

The Chinese stock market started in 1990 with the establishment of two domestic stock exchanges (the “A share” market): the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE hereafter) and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE). The A share market is the second largest in the world in terms of total market capitalization, trailing only the US equity markets.

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Tornetta v. Musk: Post-Trial Opinion

Harvard Corporate Governance

The plan offers Musk the opportunity to secure 12 total tranches of options, each representing 1% of Tesla’s total outstanding shares as of January 21, 2018. With a $55.8 billion maximum value and $2.6 With a $55.8 billion maximum value and $2.6

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2024 Top 250 Annual Incentive Plan Report

Harvard Corporate Governance

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Our 2024 Annual Incentive Plan Report provides a comprehensive review of the annual incentive plans of the top 250 largest companies in the S&P 500 by market capitalization. Similarly, references to 2023, 2022 and 2019 publication years correspond to 2022, 2021 and 2018 compensation practices, respectively.

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Chancery Invalidates Elon Musk’s $55.8 Billion Equity Compensation Package

Harvard Corporate Governance

1] The plaintiff-stockholders alleged that Tesla’s directors breached their fiduciary duties by awarding Musk performance-based stock options in January 2018 with a potential $55.8 A February 8, 2018 proxy statement (the “Proxy”) notified stockholders of a vote on the Grant, which was held on March 21, 2018. Tornetta et al.

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Mega Grants: Why Would a Board Approve Nine-Figure CEO Pay?

Harvard Corporate Governance

Another turning point occurred in 2018 when the board of Tesla awarded CEO Elon Musk a performance-vested stock-option package valued at up to $56 billion , based on achieving an aggressive series of market capitalization, revenue, and cash flow targets over a 10-year period.

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Intel In Crosshairs Of Apollo, Qualcomm

Global Finance

Intel’s market share continues to decline. Its stock price has plummeted 60% this year and its market capitalization fell below $100 billion in early August: the first time that has happened since 2012. This would translate to a market value of about $135 billion.