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The fact that an appeal hasn't been filed yet or a quick shareholder vote already announced is evidence of the difficult conversation and hypothetical situations being played out now by the parties.
While the new offer is unlikely to fully appease Bear Stearns executives, who just over a year ago owned substantial stakes in a firm with a market value of over $20 billion, or institutional shareholders who have seen their own positions shrivel, the price is expected to result in quick shareholder approval.
Faced with short-termism, where businesses are pressured to deliver quick shareholder returns, big brands simply can't afford this risk and have it go wrong.
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Sports Direct has held one of the quickest shareholder meetings in the history of the City today - getting the whole business done in barely five minutes.
It is an approach that has partly been shaped by America-envy (deals are always bigger and flashier on Wall Street) but also by a subservience to the City and its demands for quick growth and shareholder returns.
Inflicting pain on the bondholders could be one quick way to help shareholders.
We are a truly independent news organisation – without a proprietor seeking political influence, without shareholders expecting quick returns, without chairmen with political axes to grind.
The last of the conference's three priorities is to bring a new focus to long-term investment, focusing on the greatest return for all those with a stake in capitalism's stability – instead of the quickest return for shareholders.
The constant pressure for shareholder value and quick returns forces business decisions that focus on the near term.
More often, and more prosaically, they pester firms for a quick return of cash to shareholders.
An ESOP is not a quick succession strategy for selling shareholders.
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