Coast Capital might have been wrong to call on FirstGroup to restore its dividend, but it is absolutely right to seek a swifter exit from U.K. railroads...
WILMINGTON, Del., June 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Corteva, Inc. (NYSE: CTVA) announced today that Marcos Lutz, chief executive officer of Cosan Limited, has been elected to Corteva's Board of Directors, effective June 25, 2019. He will serve on the Audit and People and Compensation committees of the Board...
MANITOWOC, Wisc., June 25, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- County Bancorp, Inc. (ICBK), announced the addition of Patrick Roe and Jacob Eisen to its Board of Directors. Both will also serve on the Board of Directors of Investors Community Bank (ICB), a wholly-owned subsidiary of County Bancorp, Inc. (CBI)...
CoreLogic (CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today announced that its Board of Directors ...
“We were really pleased with the outcome,” said Tejal Patel, corporate governance director at CtW Investment Group, which supported the clawback ...
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--General Mills (NYSE: GIS) today announced the election of Elizabeth C. Lempres to its board of directors effective June 24, 2019. She will serve on the Audit and Finance committees of the board...
On May 31, 2019, Vice Chancellor Sam Glasscock of the Delaware Court of Chancery issued a decision refusing to dismiss a stockholder’s fiduciary duty claims challenging the compensation of Goldman Sachs’ board of directors. [1] The case highlights the type of claim potentially available to stockholders in challenging board (and sometimes executive) compensation, and it provides important guidance for boards when considering the possibility of such a challenge. The decision also reflects the relative uptick we have seen in demands and challenges from stockholders and plaintiffs’ attorneys relating to board compensation...
Activist investor Carl Icahn Opens a New Window. ripped his longtime nemesis Occidental Petroleum Opens a New Window. on Tuesday, criticizing the Houston-based company’s board of directors while offering praise for officials who facilitated Eldorado Resorts’ $17.3 billion deal to acquire the Caesars casino empire...
PROVIDENCE, R.I., June 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- United Natural Foods, Inc. (NYSE: UNFI) ("UNFI") today announced it has appointed Jack Stahl, an experienced consumer products executive, to its Board of Directors effective June 25, 2019. This appointment furthers UNFI's commitment to bring on additional expertise in areas that serve UNFI's new strategic objectives following last year's acquisition of SUPERVALU. With the addition of Mr. Stahl, UNFI's Board now consists of 10 highly experienced members...
Santa Monica, CA, June 25, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BioSig Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: BSGM), a medical device company developing a proprietary biomedical signal processing technology platform designed to address an unmet need for the electrophysiology (EP) marketplace, today appointed Samuel E. Navarro to its Board of Directors...
TOKYO-- Nissan Motor Co. shareholders voted to overhaul the company's board structure, a key goal of Chief Executive Hiroto Saikawa. Following a rowdy meeting where shareholders shouted at current board members, Nissan management and each other, the measure passed in large part due to the support of alliance partner Renault SA, which owns 43.4% of the Japanese company. Shareholders approved the creation of new board committees for executive compensation, audit matters and director nominations...
(Bloomberg) -- It’s official -- SoftBank Group Corp. is Japan’s most generous employer, at least when it comes to executive pay. Six of the country’s 10 biggest salary packages last fiscal year were offered by SoftBank, according to a report from Tokyo Shoko Research Ltd. SoftBank Group Vice Chairman Ronald Fisher topped the list with 3.27 billion yen ($31 million) in the period ended March 31. Toyota Motor Corp. director Didier Leroy, the highest-paid non-SoftBank executive, ranked No...
Gail Edwards is a C-suite financial and real estate executive who is currently a director of Amica Senior Lifestyles and Chair of the Audit Committee...
In particular, Section 607.0902 of the Florida Business Corporation Act ... Ensuring high standards of corporate governance has long been a priority for ...
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that George Kurtz, CEO and co-founder of cloud cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, has been appointed as a member of Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Board of Directors, effective immediately...
ISELIN, N.J., June 24, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Provident Financial Services, Inc. (NYSE:PFS) (the "Company") today announced that Ursuline F. Foley has been named to the boards of directors of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Provident Bank...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FPRX), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing innovative immuno-oncology protein therapeutics, today announced the appointment of Lori Lyons-Williams to its Board of Directors. Ms. Lyons-Williams is an industry leader with 20 years of experience launching and commercializing innovative pharmaceutical products.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Magenta Therapeutics (NASDAQ: MGTA), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel medicines to bring the curative power of stem cell transplant to more patients, today announced that it has appointed Anne McGeorge, M.S., CPA, to its board of directors. Ms. McGeorge will also serve as chair of the Magenta audit committee...
When Boeing 737 Max aircraft crashed in Indonesia and Ethiopia, killing a total of 346 people in October 2018 and March 2019, the disasters raised serious questions about the safety of the aviation leader’s anti-stall system...
Directors have fiduciary duties, and the most litigated and most demanding of those duties is the duty of loyalty. The key questions for duty of loyalty litigation are director-by-director questions: Did this particular director have a conflict? Is it futile to make a demand on that particular director?...
This appointment increases PDL's Board membership to nine, including seven independent Directors . The Company also announced that its ...
GS announced Thursday that Anna Massion has been elected to AGS' Board of Directors , and will serve on the company's Nominating, Governance, ...
(Reuters) - Del Frisco's Restaurant Group Inc said on Monday it agreed to be bought by private equity firm L Catterton for $267.3 million (209.7 million pounds), ending a six-month-long battle with its third largest investor which has been pushing for a sale. Del Frisco's, which owns Eagle Steak House and Frisco's Grille chains, said its shareholders will receive $8 per share, which represents a premium of 18.9% to Friday's close. Including debt, the deal is valued at $650 million...