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ESG Task Force Brings First Case

Harvard Corporate Governance

a publicly traded (NYSE) Brazilian mining company and one of the world’s largest iron ore producers, charging that it made “false and misleading claims about the safety of its dams prior to the January 2019 collapse of its Brumadinho dam. debt markets.

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Exxon Mobil Reportedly Nearing $60B Megadeal To Buy Pioneer Natural Resources

Benzinga

The purchase of Pioneer, which has a market capitalization of around $50 billion, could be Exxon’s most significant deal since its 1999 merger with Mobil. oil industry’s most recent significant takeover — Occidental Petroleum’s 2019 acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum for about $38 billion.

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The Seven Samurai: How Big Tech Rescued the Market in 2023!

Musings on Markets

First, let's look at the performance of these seven stocks in 2023, when their collective market capitalization increased by a staggering $5.1 In terms of dollar value added, Microsoft and Apple each added a trillion dollars to their market capitalizations, during the year. trillion during the course of the year.

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Formula 1 in Las Vegas: The Race That Hopes You Don’t Sleep

Value Scope

has seen a significant increase since the debut of the Netflix series “Drive to Survive” in 2019. It’s current market capitalization is approximately $15 billion. By comparison, U.S. viewership averaged just over 1 million. F1 interest in the U.S. Average U.S. million in 2022. billion in 2016 by Liberty Media.

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Gibson Dunn Offers Annual Activism Update for 2021

Reynolds Holding

Suchlevels of activism are comparable to those found prior to the market disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, as reflected in public activist actions in 2019 (76 vs. 75), activist investors taking actions (48 vs. 49), and companies targeted by such actions (69 vs. 64). By the Numbers—2021 Public Activism Trends.

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Do Dual-Class Structures Help Stock Markets Attract Listings?

Reynolds Holding

Before the Chinese and Hong Kong reforms, from 2000 to 2019, 244 Chinese issuers floated on either the NYSE or NASDAQ through the issuance and trading of depository receipts; of these, 98 adopted a DCSS (40.2 As of December 31, 2019, 18 of these DCSS issuers were delisted (18.6 percent), compared with 79 delisted OSOV companies (56.0

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Good Intentions, Perverse Outcomes: The Impact of Impact Investing!

Musings on Markets

On the alternative energy front, as money has flowed into these companies, there has been a surge in enterprise value (equity and net debt) and market capitalization (equity value); I report both because impact investing can also take the form of green bonds, or debt, at these companies.