The other main shareholders in Group Menatep, the main owner of Yukos, have fled the country, and Yukos's takeover of Sibneft, another big oil company, has fallen apart.
Scott-Barrett's departure comes as a small surprise since ABN's activist shareholder The Children's Investment Fund (TCI) had been braying for the head of Chief Executive RijkmanGroeninkRijkman Groenink, while Dutch shareholders rights group VEB had also said the chief's position was untenable.
Scott-Barrett's departure comes as a small surprise since ABN's activist shareholder The Children's Investment Fund (TCI) had been braying for the head of Chief Executive Rijkman Groenink , while Dutch shareholders rights group VEB had also said the chief's position was untenable.
When you talk about the interest of shareholders or some group you can lay your hands on it.
Warren Buffett discussed corporate cash in his latest letter to Berkshire Hathaway ( BRK) shareholders, a group that I am part of.
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Although BAE and EADS have presented the tie-up as a merger, one contentious issue is that EADS shareholders would end up with 60% of the new group, and BAE shareholders the rest.
Indeed, he sees the future of Rimage as potentially attracting an entirely new group of shareholders.
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It is also unlikely: only about one-third of Arcelor's widely dispersed group of shareholders usually attend such meetings.
I'm working to improve the prospects of learners and those who teach them, not to make a profit for a group of shareholders.
In April last year they together acquired 5% of Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino, Italy's biggest banking group, becoming part of a controlling group of shareholders.
"This restructuring is not responsive to the concerns expressed in our letter and, we believe, is not in the best interest of Morgan Stanley's shareholders, " the group said in a statement.
In today's decision, a group of shareholders accused Tellabs , a maker of fiber-optic equipment, and its former chief executive, Richard Notebaert, of knowingly misleading investors about the company's deteriorating financial position.
In today's decision, a group of shareholders accused Tellabs (nasdaq: TLAB - news - people ), a maker of fiber-optic equipment, and its former chief executive, Richard Notebaert, of knowingly misleading investors about the company's deteriorating financial position.
Not long after my last post (October 19), which concerned the tenuous relationship between the Hewlett-Packard board and former CEO Mark Hurd, came word that a group of shareholders have sued current and past H-P board members, including Hurd, alleging that directors allowed and possibly encouraged illegal activities in sales to the U.S. government.
It cheats members of one group taxpayers, shareholders or Sunday-supplement readers and distributes the proceeds as spoils to a privileged group.
And the Tribune Company is hardly the only media group with angry shareholders.
The publisher of the Wall Street Journal will become part of Mr Murdoch's News Corporation group after all shareholders have voted.
Apparently, Mr. Jefferies is undeterred by an investigation by an executive compensation watchdog group, The Shareholders Foundation, on behalf of long term shareholders.
While a group of activist shareholders argue that price is too cheap and want to do a recapitalization that would keep the company public.
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In 2006, Burk was among a group of Exxon shareholders who accused the company of violating its discrimination policies by supporting the golf tournament.
Last week, a group of Yukos shareholders placed advertisements in newspapers promising to sue any company that bid for Yuganskneftegaz, or any bank that financed a bid.
"We were 50 companies just independently attached by a group of similar shareholders, " he explains, sitting in his spacious yet unpretentious office at Empresas Polar headquarters in Caracas.
SA the second-largest, remember passed from the group's shareholders to the brothers.
But this sort of thing always precedes big energy deals in Russia, and the way the AAR Group of Russian shareholders in TNK-BP sees it, everything is under control.
Empowered with new rights, some group of BP shareholders would likely have asked if directors and officers considered the environmental impact of hundreds of decisions during the last decade when BP racked up more than 750 safety violations ( 97% of all violations cited during that time by regulators).
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Such changes had been demanded by a group of eight dissident shareholders, led by former Morgan Stanley President Robert Scott.
Addressing a large group of mainly private shareholders at the meeting, Mr Cook -- sitting on a high stool, and dressed in a black shirt and jeans -- defended Apple's growth rate and recent performance.
Reuters yesterday reported about about a group of JPMorgan Chase shareholders who have issued a proposal asking the Board of JPM to consider breaking up the bank in order to boost shareholder value.
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In recent months, Chairman and Chief Executive Philip Purcell has waged a public battle with a group of eight dissident shareholders who are calling for his head, claiming his mismanagement is to blame for the company's lackluster performance.
The board of mining group Xstrata has recommended that shareholders back the merger terms offered by commodities trader Glencore.
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