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...Walt Disney chief executive Bob Iger has won the backing of influential proxy adviser Glass Lewis in his battle against billionaire activist Nelson Peltz, with the group unconvinced that the latter’s plans...
...ISS’s recommendations diverge from fellow proxy adviser Glass Lewis, which earlier this week backed all of Disney’s board nominees....
...The contest split influential proxy advisers, with Glass Lewis recommending shareholders back Disney, while ISS recommended adding Peltz to the board....
...Disney makes a meal out of Nelson Peltz’s lunch with the FT Nelson Peltz, the billionaire investor who made his fortune as co-founder of Trian Partners, recently sat down with the FT’s Harriet Agnew for...
...At lunch as in business, Nelson Peltz makes his preferences known....
...Glass Lewis, another advisory firm, endorsed Iger and the current board. Blackwells Capital, the second activist, has put up its own slate of three directors for the board....
...Shareholders don’t want Nelson Peltz to restore Disney’s magic....
...Disney has defeated a challenge to its board from activist investor Nelson Peltz “by a substantial margin”....
...Bankman-Fried continues to “live a life of delusion”, he wrote to the judge, Lewis Kaplan....
...The World of Work UK retail bellwether John Lewis said it would publish job interview questions online to make the process less daunting for applicants....
...The battle for Middle England John Lewis and M&S are courting the same middle-class customers. They are having differing levels of success, the FT’s Laura Onita writes....
...Godzilla: The latest film in the monster series can be seen as an allegory that lets Japan move on from past traumas, writes Leo Lewis....
...Activism has historically been dominated by the likes of Carl Icahn and Trian Partners’ Nelson Peltz — both of whom turned to old-school tactics and launched boardroom battles at gene sequencing company...
...The management change comes after the consumer goods group became a target for activist investor Nelson Peltz....
...Five unmissable stories this week Activist investor Nelson Peltz, the co-founder of Trian Fund Management, has warned that First Republic may not be the last regional US bank to fail as he renewed calls...
...Morgan, Lewis & BockiusO: 7; L: 7 I: 7; Total: 21After the US Supreme Court struck down Roe vs Wade, which had enshrined the constitutional right to abortion since 1973, the firm established a task force...
...“There remains some nostalgia for Dave Lewis,” said Samuel Johar, chair of headhunters Buchanan Harvey, referring to the former Tesco chief executive, who was previously at Unilever....
...You know, having run John Lewis, he’s an enormous successful, you know, high street retailer, a mutual kind of a symbol of the things that are good about Britain, British business in a way....
...Hellmann’s mayonnaise has turned to the 51-year-old head of a Dutch dairy co-operative to succeed Alan Jope, after strategic missteps and financial underperformance made it a target for activist investor Nelson...
...Nelson Mullins Riley & ScarboroughO: 7; L: 6; I: 6; Total: 19The firm’s “transformation enablement” consulting service helps companies with outsourcing and finding the right external provider....
...Lewis had been backed by some shareholders, a person with knowledge of the process told the FT....
...Republicans target proxy advisers in ESG backlash Republican state attorneys-general in the US have taken aim at corporate proxy advisers, challenging Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis over...
...However, Lewis this year became chair of Haleon, the consumer health group spun off from GSK that Jope had attempted to buy....
...But that’s what Disney did in a presentation to shareholders on Tuesday as it tried to fight off Nelson Peltz, the activist investor who blames the $71bn acquisition of 20th Century Fox from Rupert Murdoch...
...Highlights include Andris Nelsons conducting nine programmes, Beethoven’s piano concertos with Paul Lewis, a clutch of premieres and two operas in concert, Mozart’s Don Giovanni and George Benjamin’s Lessons...
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