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Boards’ Dilemma: The Compounding Problem Hidden in Share Buyback Execution Products

Reynolds Holding

As a capital allocation decision, share buybacks intersect all three of the main corporate finance activities of investing, financing, and dividends [1]. One of the deep-seated reasons for the splitting of opinion is that share buybacks transfer wealth between shareholders [2].

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First Advantage Reports Full Year and Fourth Quarter 2023 Results

Benzinga

million one-time special dividend payment, $59.0 Note: "NA" indicates not applicable information. "We were pleased with our performance for 2023 as we successfully navigated the uncertain macroeconomic environment and evolving labor market. Full Year 2023 Highlights 1 Revenues of $763.8 million Net Income of $37.3

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Skadden Discusses New SEC Pay-Versus-Performance Compliance & Disclosure Interpretations

Reynolds Holding

With respect to a registrant providing initial Pay versus Performance disclosure in its 2023 proxy statement for three years (as permitted by Instruction 1 to Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K), may the registrant present the peer group total shareholder return for each of the three years using the 2022 peer group? Answer: No.

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Skadden Discusses SEC’s Pay Versus Performance Disclosure Rules

Reynolds Holding

footnote disclosure to the table for any amounts deducted and added to total compensation of the NEOs to determine the amount of compensation “actually paid” (as described below) and certain related assumptions, as well as the name of each CEO and other NEO included in table for each year and the fiscal year for which they were included.

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Skadden Discusses SEC Guidance on Pay-Versus-Performance Disclosure

Reynolds Holding

Moreover, if PVP disclosure was required in a Form 10 (and its accompanying “information statement”), it would not be possible to complete column (f) of the PVP table with respect to the company’s total shareholder return (TSR), since the spin-off company would not have been publicly traded for any of the years covered by the PVP table.

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Wachtell Lipton Discusses How to Deal with Activist Investors

Reynolds Holding

Although poor economic or stock price performance can increase vulnerability, even companies that are respected industry leaders and have outperformed the market and their peers have been and are being attacked.

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

Reynolds Holding

As we have previously noted, regardless of industry, size, performance or “newness” to the public markets, no company should consider itself immune from activism. Even companies that are respected industry leaders and have outperformed the market and their peers have been, and are being, attacked.

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