While the Canadian Securities Administrators’ (CSA) proposed changes to the hostile take-over bid regime have been discussed extensively in Canada, a series of similar legislative changes in France have received relatively little coverage. Although attained by different means, both changes
In yesterday’s Financial Post, Walied Soliman, a partner and co-chair of Norton Rose Fulbright’s Special Situations Team, reflected upon the contributions of Kirk Kerkorian, a pioneer of activist investment, stating that Kerkorian was “one of the originals who inspired many
The Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG) recently released its much anticipated policy paper on “proxy access”, a term which refers to shareholders’ conceptual right to nominate directors and have those nominees placed on management’s ballot. The CCGG takes the