Brunninghausen v. Glavanics P 3.17 * Nature of the transaction may give rise to a fiduciary duty owed by the directors to the shareholders. Coleman v. Meyers P3.17 * Failure to disclose information within the knowledge of one director may amount to ‘special circumstances’ which can give rise to a duty of a fiduciary nature to individual shareholders and not just the company as a whole. Cooke v. Deeks P3.25 * Director cannot take up a corporate opportunity without fully disclosure
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should the management of Sports Products, Inc. pursue as its overriding goal? Why? The overriding objective of the company management of Sports Products needs to focus on how to maximize the assets of the shareholders in the business. The corporate objective task of making the most of shareholder wealth presupposes that company management work in the best interests of stockholders and not just their own individual goals and not to try to seize wealth from lenders to benefit company stockholders. Stockholder
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2010150028 Choi eunyoung First, Linear have paid stable dividends to shareholders since 1992. They initially set the dividend at a relatively low level. By setting the dividend at a low level, Linear could maintain a sustainable payout ratio. Also, shareholders come to expect dividends once a company starts paying it. If the company pays a dividend less than the expected dividend amount, shareholders will be frustrated. Linear’s management believes that paying dividends appeals to potential
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share (accounting for 19.7% of Conrail’s acquisition shares). The second stage, which could only be executed by mid-November once Conrail shareholders decided to void the “fair value” statute under Pennsylvania law, would be to acquire another 18.4 million shares at $92.50 per share (accounting for another 20.3% of Conrail’s acquisition shares) Following shareholder approval, and successful completion of the second cash tender offer, CSX would proceed with the back-end offer through a share swap of
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1/8/2014 Moneycontrol.com >> Company Info >> Print Financials PRINT « Next Years Previous Years » This data can be easily copy pasted into a Microsoft Excel sheet Maruti Suzuki India Standalone Yearly Results Mar '09 Net Sales/Income from operations Other Operating Income 20,852.52 -- ------------------- in Rs. Cr. ------------------Mar '08 17,860.28 -17,860.28 Mar '07 17,205.88 -17,205.88 Mar '06 14,753.10 --Mar '05 13,343.06 --- Total Income From 20,852.52 Operations EXPENDITURE
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RESTRUCTURING OF PROTON HOLDINGS BERHAD The Star reported today( 11/12/11) that it is all good for Proton Holdings Bhd as its share price put on 89 sen or 24.6% to close at RM4.50, amidst talk that its largest shareholder, Khazanah Nasional Bhd, is divesting its stake in the national carmaker. It was also reported that Khazanah was likely to ask for business proposals from parties interested in its 42.7% stake in Proton. Last Friday, Proton's shares and warrants were also actively traded with
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inflow of new target shares (of which hostile acquirer was not able to purchase any), hostile acquirer’s ownership percentage is substantially diluted. Faced with such dilution, hostile acquirer has no choice but to give up its hostile approach. Shareholders other than hostile acquirer are able to buy newly-issued target shares at a substantial discount. If hostile acquirer wants to continue, it has only two practical choices: (1) negotiate with target since only target’s board has the power to redeem
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controlled by five shareholders. The first directors were Thomas Harbottle, Joseph Adshead, Henry Byrom, John Westhead and Richard Bealey. It was provided that three directors should constitute a board and that the acts of three or more should be as effectual as if done by the five. To sum up the feature of the case, two shareholders in the company, Richard Foss and Edward Turton, brought an action against the company’s directors, on behalf of themselves and the other shareholders except the defendants
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reasons that the NEC can take actions that destroy value and shift the value of minority shareholders Nese. Events covered allow discussion of how the concentration of ownership hinders restructuring alternatives like hedge fund investors can resist the controlling shareholders, and as underestimating the cost of institutions can lead to ownership structure, which allows the expropriation of minority shareholders. Why do shares in NEC Electronics, a publicly listed subsidiary of Japan conglomerate
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past six months, presumably due to concerns over the performance of M&S. The shares sold by the Standard Life, one of the largest fund management groups in UK, were substantial: from holding over 2% of the company's shares as the 11th largest shareholder of the retailer, Standard Life Investments now holds an "underweight" position of only 1.43%, the report said. The call of other investors is for M&S to begin delivering, especially in clothing where the past few months placed its overhauled
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