Sentence examples for shareholder consensus from inspiring English sources

Morton Bahr, the Communications Workers' president, said, "AT&T should seek broad shareholder consensus, not ask shareholders to relinquish their rights before AT&T fully discloses the terms of the breakup".

But thanks to tightened board rules, a post-Sarbanes Oxley pro-shareholder sentiment, and in several cases, state laws outlawing greenmail, raiders now have to build a broad shareholder consensus to get their goals accomplished.

(See: "Time Warner's Bankers Get Rich").. Late Friday, Icahn conceded he lacked sufficient shareholder consensus to pull off a successful proxy fight, even one involving a short list of director nominees (he considered putting up a short slate, which would have fallen short of a board majority but would have sent a message, certainly).

The results suggest that limitations of anti-takeover devices and voting rights restrictions, a financial performance-based remuneration system for managers and a higher shareholders' consensus at the annual general assembly are all negatively correlated with R&D intensity.

And despite "general consensus", shareholders of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development do not vote on its capital-increase plan until May.

Over the past few weeks, a growing consensus among shareholders, corporate leaders and corporate law experts has emerged.

Mr. Case's critics are still hoping to build enough consensus among the shareholders and directors to persuade him to resign.

The consensus is that shareholders would get around 70% of the proceeds via a share buyback or special dividend.

The emerging consensus is that Yahoo shareholders may be prepared to take even less than the $33 a share previously proposed by Microsoft, maybe even as little as $31.50 a share.

Chinese companies often give preliminary approval to deals only to run into difficulty establishing a consensus among various regulators and shareholders.

But he added that among the shareholders he had met with, "There was a consensus that they should strengthen the split-up plan so more value is delivered with more certainty more quickly".