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8 Jan 2024, 2:47 pm by Steve Bainbridge
Granted, a board can be held liable for acting in bad faith not only for acting with “'subjective bad faith,' that is, fiduciary conduct motivated by an actual intent to do harm" to the corporation, In re Walt Disney Co. [read post]
23 Apr 2012, 3:32 pm by Ted Allen
Among those companies are Walt Disney Co., Pfizer, Motorola Solutions, and DTE Energy. [read post]
23 Jan 2010, 11:12 am by Charles M. Nathan, Latham & Watkins LLP,
The increasing success of shareholder activists in designating or electing directors is altering the composition of public company boards. [read post]
13 Sep 2008, 7:10 pm
Noble held that the failure of the board of directors of a target company to actively engage itself in the CEO-dominated sale of the companyâ€â [read post]
23 Feb 2007, 10:59 pm
My only prior encounter with this has been in several Delaware cases, including In re Limited Inc. and  In re Walt Disney Co. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 3:30 am by John Jenkins
Granted, a board can be held liable for acting in bad faith not only for acting with “’subjective bad faith,’ that is, fiduciary conduct motivated by an actual intent to do harm” to the corporation, In re Walt Disney Co. [read post]
21 Dec 2021, 1:57 pm by Kevin LaCroix
An example of board members participating in addressing management responsibilities arose when Michael Eisner, the CEO of Walt Disney, utilized the chairman of Disney’s compensation committee and another experienced director to handle the employment negotiations with Michael Ovitz and his advisers.[4] Such an interactive relationship between certain directors and members of management helps ensure the quality of the flow of information to… [read post]
28 Dec 2011, 8:22 am by Ted Allen
., Walt Disney Co. and Hewlett-Packard to exclude the labor pension fund’s seven-year rotation proposals. [read post]
29 May 2009, 6:32 am
The test for bad faith action laid down in In re the Walt Disney Company Derivative Litigation, 906 A.2d 27 (Del. 2006), is intentional dereliction of duties or a conscious disregard of one's responsibilities. [read post]
10 Nov 2011, 1:42 pm by Steve Bainbridge
In the 2004 shareholder revolt at The Walt Disney Company, for example, shareholder activists opposed the election of CEO Michael Eisner and certain other candidates. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 9:01 pm by renholding
For issues that are significant to the company as a whole, directors and officers can fulfill their fiduciary duties by actively engaging the issues. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 10:56 am
Davis will revisit several high profile annual meetings in 2009, mostly to present the shareholder proposal she has long championed that urges boards to adopt cumulative voting in director elections. [read post]
22 Aug 2007, 5:15 am
Wal-Mart, AIG, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Walt Disney and Bristol Myers. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 1:35 pm by Edward M. McNally
For example, the Delaware Supreme Court's 2005 opinion in In re The Walt Disney Co. [read post]
19 Nov 2021, 10:47 am by Kevin LaCroix
Ultimately, the Disney directors prevailed, but only after incurring significant legal defense expense. [read post]
17 Jan 2007, 8:11 am
In addition, Walt Disney, First Data, Schering-Plough, and Zimmer Holdings have agreed to adopt majority voting in response to proposals from the Sheet Metal Workers International Association (SMWIA). [read post]