Hints and tips:
...This year’s slate includes Kid Santa, Sherlock Santa and A Day With Santa....
...The power of the EGM was vividly illustrated last year when a boardroom crisis at the home fittings company Lixil forced shareholders to vote between competing slates of board nominees....
...Volpe, Managing Member of Volpe Investments LLC.Harry L. You, President, CFO and Director of GTY Technology Holdings Inc....
...M&G said: “Our sole interest is in raising the standards of corporate governance and we think by doing this we’ll improve the value of our holdings on behalf of our customers.”...
...Shanghai Film Group and Huahua Media recently struck a $1bn deal to co-finance Paramount Pictures’ slate of films for the next three years....
...That services model is also being pursued by Slate, the digital publisher owned by Graham Holdings....
...For instance, few houses can run a traditional client portfolio that also cleanly integrates “exotic” holdings such as futures, options, foreign securities, short positions and complex fixed income....
...Sony shareholders are scheduled to vote on a new slate of management-supported board members – a list that does not include Mr Loeb – at their meeting on Thursday....
...He said he would provide a $3.25bn bridge loan and Icahn Enterprises would offer a $2bn bridge loan, if necessary, if his slate of directors were elected....
...Qatar Holding, which has built up a near 12 per cent stake, has forced this change. The sovereign wealth fund has asked for 3.25 Glencore shares for each Xstrata share, versus the 2.8 offered....
...They added that Lachlan Murdoch, Mr Murdoch’s older son, currently chairman of Ten Network Holdings in Australia, could in time take a senior executive role in the publishing company....
...Roche has called on Illumina investors to support an alternative slate of directors for the board, with the two sides set for a showdown at Illumina’s shareholders’ meeting on April 18....
...Mr Loeb’s slate of directors also includes Harry Wilson, a US corporate turnaround specialist,and Michael Wolf, a media consultant and former chief operating officer at MTV Networks....
...The company’s slate for 2013 is packed with movies that could support a wide release as they feature the kind of A-list stars that will attract a big audience: Brad Pitt as a mob enforcer in Cogan’s Trade...
...Ms Berner arrived in 2007 after RDA was purchased by a group led by Ripplewood Holdings, a New York private equity firm, for $2.8bn....
...InBev will file a consent solicitation with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday to remove Anheuser’s entire 13-member board of directors and replace it with its own hand-picked slate....
...Eye-watering news from Alfred McAlpine, the construction group whose long-forgotten slate business has come back to bite it hard....
...Morgan Stanley and Petrie Parkman acted as Western’s financial advisors, while Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom served as its legal advisors....
...French video games maker Ubisoft rose 3.9 per cent to €32.90 following reports that it was holding talks with US rival Electronic Arts....
...Steyer, Founder and Senior Managing Member, Farallon Capital Management Stiritz, William P., Chairman, Ralcorp Holdings, Chairman, Energizer Holdings, Former CEO, Ralston Purina Lou Susman, Vice Chairman...
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