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5 Factors Impacting Activists’ Declining Success Rate

Harvard Corporate Governance

companies with market capitalizations of at least $100 million and where ISS and Glass Lewis published voting recommendations. From 2017 through 2020, activists won at least one board seat in 57% of these contests. FTI Consulting examined proxy contests in which the underlying campaign sought board seats at U.S.

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M&A Industry Trends: What sectors have the best-selling businesses?

Viking Mergers

With just a few exceptions, the M&A boom swept across the US economy with deal values up significantly from 2020 totals. In 2021, there were 2,193 technology deals, up sixty-nine percent (69%) from 2020, while value numbers rose one hundred and thirty-three percent (133%). Nearly every industry had record activity in 2021, though.

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Time Running Out Under the HFCAA

Harvard Corporate Governance

In December 2020, the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act , co-sponsored by Senators John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, and Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat from Maryland, was signed into law. exchanges had a total market capitalization of $1.4 Posner is special counsel at Cooley LLP.

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Data Update 1 for 2021: A (Data) Look Back at a Most Forgettable Year (2020)!

Musings on Markets

The second was that, starting mid-year in 2020, equity markets and the real economy moved in different directions, with the former rising on the expectations a post-virus future, and the latter languishing, as most of the world continued to operate with significant constraints.

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

Harvard Corporate Governance

3] The Grant On January 21, 2018, Tesla’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) [4] unanimously approved the Grant, which would vest based on Tesla’s achievement of certain market capitalization goals, as well as operational milestones related to revenue and adjusted EBITDA targets. The process arrived at an unfair price.” [3]

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Back to Earth or Temporary Setback? Revisiting the FANGAM Stocks

Musings on Markets

Netflix and Facebook saw drops of 20% or more in market capitalization, following negative earnings reports, but Amazon and Google beat market expectations. trillion in market cap, accounting for all of the recovery in US stocks during that period. to 14.9%. Clearly, much has happened since these valuations.

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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. Recall Nvidia’s attempt to acquire Arm Holdings in 2020; regulators in the US, the UK, Europe and China blocked the effort.