Deal Lawyers

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

This recent Sullivan & Cromwell publication, 2023 Corporate Governance Developments, gives an excellent overview of Board and Committee agenda topics that are relevant right now. According to data from […]

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The Deal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

(VFC) to consider divestitures, a group of students at the University of Pennsylvania Law School enrolled in the school’s Shareholder Activism course identified the apparel and footwear company as a possible activist target. The course is among a number of activist courses popping up at top business and law schools in the U.S. “I

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The Deal

JANUARY 12, 2024

Jillian Colbert Alsheimer and her husband, Sebastian, have the unusual distinction of being a couple who both work as high-profile advisers in the activist investing space. We certainly try not to be across from each other or really even on the same side [of an activist situation],” Jillian said.

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The Deal

AUGUST 4, 2023

The post Activist Investing Today: Campaign’s Fein Talks Tenure, AI, McDonald’s appeared first on The Deal. In addition, cybersecurity and the growth of artificial intelligence are both legitimate issues corporations must examine and consider when identifying director candidates, he said. “But

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Cleary M&A and Corporate Governance Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

As has become a tradition, we have asked our colleagues from around our firm to boil down those issues in their fields that boards of directors and senior management of public companies will be facing in the coming year, yielding focused updates in eighteen topics that will surely feature at the top of board agendas throughout the year.

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Transactional Delights

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Following the public filing documenting CHH’s offer to WH, here is what social media had to say on the topic: Make no mistake: $CHH going public with its offer to $WH is a hostile action. I remember venturing into Dick Parsons’ office once - let me say, they don’t make offices like that anymore (so far as I know).

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Transactional Delights

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Today’s topic broadly covers the current shareholder landscape. Hohn, a prominent shareholder activist, is leading his own Say on Climate campaign, stating “ You only need to buy $25,000 of stock and hold it for one year to file a shareholder resolution in the U.S. Hohn is not the only shareholder activist with ESG goals.

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