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Corporate governance

  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    The Big Read
    The battle over who makes the rules for US companies

    Lawyers, judges and legislators are locked in a war of words in Delaware, the legal home of more corporations than any other state

  • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
    JD.com
    JD.com’s founder ‘still running’ ecommerce group from overseas

    Despite stepping down as chief in 2022, Richard Liu has continued to quietly steer the business from London

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  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Tesla Inc
    Tesla attempt to save Elon Musk’s $56bn pay package gets sceptical reception

    Delaware judge is considering whether a shareholder vote should override her decision invalidating record award

  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Succession lessons of the Murdochs’ dynastic drama

    Why getting generational handovers right matters to more than just the family

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  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    Starbucks Corp
    The private jet and a $26mn olive oil deal that bind Howard Schultz to Starbucks

    Governance questions have become more pressing as the coffee chain’s challenges have proliferated

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  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    Starbucks Corp
    Schultz opposes Starbucks settlement with activist investor Elliott

    Coffee chain’s three-time leader has publicly criticised its current management

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  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Inside BusinessChristian Davies
    Seoul push to end ‘the Korean discount’ hits a snag

    Critics of a Doosan group restructuring argue the country needs a fiduciary duty standard for shareholders

    Seoul city skyline
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    UK economy
    Labour’s economic safety net: a new audit regulator and no more bank bailouts

    King’s Speech sets out government’s measures to help bolster British economy

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  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    UK financial regulation
    UK announces biggest overhaul of listings regime in decades

    A win for venture capital firms and sovereign wealth funds as they will be allowed to hold ‘supervoting’ shares

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  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Markets InsightCharles Elson
    Delaware is jettisoning its traditional approach of protecting investors

    Cherished neutrality and circumspection of state’s legal framework will be sacrificed if new legislation is enacted

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  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    ESG investing
    Proxy season results show support for ESG efforts continues to ebb

    Only two climate-related proposals received majority support this year, and no diversity initiative cleared 50%

    ExxonMobil sign at a petrol station
  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
    Inside BusinessThomas Hale
    Being a director in China has just become much tougher

    Changes to company law impose new liabilities for those taking on the role

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  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    Inside BusinessAnjli Raval
    Is being a multi-CEO more trouble than it’s worth?

    New research bares the risks of an individual taking on more than one top executive role

    Carlos Ghosn
  • Monday, 24 June, 2024
    UK equities
    UK listing reform is too important to be stalled by small stakeholders

    Dual-class struggles

  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    Corporate law changes in Delaware would favour big shareholders

    US state’s status as premiere corporate home in flux as companies and shareholders disagree over board powers

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Toyota Motor Corp
    Toyota shareholders re-elect chair amid governance concerns

    Akio Toyoda wins support at annual meeting on back of strong financial performance at world’s best-selling carmaker

    Close-up of Akio Toyoda
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Special ReportBusiness Education: Financial Training
    Business school teaching case study: executive pay and shareholder democracy

    Prof Winfried Ruigrok of St Gallen university examines the contentious issue of CEO remuneration

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  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    LexTesla Inc
    Tesla shareholders will have no one to blame if things go south Premium content

    A solid majority has said that they are fine with giving Elon Musk his shares

  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Tesla Inc
    Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk’s record pay deal and move to Texas

    Vote a vindication for head of electric-car maker following Delaware court ruling that struck down 2018 package

    Elon Musk
  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    Tesla Inc
    Why the Tesla shareholder vote won’t be the end of Musk’s Delaware fight

    A dispute over CEO’s record pay package has rattled the corporate bar — and it could be heading for uncharted legal territory

    Montage of Elon Musk, a Tesla logo and exterior of Delaware’s Court of Chancery building
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Luxury goods
    Bernard Arnault names son Frédéric as head of LVMH family holding group

    Promotion for French billionaire’s second-youngest child follows his appointment as head of watches unit

    Frédéric Arnault and his father Bernard
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    US & Canadian companies
    The Proxies 2024: A celebration of substantial corporate perks

    Top of the perks

  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    THG PLC
    Matt Moulding’s recursive activism

    What’s he up to? We don’t know, but perhaps you do

  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Tesla Inc
    Tesla investors should reject Musk’s $56bn pay, says proxy adviser ISS

    Institutional Shareholder Services supports proposal to reincorporate electric-car maker in Texas

    Elon Musk, centre, walks outside with his security detail in Washington
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Special ReportImpact Investing
    Investors widen focus to business models in assessing ESG impact

    Public benefit corporations can help mitigate the risk of a company losing its way as it grows or is taken over

    Close-up of a black fabric texture on a Patagonia jacket with a detailed view of a zipper and the brand’s logo patch which features a colorful mountain range design
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