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Law and Economics

Boston University School of Law

2013

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Towards The Declassification Of S&P 500 Boards, Scott Hirst, Lucian A. Bebchuk, June Rhee Apr 2013

Towards The Declassification Of S&P 500 Boards, Scott Hirst, Lucian A. Bebchuk, June Rhee

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This report provides an overview and analysis of the work that the Shareholder Rights Project (SRP) undertook on behalf of a number of institutional investors during 2012 and 2013, the SRP’s first two years of operations. During 2012 and 2013, the SRP worked on behalf of eight SRP-represented investors on board declassification proposals submitted for a vote at the 2012 and/or 2013 annual meetings of 122 S&P 500 and Fortune 500 companies, and this work has produced substantial results:

100 Negotiated Outcomes: Negotiated outcomes involving a commitment to board declassification were reached with 100 S&P 500 and Fortune 500 companies, …