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Activist Settlements: Fiduciary Questions for Boards

Harvard Corporate Governance

Boards often settle actual or threatened proxy fights by trading away board seats to activists. Delaware courts will analyze this trade as a defensive device, much like greenmail, where the board trades away something valuable to avoid a battle for corporate control. This defines the short-term threat.

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“Dumb Money” Review: A Worthy Addition to the Classic Finance Movie Roster?

Brian DeChesare

And that is exactly what happened when I watched Dumb Money , the movie about the GameStop short squeeze in 2021 , the other day. Everyone was locked up inside, and many turned to day trading for entertainment and money (in between binge-watching shows on streaming services). I wrote many articles about it.

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How to Buy Shareholder Votes

Reynolds Holding

What remains is the interesting and potentially compelling idea that activists can compensate shareholders in a portfolio company for their votes. SVE Promoted a Clever Idea For a moment in time, SVE created a marketplace where shareholders can sell their votes in a company without selling the underlying shares. Is This Even Legal?

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Convertible Arbitrage Hedge Funds: The Perfect Combination of Investment Banking and Sales & Trading?

Brian DeChesare

Traditionally, if someone asked the “ sales & trading vs. investment banking ” question, the response was easy: “Do banking unless you really, really like trading and could not imagine doing anything else.”. A Simple Example of a Convertible Arbitrage Trade. 5:23: Part 2: Which Companies Issue Convertible Bonds?

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Acquisitions Often Fail. So Are They Worth the Risk?

M&A Leadership Council

First, if investors sell the company’s stock, short it, or simply don’t trade it at all, stock price and/or volume might suffer, making any attempts to access the equity capital markets more dilutive. One early proponent of this idea—perhaps the originator—was Albert S. Even “one-offs”?

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How Earnings Announcements Discipline Markets Skewed by Media Coverage

Reynolds Holding

In particular, some investors are more interested in predicting short-term price movements than focusing on traditional valuation models. Some of these short-term investors may be willing to temporarily deviate from fundamentals to gain returns based on their short-term price predictions.

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Commissioner Peirce Blasts SEC for Lack of Public Engagement

Reynolds Holding

One manifestation is the way rules are made these days: very broad proposals, unreasonably short public comment periods, pared back final rules with substantial elements on which the public has not commented, and little SEC engagement in implementation discussions. New product ideas? well, crickets. That permission was very limited.”