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Wachtell Lipton Discusses How to Deal with Activist Investors

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Meanwhile, companies with robust balance sheets continue to face calls to return more cash to investors in the form of buybacks and special dividends. Although the political backlash against some of these issues may require walking a narrow path, these issues remain important to most of the large institutional investors.

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Wachtell Lipton on Dealing with Activist Hedge Funds and Other Activist Investors

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Traditional activism, focused on short-term profit, stock price and total shareholder return (TSR), continues alongside a new form of activism emphasizing climate and other environmental, employee/human capital, social and governance (ESG) considerations.

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