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Shareholder activism is the practice of investors pressuring companies to change strategy, capital allocation, or board makeup.
CEA Industries, holder of about $302 million in BNB, becomes BNB Standard Corporation on September 29 and keeps its BNC ticker. Its suit to void a 10X Capital management agreement, whose termination clause could have topped $100 million, stays open under the new name.
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Quad Asset Management wants Daeyang Electric to buy back and cancel 30 billion won of shares over three years and lift its dividend payout above 30%. The board has until Oct. 16 to answer a demand that its record profits make hard to refuse for lack of cash.
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The preferred rose 15.34% in September against 9.00% for the common, and at 219,500 won one quarter's extra yield is worth about half a percentage point. The rest of the gap prices a cancellation proposal the board decides in January.
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Nomura's count of Japanese listed subsidiaries is 139, down about 20% in a year, and from 2027 companies must disclose how minority shareholders voted on directors. At that pace the category empties in about four years.
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The Conference Board puts 35% of this year's Russell 3000 forced departures in health care. The same report has forced exits taking a smaller share of 2026 successions than in either prior year, and no single industry profile.
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Wachtell Lipton counts six US activist campaigns reaching a vote through August 2026, down from nine a year earlier, and says settlements now often land before the activist has agitated in public.
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Life Asset Management asked Samsung's board on September 14 to approve repurchases in October and cancel the discounted preferred stock by December, four months into a return plan that runs to 2030.
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Three Goodwin Procter lawyers write that the premium these companies raised capital on has compressed into discounts across much of the sector. The discount itself is the profile shareholder activists have historically targeted.
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Artisan Partners' David Samra is telling Novartis's chairman to rebuild the team that does its deals, after a week of three Phase III setbacks in which one of the drugs actually met its primary endpoint.
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Metaplanet's board pulled back grant terms that expanded with every equity raise, cutting the potential share pool by about 41 percent and lifting bitcoin per fully diluted share 8.8 percent without buying a coin.
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Two academics measured NCLH directors' professional histories against the company's own strategic language and found the pre-campaign board fit worse than its peers' boards did. Every input was public before Elliott moved.
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Three Corporation Finance Q&As dated September 2 say talking alone will not cost a 5%-plus holder its Schedule 13G status, with the clearest comfort reserved for conversations the issuer started, which puts visibility back on the board.
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The Court of Chancery found Empery Digital's rejection of an activist slate improper because the disclosures its board wanted were nowhere in its own bylaws, which turns a judgment call into a drafting exercise.
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FCLTGlobal counted 255 campaigns in 2025, 29 percent of them from first-time activists, and 32 US CEO exits inside a year. The weaknesses activists attacked are ones a board can score itself on.
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Nine in ten exclusion requests now draw a no-objection letter that reflects no review of the merits, and requests fell by half. The judgement moved to the general counsel's office.
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Diligent Market Intelligence says activity held at H1 2025 levels, settlements were the only real route onto boards, and technology brands were pressed on AI integration and cost rationalization.
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