Shareholders & Activism
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From the red carpet: Shareholder engagement and M&A trends
The team looks back at this year’s Corporate Governance Awards with snippets of the exclusive red-carpet interviews with winner and nominees Nasdaq-listed AI and blockchain company AIxCrypto has named Andrew Grossman as its new head of legal. In the role, Grossman will oversee the company’s legal, compliance and governance functions, which include the management of SEC disclosures, fund and investment compliance,digital assetand Web3 protocol architecture as well as major strategic and commercial agreements. He enters the role with extensive experience in securities regulation,digital assetecosystem architecture, strategic corporate structuring, IP strategy and governance. The appointment follows on from the company’s rebrand…
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Governance lessons to learn from this year’s shareholder activism
What big contests, the universal proxy and other developments mean for boards going into 2025 In this month’s episode of the Governance Matters podcast, we take a look at some of the key moments and trends in shareholder activism from this past proxy season and what they mean for governance professionals. There were proxy tussles at The Walt Disney Company and Starbucks, both notable for several reasons – including that each company has a large retail shareholder base. Disney succeeded in beating back Nelson Peltz and his activist fund firm Trian Partners, while the Strategic Organizing Center, a coalition of…
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Governance Matters podcast: Governance lessons from the Disney and Starbucks proxy contests
New episode also looks at DoJ efforts to encourage corporate whistleblowers In this month’s episode of the Governance Matters podcast, Bruce Goldfarb, president and CEO of Okapi Partners, discusses lessons for boards and governance professionals from two of the most high-profile proxy contests of the year, involving The Walt Disney Company and Starbucks. Okapi Partners represented Nelson Peltz’s Trian Partners in the Disney case. The firm also worked with the Strategic Organizing Center, a coalition of labor unions that nominated three director candidates to the Starbucks board before withdrawing them after an agreement was reached with the company to work…
