I’m glad to see Lawrence Hamermesh and I are moving past the “bullet” stage in our discussions on proxy access towards a real dialogue. Although he is no longer calling on boards to ignore the voting results of precatory (more…)
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Why Precatory Proxy Access Proposals?
James McRitchie, 11/21/2011 ,
The respected scholar, Lawrence Hamermesh, writes about the model proxy access proposal published by United States Proxy Exchange (USPX) and asks why an organization whose motto (”Populus Constituit,” the people decide) is so reluctant to file mandatory bylaw proposals, instead of precatory proposals. (Precatory proxy access proposals, The Institute of Delaware corporate and Business Law, 11/15/2011) Hamermesh speculates USPX […]
Shareowners Too Busy But Hamermesh Offers Wrong Solutions
James McRitchie, 09/28/2011 ,
Lawrence A. Hamermesh, Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, Delaware gave the Keynote Speech to the Practical Law Institute’s Ninth Annual Directors’ Institute on Corporate Governance on September 7, 2011. In Too Busy to Think, Spread Too Thin to Matter: Making a Rational Stockholder Voting System an Agenda Item for Management/Investor Dialogue, he runs over […]