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...Goldfarb, founder of proxy solicitation firm Okapi Partners....
...Goldfarb, founder of proxy solicitation firm Okapi Partners, which is working on behalf of the SOC....
...“Certainly for the companies the lack of transparency is problematic,” said Bruce Goldfarb, chief executive of the firm, which is often employed to drum up support during an activist campaign....
...The proxy voting system, where shareholders elect board members and get a say on other contentious issues, is “complicated, somewhat arcane and . . . out of sync with modern technology,” said Bruce Goldfarb...
...Bruce Goldfarb, founder of Okapi Partners, which helps drum up support during proxy campaigns, said that while the number of proxy fights was down, last year was one of the “busiest for shareholder activism...
...“You do need to foster cultural awareness into your campaign because you want support from local investors as well as the international ones,” says Bruce Goldfarb, founder of Okapi Partners, an adviser to...
...Goldfarb, chief executive of Okapi Partners....
...“Financial institutions don’t make easy targets,” said Bruce Goldfarb of Okapi Partners, a proxy solicitation firm. “They’re highly regulated and have broad shareholder bases....
...“[Depressed share prices] make it hard for buyers and sellers to reach agreements on valuations,” said Bruce Goldfarb, chief executive of Okapi Partners, which advises on hostiles....
...“Activism against very large-cap companies is still hard,” says Bruce Goldfarb of Okapi Partners, which advises investors pushing for change....
...Bruce Goldfarb, a managing director at Georgeson, said: “We have seen the emergence of hedge funds as agents of change in the past year.”...
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