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Say on Pay Around the World
(Washington University Law Review, 2015)
Shareholders have long complained that top executives are overpaid by corporate directors irrespective of their performance. Largely powerless to stop these practices, in 2002, they prevailed upon the U.K. Parliament to ...
ISS Recommendations and Mutual Fund Voting on Proxy Proposals
(Villanova Law Review, 2010)
This article analyzes mutual fund voting data from 2003-2008, the first
five proxy seasons for which this data is available, and seeks to identify
the extent to which mutual funds vote consistently with the voting ...
Lying and Getting Caught: An Empirical Study of the Effect of Securities Class Action Settlements on Targeted Firms
(University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2010)
The ongoing Great Recession has triggered numerous proposals to improve the regulation of financial markets and, most importantly, the regulation of organizations such as credit rating agencies, underwriters, hedge funds, ...
Customizing Employment Arbitration
(Iowa Law Review, 2012)
According to the dispute resolution literature, one advantage of arbitration over litigation is that arbitration enables the parties to customize their dispute resolution procedures. For example, parties can choose the ...
Selectica Resets the Trigger on the Poison Pill: Where Should the Delaware Courts Go Next?
(Indiana Law Journal, 2012)
Since their invention in 1982, shareholder rights plans have been the subject of intense controversy. Rights plans, or as they are known more pejoratively “poison pills,” enable a target board to “poison” a takeover attempt ...
Dodd-Frank's Say on Pay: Will It Lead to a Greater Role for Shareholders in Corporate Governance?
(Cornell Law Review, 2012)
"Say on pay" gives shareholders an advisory vote on a company's pay practices for its top executives. Beginning in 2011, Dodd-Frank mandated such votes at public companies. The first year of "say on pay" under the new ...
Shareholder Voting in an Age of Intermediary Capitalism
(Southern California Law Review, 2014)
Shareholder voting is a key part of contemporary American corporate governance. As numerous contemporary battles between corporate management and shareholders illustrate, voting has never been more important. Yet, traditional ...
Customizing Employment Arbitration
(Iowa Law Review, 2012)
According to the dispute resolution literature, one advantage of arbitration over litigation is that arbitration enables the parties to customize their dispute resolution procedures. For example, parties can choose the ...
What Should We Do About Multijurisdictional Litigation in M&A Deals?
(Vanderbilt Law Review, 2013)
Many M&A transactions attract shareholder litigation challenging the fairness of the economic terms of the deal for the target shareholders. Since the end of the financial crisis, however, there has been a documented ...
Should New Zealand Adopt Say on Pay?
(New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, 2013)
Around the globe, the latest fashion in corporate governance circles is "Say on Pay," a shareholder vote – sometimes precatory, other times mandatory – on CEO remuneration. Country after country has adopted Say on Pay in ...