Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance: Heroes Or Villains? - Part 1

April 17, 2009
Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance: Heroes Or Villains?
Panel I -- An Institutional Investor's Perspective
George A. Leet Business Law Symposium presented by the Center for Business Law and Regulation
Case Western Reserve University School of Law

John Wilcox, Chairman of Sodali, Ltd. (international investor advisory consulting firm) former Senior VP and Head of Corporate Governance, TIAA-CREF

Katherine Combs, Senior Vice President, Corporate Governance; Corporate Secretary; and Deputy General Counsel, Exelon Corporation

Prof. Simon Peck, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University

Summary:

The Symposium addresses a wide range of issues in the corporate and securities field, including: Shareholder voting, SEC proxy rules on shareholder voting and shareholder proposals; the role of proxy advisory services; the validity of shareholder initiatives in corporate governance; the role of hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds in corporate governance; the role of tender offers and defenses against tender offers (including staggered boards and poison pills); the propriety of current levels of executive compensation, the effectiveness of various elements of executive compensation as appropriate incentives, the role of shareholders in approving executive compensation; and the effects of devices that separate voting rights from the economic interests of common stock ownership.

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