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Murder on the City Express – Who is Killing the London Stock Exchange’s Equity Market?

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peers on at least one significant measure – the market capitalization to Gross Domestic Product (“GDP”) ratio. exchanges have seen a consistent rise in the aggregate market capitalization to GDP ratio since at least 2017, the equivalent metric for the U.K. As we underscored in a previous paper , while the U.S.

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

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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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An Early Look at 2023 CEO & CFO Pay Actions

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billion and median market capitalization of $7.0 This post investigates compensation actions for CEOs and CFOs at S&P 1500 companies that have fiscal year ends between 9/30 and 11/30. The sample consists of fifty cross-industry companies with median revenue of $4.6 incentive compensation) slightly lower for CFOs (more…)

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Tornetta v. Musk: Post-Trial Opinion

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s directors breached their fiduciary duties by awarding Elon Musk a performance-based equity-compensation plan. For a tranche to vest, Tesla’s market capitalization must increase by $50 billion and Tesla must achieve either an adjusted EBITDA target or a revenue target in four consecutive fiscal quarters.

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

Harvard Corporate Governance

Mega grants are large, one-time equity awards with long vesting periods (up to 10 years) granted in lieu of or in addition to annual awards with the intended purpose of providing significant incentive to achieve long-term targets. We recently published a paper on SSRN (“Mega Grants: Why Would A Board Approve Nine-Figure CEO Pay?”)

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Do Activists Beat the Market?

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companies with market capitalizations greater than $500 million at the time of campaign announcement. individuals, private equity funds, family offices). Our empirical review included campaigns waged between 2018 and H1 2023 at U.S. more…)

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Data Update 2 for 2023: A Rocky Year for Equities!

Musings on Markets

While there are many events during 2022, some political and some economic, that one can point to as the reason for poor stock returns, it is undeniable that inflation was the driving force behind the market correction. In this section, I will begin with a deconstruction of stock returns in 2022 and the year's place in stock market history.

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