Sentence examples for a public proxy from inspiring English sources

Inside and outside the firm, the affiliate's stock price — a public proxy for the value of K.K.R.'s own secretive private equity funds — had become an embarrassment.

To avoid the fiasco of a public proxy dispute, and despite the Delaware courts' approval of anti-activist poison pills in Third Point, companies often settle with activists behind the scenes, for example, by allowing the activist to appoint individuals of its choosing to the company's board.

As a result, a company may choose to settle with an activist for minority board representation, and accept the risk of prolonged controversy or even disruption in the boardroom, rather than taking the risk of engaging in a public proxy contest.

Never was this more obvious than a few years ago when the feared investor Carl C. Icahn ran a very public proxy fight, trying to put pressure on Mr. Parsons to break up the company.

A steady increase in public proxy fights and activist campaigns, combined with a volatile political atmosphere are creating a new world of investment strategy and investor-issuer relations, with particular emphasis on a heightened level of shareholder influence on companies.

Throughout the years, we've seen a large increase in the number of public proxy contests in Canada, from six in 2003 to a peak of 55 in 2015.

Indeed, along with the public proxy opposition, comes the release of a letter that Eisner wrote to fellow prince of Hollywood Michael Ovitz Michael Ovitz, who served as president of Disney for just one year before Eisner forced him out in 1996.

Issues such as the kinds of "certificate authority" and "public proxy server" are integrated in our scheme to solve the Internet identification and anonymity problems.

The acrimonious, costly and very public proxy fight that followed -- after the Hewlett and Packard families opposed the deal -- significantly raised the personal profiles of both Ms. Fiorina and Mr. Capellas, who conducted a political-style campaign to sell the deal.

Year-to-date activity has exceeded last year's figures: this time last year, there were 21 public proxy contests, increasing to 32 by year-end.

In the early days of shareholder activism, there were markedly different activist campaign strategies in the two jurisdictions the U.S. associated with more hostile, public proxy fights, and the U.K. often reaching settlement behind closed doors.