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Now a baker’s dozen in North Dakota

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Last week, we footnoted about the small, but growing number of companies whose shareholders are requesting (via the annual proxy process) that their companies be relocated to North Dakota. That’s because a 2007 law is viewed as being much friendlier to shareholders than those in Delaware, where the vast majority of companies are based.
Last week, [...]

Target’s interest in musical instruments…

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Trying to keep up with the near-daily filings by Target (TGT) and Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square is no easy task. In two separate filings, the hedge fund has compared the company’s corporate structure to the “Third World and dictatorships” and described the board’s structure as “suboptimal”. Target, in turn, has described Ackman’s proxy contest ” [...]

Carl Icahn’s move to North Dakota…

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Yesterday, we footnoted the 11 companies that have been targeted by activist investors interested in moving those companies state of incorporation to North Dakota, where a 2007 law is viewed as being more friendly than those in Delaware, where over 60% of Fortune 500 are currently incorporated. As we noted, all 11 companies are against [...]

Welcome to North Dakota!

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Delaware has long been home to a wide range of corporations, and according to the state’s own site, over 60% of the Fortune 500 are incorporated in the state, even though the vast majority are technically based somewhere else.
But this year, Delaware is getting some competition from a seemingly unlikely place: North Dakota, which enacted what [...]

Something’s fishy in Ft. Myers…

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Yesterday, Chico’s (CHS), a company I’ve known for quite some time because of its roots in Florida, announced that its 51 year-old CEO, Scott Edmonds, was “retiring”. Make that had retired the day before, according to the agreement attached to the 8K filed yesterday.
As the WSJ reports this morning, Chico’s had been under pressure from [...]