Sentence examples for class of shareholders from inspiring English sources

One potentially powerful class of shareholders — employees — seems to be rousing, too.

Second, Mesa could not, by definition, fit within the class of shareholders being protected from its own coercive and inadequate tender offer.

The beneficiaries of the activism are numerous and profoundly enriched, while the class of shareholders who sold to the activist are few and have not suffered any real economic harm.

Several experts said the ruling would have little effect on securities fraud cases because a misrepresentation by a corporate executive is commonly seen as injuring a company's whole class of shareholders.

In the Oxford case, Sullivan & Cromwell, Oxford's lawyers, argued that two individual plaintiffs selected by Milberg Weiss were unfit to represent a class of shareholders claiming to have been defrauded by the company.

"They haven't yet appreciated that when you take public funds, you now have a new class of shareholders that are going to be more vocal and impatient with the way you operate".

But the growing class of shareholder activists, many of whom promote themselves as the stalwarts of corporate governance, have a paltry record when it comes to women.

Companies will no longer be allowed to use their pension programs to treat their employees as an especially loyal and malleable class of shareholder; instead, pension funds will have to be diversified.

Instead of creating multiple classes of shareholders, governments and regulators may want to think about how they define fiduciary duties in the financial realm.

However, as Chris Huhne, a British Euro-MP, points out, there could still be political opposition to the directive, and in particular to its proposal to outlaw the allocation of different voting weights to different classes of shareholders.

Happily, an experiment in dual classes of shareholders has long been under way in France, where shares often gain double voting rights after being held for a specified period—usually two years, although sometimes as long as ten.