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Murder on the City Express – Who is Killing the London Stock Exchange’s Equity Market?

Harvard Corporate Governance

As private corporations have found it easier in recent years to raise capital from the private markets, the number of public firms listed on U.S. Why tap public investors for finance, and become exposed to burdensome regulation and the vicissitudes of the public markets, when growth can be sustained with private capital?

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Dissecting the Long-Term Performance of the Chinese Stock Market

Harvard Corporate Governance

The Chinese stock market started in 1990 with the establishment of two domestic stock exchanges (the “A share” market): the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE hereafter) and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE). The A share market is the second largest in the world in terms of total market capitalization, trailing only the US equity markets.

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Do Activists Beat the Market?

Harvard Corporate Governance

Posted by Mary Ann Deignan, Rich Thomas, and Kathryn Night, Lazard, on Tuesday, August 1, 2023 Editor's Note: Mary Ann Deignan is Head of Capital Markets Advisory, and Rich Thomas and Kathryn Night are Managing Directors in the Capital Markets Advisory group at Lazard. individuals, private equity funds, family offices).

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Chancery Invalidates Elon Musk’s $55.8 Billion Equity Compensation Package

Harvard Corporate Governance

3] The Grant On January 21, 2018, Tesla’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) [4] unanimously approved the Grant, which would vest based on Tesla’s achievement of certain market capitalization goals, as well as operational milestones related to revenue and adjusted EBITDA targets. The process arrived at an unfair price.” [3]

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

Musings on Markets

I was planning to finish my last two data updates for 2024, but decided to take a break and look at the seven stocks (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla) which carried the market in 2023. In terms of dollar value added, Microsoft and Apple each added a trillion dollars to their market capitalizations, during the year.

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Tornetta v. Musk: Post-Trial Opinion

Harvard Corporate Governance

s directors breached their fiduciary duties by awarding Elon Musk a performance-based equity-compensation plan. For a tranche to vest, Tesla’s market capitalization must increase by $50 billion and Tesla must achieve either an adjusted EBITDA target or a revenue target in four consecutive fiscal quarters. With a $55.8

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An Early Look at 2023 CEO & CFO Pay Actions

Harvard Corporate Governance

billion and median market capitalization of $7.0 This post investigates compensation actions for CEOs and CFOs at S&P 1500 companies that have fiscal year ends between 9/30 and 11/30. The sample consists of fifty cross-industry companies with median revenue of $4.6 incentive compensation) slightly lower for CFOs (more…)

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