Kingsdale Shareholder Services Defines 2015 Proxy Season in New Report
(firmenpresse) - TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwired) -- 09/24/15 -- Kingsdale Shareholder Services today released its annual 2015 Proxy Season Review, a report designed to equip public companies, boards and advisors to face the next wave of shareholder activism in Canada and effectively manage the upcoming 2016 proxy season.
"Only halfway through this year, we've seen more proxy fights than we did in all of 2014. With a growing rift between long and short-term shareholders, more active institutional investors, and boards continuing to underperform in a number of key areas, we expect the back half of the year and early 2016 to be just as busy," said Kingsdale CEO and Founder, Wes Hall. "Activists are attracting more capital, superior talent and effecting change. Just as companies thought they were catching up and defending themselves appropriately activists are set to leapfrog their best efforts again. Directors should be under no illusion that what got them through last year will get them through the next."
Activists are continuing to outperform management this year racking up more victories. Interestingly, the Energy and Materials sectors have bucked this trend (so far) with activists being generally less successful when compared to the aggregate activist success rate. Part of the reason for the continued success of activists year after year is their willingness to innovate and adjust tactics, such as the increased use of 'constructivism' and minority short slates.
Kingsdale defined the most noteworthy developments of the 2015 Proxy Season as:
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About Kingsdale Shareholder Services:
Since 2003, public companies across North America have looked to the expertise of Kingsdale Shareholder Services to help them reach out to shareholders to secure votes for annual meeting agenda items and transactions. Kingsdale has been engaged by more issuers and in more proxy contests than all other advisors in Canada combined and acted on the majority of M&A transactions each year. As Canada's preeminent shareholder services firm, Kingsdale offers an array of specialized services including: strategic and defensive advisory, proxy solicitation, shareholder identification, information agent, depositary, governance advisory and proxy analytics, asset reclamation, and corporate communications.
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Ian Robertson
Kingsdale Shareholder Services
Vice President, Communications
Direct: 416-867-2333
Cell: 647-621-2646
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