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SpaceX IPO To Give Elon Musk More Power In Company, Curb Shareholder Rights
SpaceX's IPO registration statement sharply limits investor's ability to challenge management, sue in court and force votes on governance issues.
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Byju's Gets Majority Of Shareholders' Approval For $200 Million Rights Issue
The majority of shareholders of edtech firm Think and Learn, owner of Byju's brand, have approved the company's resolution to increase its authorised share capital to absorb USD 200 million raised through the rights issue, a statement said on Monday.
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Putin Seizes Rights To St. Petersburg Airport From Foreign Investors
President Vladimir Putin ordered the transfer of rights to managing Russia's second-busiest airport from foreign shareholders that include Germany's Fraport AG and the Qatari wealth fund by shifting their stakes into a new domestic entity.
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Amazon Faces Challenges Over Policies at Shareholder Meeting, Investors to Review Workers’ Rights, Social Issues
Amazon faces 14 investor resolutions challenging its policies at the annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday. This has been a record challenge for the retail and cloud computing company. The investors will review workers’ rights, their health and safety, Amazon's use of plastic or changes to the company's process for board nominations.
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Elon Musk Deals Twitter a Wild Card as Shareholders Seek Reforms
Elon Musk, Twitter's newest big shareholder, could alter the course of the social media company as management battles a set of proxy proposals focused on topics from civil rights to politics at its upcoming annual meeting, shareholder activists, and corporate governance experts said.
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Apple Investors Urge Company to Undergo Civil Rights Audit Over Treatment of Female, Minority Employees
Apple's shareholders have approved a proposal urging the iPhone maker to undergo an independent audit assessing its treatment of female and minority employees, delivering a rare rebuke to a management team that runs the world's most valuable company.
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Toshiba Shareholders Oust Board Chair After Probe Reveals Sway Voting Bid
Toshiba shareholders on Friday rejected the reappointment of board chair Osamu Nagayama in a rebuke to management after revelations of attempts to sway voting on activist investor proposals.
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WeWork Directors Seek to Preserve Right to Sue Owner SoftBank
It is the latest salvo in a heated legal dispute between the two sides. WeWork's special committee, which represents minority shareholders in the company including its co-founder Adam Neumann, is contesting SoftBank's decision to walk away from the tender offer agreed last year.
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Mercedes F1 Boss Wolff Takes A Stake In Aston Martin
Mercedes Formula One boss Toto Wolff has taken a stake in British sportscar maker Aston Martin, whose executive chairman Lawrence Stroll runs the Racing Point F1 team, according to company filings. A Mercedes F1 spokesman said Wolff's move was purely an investment on the Austrian's part and would be diluted by a rights issue on Monday from 4.77% to...
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Billionaire Lawrence Stroll Takes Stake In Ailing Carmaker Aston Martin
The company will raise a total of 500 million pounds, including a rights issue from existing major shareholders, it said on Friday, as it begins building its first SUV.
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Some Facebook Investors Want to Remove Mark Zuckerberg as Chairman
Four major US public funds that hold shares in Facebook Inc on Wednesday proposed removing Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg as chairman following several high-profile scandals.
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Salient features of the new Companies Bill passed by Parliament
The legislation strengthens accounting standards and shareholder rights, and makes it mandatory for companies with market capitalisation of more than Rs. 500 crore to spend 2 per cent of their annual net profits on corporate social responsibility (CSR), such as social work or charity.
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Companies Bill passed by Parliament, focus on shareholders' rights and CSR
Parliament has passed a new bill which is the first major overhaul of company law in more than 50 years.
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Dell rejects request for info leading to buyout
Dell has rejected a request from a shareholder rights group seeking to review the internal information that led to a proposed $24.4 billion sale.
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SpaceX IPO To Give Elon Musk More Power In Company, Curb Shareholder Rights
SpaceX's IPO registration statement sharply limits investor's ability to challenge management, sue in court and force votes on governance issues.
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Byju's Gets Majority Of Shareholders' Approval For $200 Million Rights Issue
The majority of shareholders of edtech firm Think and Learn, owner of Byju's brand, have approved the company's resolution to increase its authorised share capital to absorb USD 200 million raised through the rights issue, a statement said on Monday.
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Putin Seizes Rights To St. Petersburg Airport From Foreign Investors
President Vladimir Putin ordered the transfer of rights to managing Russia's second-busiest airport from foreign shareholders that include Germany's Fraport AG and the Qatari wealth fund by shifting their stakes into a new domestic entity.
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Amazon Faces Challenges Over Policies at Shareholder Meeting, Investors to Review Workers’ Rights, Social Issues
Amazon faces 14 investor resolutions challenging its policies at the annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday. This has been a record challenge for the retail and cloud computing company. The investors will review workers’ rights, their health and safety, Amazon's use of plastic or changes to the company's process for board nominations.
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Elon Musk Deals Twitter a Wild Card as Shareholders Seek Reforms
Elon Musk, Twitter's newest big shareholder, could alter the course of the social media company as management battles a set of proxy proposals focused on topics from civil rights to politics at its upcoming annual meeting, shareholder activists, and corporate governance experts said.
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Apple Investors Urge Company to Undergo Civil Rights Audit Over Treatment of Female, Minority Employees
Apple's shareholders have approved a proposal urging the iPhone maker to undergo an independent audit assessing its treatment of female and minority employees, delivering a rare rebuke to a management team that runs the world's most valuable company.
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Toshiba Shareholders Oust Board Chair After Probe Reveals Sway Voting Bid
Toshiba shareholders on Friday rejected the reappointment of board chair Osamu Nagayama in a rebuke to management after revelations of attempts to sway voting on activist investor proposals.
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WeWork Directors Seek to Preserve Right to Sue Owner SoftBank
It is the latest salvo in a heated legal dispute between the two sides. WeWork's special committee, which represents minority shareholders in the company including its co-founder Adam Neumann, is contesting SoftBank's decision to walk away from the tender offer agreed last year.
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Mercedes F1 Boss Wolff Takes A Stake In Aston Martin
Mercedes Formula One boss Toto Wolff has taken a stake in British sportscar maker Aston Martin, whose executive chairman Lawrence Stroll runs the Racing Point F1 team, according to company filings. A Mercedes F1 spokesman said Wolff's move was purely an investment on the Austrian's part and would be diluted by a rights issue on Monday from 4.77% to...
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Billionaire Lawrence Stroll Takes Stake In Ailing Carmaker Aston Martin
The company will raise a total of 500 million pounds, including a rights issue from existing major shareholders, it said on Friday, as it begins building its first SUV.
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Some Facebook Investors Want to Remove Mark Zuckerberg as Chairman
Four major US public funds that hold shares in Facebook Inc on Wednesday proposed removing Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg as chairman following several high-profile scandals.
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Salient features of the new Companies Bill passed by Parliament
The legislation strengthens accounting standards and shareholder rights, and makes it mandatory for companies with market capitalisation of more than Rs. 500 crore to spend 2 per cent of their annual net profits on corporate social responsibility (CSR), such as social work or charity.
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Companies Bill passed by Parliament, focus on shareholders' rights and CSR
Parliament has passed a new bill which is the first major overhaul of company law in more than 50 years.
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Dell rejects request for info leading to buyout
Dell has rejected a request from a shareholder rights group seeking to review the internal information that led to a proposed $24.4 billion sale.
