At Chesapeake (CHK) shareholders took action when they found out about the CEO financing personal deals on the side.
In total, RBS is facing unquantified claims over losses to shareholders, starting in the US, and with UK shareholders threatening action.
It's not clear whether they have any actual shareholders on board yet (or at least any willing to serve as lead plaintiff), but a law firm in New York has filed a class action shareholders suit against Sierra alleging that the company's introduction of the Voq was so bungled and incompetent that they violated their responsibilities to shareholders.
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In the US, there's class action from shareholders suing because their stake's lost value.
But Aer Lingus' board rejected the offer in a statement Monday and urged shareholders to take no action.
He also says he is concerned that the firm's Japanese shareholders have taken no action, and that the Japanese authorities have not contacted him in relation to investigating the scandal.
The investigation of the Enron affair is widening on two fronts: Lawyers for Enron shareholders will expand their action to include charges against Enron's investment banks and law firms, adding to claims already filed against Enron executives, board members, its auditor and the bankrupt company itself.
Others argue individual shareholders suffer from a collective action problem, where they are forced to sell out for a price above the market price because other shareholders will, even if the entire company is worth much more.
As the participation by Italian shareholders in American class-action suits against Parmalat show, litigiousness is not a trait confined to America.
Many corporations are reluctant to disclose the full impact and cost of the problem to their shareholders because they fear legal action.
Nothing can excuse such an action, and shareholders will not be bought off with a dividend of our own money while value is destroyed.
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That's capitalism, in one of its rawest forms, as practiced in a reasonably open democracy where voters, shareholders and consumers grizzle and take action if they are not happy.
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Gerald Corbett, chairman of Betfair, advised shareholders to sit tight and take no action.
Meanwhile, some Mannesmann shareholders say they are launching a court action in the United States to try and force the company to talk to Vodafone.
Earlier this month more than 12, 000 private shareholders and 100 institutional investors raised a class action against the bank.
Unfortunately for shareholders, a class of entrepreneurial class-action lawyers also frequent the Delaware courts, filing hair-trigger lawsuits whenever a takeover is announced, with hopes of collecting a fee to go away.
More than 12, 000 private shareholders and 100 institutional investors have raised a class action against the bank.
What will also be interesting is whether the owners of the business, the shareholders, see that statement about "significant management action" being needed as a coded warning about the prospects for future profits.
In this case, with a little luck, perhaps shareholders have suffered enough abuse and can be stirred to action.
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When the market takes a dive like it did in 2009, class-action lawyers face a much tougher task proving shareholders lost more money due to alleged fraud than they would have lost anyway.
Plaintiffs in this class action says BofA did its part by telling shareholders about possible claims coming from some investors but that it failed to inform them of the massive losses suffered by AIG.
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Hank Greenberg, a former CEO of AIG and a big shareholder is pursuing an action against the government for the dilution imposed on shareholders due to the bailout.
"Pursuing legal options is not a decision we take lightly, especially because of the longstanding partnerships we have established in Kuwait over the past decade, but PIC is in breach of contract, and we must take action to protect the interests of our company and our shareholders, " Dow Chemical Chief Executive Andrew Liveris said.
In the case of energy giant Enron, which went bust in 2001, shareholders managed to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements by filing class action suits.
The banking regulator, the finance ministry, the central bank and bank shareholders are howling in protest, and the bankers' federation is even threatening legal action.
Reid, addressing around 200 shareholders at the Glasgow club's annual meeting, said "bold, radical action" must be taken to combat "stories of lies, conspiracies and cover-ups" within Scottish football.
Every business decision and action taken within ZTE serves the Company's 140, 000 public shareholders on the Shenzhen and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges, including many of the world's leading institutional investors.
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The impact of both the Obama action and the Romney alternative on the auto workers, the unions, the shareholders, the debt holders, the tax payors, and the future viability of the auto companies and their ability to succeed in a competitive world need to be compared.
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As a benefit corporation, Big Bad Woof is protected from legal action if it makes decisions that aren't in the financial interests of its shareholders.
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