As the 2025 AGM season approaches, organizations should ensure the chair of the meeting is well-prepared on how to conduct a fair and orderly meeting.
Planning for your 2025 AGM: Tips for the chair
Should Shareholder Democracy Overrule Courts?
On January 4, 2024, the Court of Chancery of Delaware struck down the largest potential compensation plan in the history of public market – Elon Musk’s $55.8 billion compensation plan from Tesla. Can Musk override the Court’s decision with a
2023 Activism Recap
The 2023 proxy season was marked by a number of notable developments in the activism landscape. After a downturn in shareholder activism throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada experienced a resurgence in 2023 with a record number of activist campaigns. Activists
B.C. Securities Commission sets high threshold for finding parties to be “acting jointly or in concert”
Recently, the B.C. Securities Commission (the Commission) clarified the interpretation of “acting jointly or in concert” in the context of a proxy fight, setting a high bar for a finding of a joint actor relationship.
Unitholder Democracy Prevails in a “Good Hard Look” at Board Decision Making
On February 1, 2023, our Special Situations team successfully obtained an order from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) requiring that
Canada’s new “modern slavery” legislation: impact on shareholder activism
Government institutions and businesses in Canada must soon comply with new legislation aimed at combatting forced labour and child labour or “modern slavery”. Bill S-211, an Act to enact the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply
Putting the “green” in green investing
The past several years have seen “green investing” rise to prominence. In 2020, environmental, social and governance (ESG) funds captured $51.1 billion of net new capital from investors, a fifth consecutive annual record. At the same time, companies
ESG & Shareholder Activism: Ready or Not, Here it Comes
“ESG” stands for Environmental, Social and Governance and describes a handful of criteria used by both issuers and investors to focus on a corporation’s impact and activity regarding topics like environmental protection, climate change, support for the local and global
Social Media and the Retail Investor: A Regulator’s Dilemma
With the growing accessibility of “do-it-yourself” investment technology, it should come as no surprise that retail investing has been on the rise. In fact, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) recently published a study (the Study) which reveals
A Recap of the OSC Decision on the Minimum Tender Requirement under the New Canadian Takeover Bid Regime
On February 23, 2021, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) released its reasons in ESW Capital, LLC, 2021 ONSEC 7 (the ESW Decision), in which the OSC considered the availability of an exemption from the minimum tender