Sentence examples for friendly director from inspiring English sources

SoftBank, a Japanese investment company with a big stake, was expected to nominate a fifth friendly director; and the remaining four others were to be independent.

He is invited to join the CBS board as a friendly director who, analysts say, could forestall a hostile takeover bid.

So now he has five friendly directors on a 10-person board.

Mr. Estrada appointed friendly directors to represent the other 27percentt stake, enabling Mr. Cojuangco to control the company.

Mr. Estrada appointed five more friendly directors to represent the rest of the frozen shares and the shareholdings of government pension funds.

A typical riposte is that the market is rigged: pay is set by board committees comprised of other chief executives or friendly directors dependent on the chairman, advised by pay consultancies hired by the managers themselves.

Further, firms are more likely to hire shareholder friendly directors and dismiss shareholder unfriendly directors when firms have better internal governance, reside in strong investor protection countries, have more growth opportunities, are more complex and rely on external financing.

I hope gay friendly directors keep kicking doors open and someone will come along with charisma and acting chops that audiences won't be able to resist.

When the cartels and their political cronies buy stock in banks in order to name friendly directors who will launder their funds, it undermines the integrity of the banking system.

The board-room seat of its most independent-minded and shareholder-friendly director, Boris Fedorov, is already under threat.

But he has earned a reputation as a writer-friendly director; younger, more experimental members of the British theatre establishment are quietly thrilled.