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Jun 07, 2015

Silicon Valley takeaways

Think about natural times you can engage [activists] even before there are any warning signs – for example, with mini-roadshows

Neil Stewart sums up IR Magazine’s 11th West Coast Think Tank

Shareholder activism shows no signs of letting up, especially with the fertile ground of high corporate cash holdings, strong investor risk appetite and heady equity market valuations drawing attention to companies with even the slightest of limps. In response to shareholder activism, or just in efforts to pre-emptively avoid becoming a target, US companies are returning mountains of cash to investors through buybacks and dividends. ‘Companies that may not have debt are levering up and then

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