Practical Law
Lessons from the 2015 Proxy Access Front
May 2015
Efforts by shareholders to directly influence corporate decision-making are intensifying, as demonstrated by the significant increase over the past three years in financially focused shareholder activism and the more recent efforts by large institutional shareholders to encourage directors to “engage” more directly.
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