By Josh Black, Editor of Activist Insight Davidoff Solomon is the Co-Director of Berkeley’s Center for Law, Business and the Economy. In January he wrote a column in “The New York Times” suggesting that 2016 would be the year activists met their match—not greater skepticism from institutional investors, or a new corporate governance framework, but […] Read more »
Corporate Governance Is More Than A Tool To Today’s Activist Investors
From Activist Insight Traditional activists were essentially value investors, but that profile might be changing. For example, Carl Icahn has long championed the interests of shareholders. Yet even many who had watched him for years were surprised by the vehemence of his Wall Street Journal Op-ed after withdrawing from the shareholder vote on Dell’s leveraged […] Read more »