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Considerations for REITs in Adopting a Poison Pill in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis

REIT management and boards of directors should review their defensive profile and consider whether to prepare a rights plan. Key Points: ..Unprecedented market volatility and investor uncertainty due to the coronavirus...more

Proactively Adopting a Poison Pill in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis

Tailored considerations for boards of directors and management in the current environment. Key Points: ..Hostile takeover activity and stockholder activism often correspond with or follow periods of extreme market...more

Universal Proxies: What Companies Need to Know Now

A universal proxy may benefit public companies in certain contested director elections, but the ability to use this tool may depend on a company’s bylaws. Key Points - ..In contested director elections, the binary...more

Boardroom Perspectives: Proxy Access – Preparing for the 2017 Proxy Season

As shareholders continue to submit proxy access proposals, public companies may wish to consider proxy access and develop a response plan. Many public companies have received shareholder proxy access proposals in...more

DOJ Suit Against ValueAct Shines Spotlight on HSR Requirements for Shareholder Activists

Suit signals potential consequences for activist investors who rely on the HSR “solely for purposes of investment” exemption. On April 4, 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued certain ValueAct Capital entities...more

Proxy Access–Making Sure You are Prepared for the 2016 Proxy Season - Update

UPDATE (October 29, 2015): On October 22, 2015, the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporate Finance issued Staff Legal Bulletin No. 14H1, clarifying when a company may exclude a shareholder...more

Proxy Access–Making Sure You are Prepared for the 2016 Proxy Season

As the 2016 proxy season approaches, every public company should consider its position on proxy access and should have a plan for responding to a shareholder proxy access proposal. Based on lessons learned from the 2015...more

The Resilient Rights Plan: Recent Poison Pill Developments and Trends

Shareholder rights plans were developed more than 30 years ago to fend off opportunistic hostile offers and other abusive takeover transactions. Rights plans deter unauthorized stock accumulations by imposing substantial...more

Third Point LLC v. Ruprecht — Activism Confronts the Rights Plan

The Delaware Court of Chancery refuses to enjoin Sotheby’s annual meeting and allows Sotheby’s “poison pill” to protect against an activist’s proxy contest. Implications for our Clients - In a thirty year-long...more

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