Question: Do you support granting shareholders the right to determine executive compensation?
Because the share sale is relatively small, Deutsche Bank doesn't need to offer all existing shareholders the right to participate, a potentially costly and complex process that executives were eager to avoid.
For every 200 shares of TCI, shareholders get the right to swap 16 shares of TCI for 1 share of Liberty.
We stress the word should only because it is not apparent that shareholders have the right team on the bus today.
From a legal perspective, corporate shareholders have the right to elect managers, oversee corporate strategy, and serve as the final arbiters of critical questions affecting their company.
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If a company truly has excess cash on its balance sheet that is not needed to fund future profitable projects, then distributing it to shareholders is the right thing to do.
Although the company's base and its board are firmly British, and the government has the power to veto foreign shareholders, Mr Hoon was right in that a majority of its shareholders are American.
The shareholder part of the bill is fairly straightforward: shareholders will have the right to vote each year on the compensation packages and any golden parachutes of senior executives.
"We think we're doing the right thing for shareholders, " says Steiner.
Mr Kozlowski can, however, take comfort from the fact that he will have done right by his shareholders, if he is correct in estimating that Tyco would be worth 50% more in bits than whole.
If you look at business as a communal effort where everyone is always trying to do right by the shareholders then the mere existence, let along the common employment of, management consultants is really rather strange.
That moment will come when all the auguries are right--when shareholders are happy with growing share prices and the objects of desire are still bargains.
"If someone comes in and makes an offer that makes sense, our board has shown that we are willing to do the right thing for our shareholders, " Griffin said.
"There are still a number of uncertainties out there to work through, and we will do what we need to do to bring the result to the right conclusion for the shareholders, " Mr. Mandl said.
Right to the end, shareholders' money was more welcome than their views.
Shareholders of common stock would flex their right to inspect the books, and even bring suit on behalf of the corporation if such McCourt transactions were consummated.
Under all scenarios, Sprint has a right to a vote by minority shareholders in which it faces an uncertain outcome with or without Ergen.
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Merge might not be the right word as the creditors and shareholders of American Airways will end up owning 72% of the combined company.
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Killinger, 58, and the company's CEO since 1990, is battling a coalition of unions that are demanding the ouster of two board members and asking tough questions about whether WaMu (nyse: WM - news - people ) took the right steps early enough to protect shareholders from a downturn in the mortgage markets.
There's the Railtrack annual general meeting in a couple of weeks' time and no doubt the shareholders will express their view and that's right and proper.
He can do whatever he wants at Patagonia right now, with no threat of shareholders revolting if he sacrifices a bit of profit in the name of menschy communitarianism.
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Following the preliminary ruling by US District Judge Richard Sullivan in New York, Apple has dropped plans to ask shareholders to vote on whether to abolish a contractual right that the company currently enjoys to issue such preference shares without limit.
Giving it to the shareholders is the obvious answer, but not necessarily the right one.
Doing the right thing means three things: looking after your shareholders, looking after your customers, and looking after your people.
Unlike companies' shareholders, charities' donors usually have no voting rights and no right to attend annual meetings and question the bosses.
This week, America's Securities and Exchange Commission took steps in the right direction by proposing an increase in the power of shareholders to nominate and appoint directors.
Major venture capital shareholders in Kayak were General Catalyst Partners with 27.06% right after the IPO, Sequoia Capital with 16.31%, Accel Partners with 13.99 and Oak Investment Partners with 10.6%.
Apple's board already has the right to issue preferred stock, but it is asking shareholders at its annual meeting later this month to vote on a proposal that would require shareholder approval to issue preferred stock.
Moreover, they would get this right only in the year after either a majority of shareholders had voted for a resolution demanding it or if at least 35% of votes were withheld from any director on the official proxy.
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Apple shareholders could still be in for more rough times if technical strategists are right.
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