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Glass Lewis Proxy Paper Guidelines: Updates for 2015

By The Special Situations Team on January 13, 2015

Yesterday, Glass, Lewis & Co., LLC (Glass Lewis) released a new version of its Proxy Paper Guidelines (the Guidelines) (updated as of December 30, 2014), previously released on November 5, 2014.

Key changes in the 2015 Guidelines as compared to…

Defensive Tools in Shareholder Activism: The “Voting Pill”

By The Special Situations Team on October 27, 2014

In today’s Financial Post,  Barbara Shecter highlighted the use of modified shareholder rights plans (colloquially known as “poison pills”) as an emerging defensive tool against opportunistic shareholder activism in Canada.  Traditionally, poison pills are used by boards of target…

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