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The (Geo)Politics of Controlling Shareholders

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sanctions against Oleg Deripaska in 2016 were lifted when he gave up control over major aluminum producer Rusal, despite the fact that he retained a significant stake in En+, Rusal’s controlling shareholder. For example, U.S. 1641, 1663-64 (2006). [5] forthcoming). This post comes to us from Professor Curtis J.

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Cooley Discusses SEC Charges Against Director for Failing to Disclose Lack of Independence

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SideBar Similar issues have come up in connection with auditor independence as well, as discussed in this order from 2016. As it turned out, Leaf’s CEO was on that company’s board and comp committee, thus creating a comp committee interlock.

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ESG A Valuation Framework

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We used the client’s residential customer database with 15-minute interval data for the years 2014, 2015, and 2016. There are also methods to use Beta to assess a private company, if the Guideline Public Companies selected for the analysis, the “comps,” are chose properly. In this case, the task was to study the energy e?ciency