SoftBank Vision Fund's head, Rajeev Misra, saw his total pay for the past business year more than double to 1.6 billion yen ($15 million), even as the fund's underperformance pushed SoftBank to a record $13 billion operating loss...
NEW YORK — JPMorgan Chase & Co shareholders voted to reelect each of the bank's board members, with each director receiving at least 84% of the shares voted, according to initial tallies...
SEOUL — Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee's vow to end dynastic succession at South Korea's biggest conglomerate following three generations of Lee family control sparked skepticism on Thursday...
The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, which her husband runs, changed compensation terms to give Kelly Loeffler, a top executive, awards worth millions of dollars as she left for Congress...
BOSTON — Tegna shareholders re-elected all 12 directors to the U.S. regional TV station operator's board, handing victory to management and ending a months-long proxy contest with hedge fund Standard General, which had sought to replace four board members...
BOSTON — Two influential proxy advisory firms said Dine Brands Global Inc shareholders should reject a proposal to spin off its IHOP pancake house chain in a rebuke to activist investment firm JCP Investment Partnership which proposed the plan...
An investor group that owns almost one-quarter of GCP Applied Technologies is backing activist investor Starboard Value's plan to remove most of the chemical company's current board members, arguing the committee is not making the best decisions for the company or shareholders...
FRANKFURT — Bayer on Tuesday faces its second annual investor reckoning over its handling of a wave of U.S. lawsuits claiming its glyphosate-based weedkillers cause cancer...
Most activist shareholders have refrained from challenging the boards of U.S. companies during this season of annual shareholder meetings, as businesses reel from the economic fallout of the coronavirus outbreak...
When we cautiously return to normalcy, there will be a natural tendency to play the blame game about the reality that our economic system was not well positioned to absorb the effects of the pandemic without an enormous corporate bailout...
BOSTON — Starboard Value has nominated six directors to the board at Commvault, setting the stage for a second battle in two years between the U.S. data protection and data management software company and an activist hedge fund...
The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based chemical company is striking back at activist investor Starboard Value hours after the hedge fund announced on Thursday that it will push forward with its proxy fight and nominated eight directors...
BOSTON — Several investors who push management to perform better are trying to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in new cash to buy stakes in companies beaten down by a historic market selloff, four people familiar with their plans said on Tuesday...
BOSTON — Large U.S. companies accused of overpaying their chief executives faced few critical proxy votes from top index fund firms last year, a new report found on Tuesday, even as other asset managers got tougher with their ballots...
Berkshire Hathaway hasn’t done a big deal in years, as Warren Buffett explains in his latest annual letter to shareholders. Even so, he’s happy with his track record...
After a career spent working on “very important backup plans,” Steve Mollenkopf has steered Qualcomm through one rough patch after another...
A last-ditch attempt by a coalition of state attorneys general is said to have failed to halt T-Mobile’s purchase of a smaller rival...
(Reuters) - Bank of America Corp kept Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan's 2019 compensation flat at $26.5 million, according a filing on Friday...
Brian Chesky, Airbnb’s co-founder and C.E.O., spoke exclusively to Andrew last night about the company’s announcement today that it will think about all “stakeholders” when it comes to corporate governance, not just investors...
SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk is coming close to earning the first $346 million tranche of options in a record-breaking pay package, after the electric vehicle maker's stock more than doubled in the last three months...
When somebody offers something for nothing, I don’t cheer. I reach in my pocket to see if my wallet is still there. So when a prominent C.E.O. lobbying group said over the summer that making profits for shareholders was only part of their business — and not necessarily the main part — I was skeptical, to say the least...
(Reuters) - Activist fund Crystal Amber more than doubled its stake in De La Rue Plc, days after the banknote and printer warned of "significant doubt" that it can continue as a going concern and said it would scrap its dividend to tackle mounting debt...
BOSTON — As U.S. corporate jet use approaches pre-financial crisis levels and chief executives take an increasing number of personal trips on the company tab, many investors are being kept in the dark about the true cost of the perk...
Tom Barrack, the C.E.O. of Colony Capital and the chairman of President Trump’s inaugural committee, is being pressed by an activist investor to resign, DealBook has exclusively learned...