Edelman Senior Vice President Ira Gorsky From Anadarko’s sale to Occidental to T-Mobile’s purchase of Sprint to Bristol Myers Squibb’s acquisition of Celgene, big deals on Wall Street often put shares in the hands of an unfamiliar investor: the risk...

Despite Healthy Stock Performance, Spotlight Remains on Poor Governance and Lavish Spending by CEO    By John Jannarone Argo Group International Holdings looks set for a showdown next week with activist investor Voce Capital Management. The risk: Argo may be...

Martin Lipton, Founding Partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz By John Jannarone The largest institutional asset managers including Vanguard, State Street, and BlackRock have taken recent steps that align well with the tenets of The New Paradigm, according Martin...

Stocks Trade Across 88 “Lit” and “Dark” Venues (Source: Nasdaq Economic Research, FINRA)    By John Jannarone Small, illiquid stocks may actually suffer from exposure across too many platforms and would benefit from trading on just one “lit” home exchange...

Glass Lewis Highlights Disingenuous Attack on Waterton Nominee Daniel Muñiz Quintanilla   By John Jannarone Leading proxy advisors Glass Lewis and ISS have issued support for multiple directors nominated by Waterton Global Resource Management in its proxy fight with mining...

Rob Lin, Head of Investor Relations at Alibaba Group By John Jannarone Government regulations have required many Chinese technology companies to adopt a unique legal structure when listing shares in the U.S., and a number of bad actors have left...

Canadian Mining Company Deleted Its Accusation that Activist Waterton “Seeded” Article with Bloomberg By John Jannarone When companies face criticism from an activist, it’s common for them to resort to aggressive tactics. But spreading potential mistruths is a dangerous game...

MacKenzie Bezos in a Patagonia and Jeff Bezos in a SCOTTeVEST at the Allen & Company Conference in Sun Valley, ID   By John Jannarone   SCOTTeVEST CEO Scott Jordan is calling Patagonia out for its attack on Wall Street....

Patricia Olasker, Partner at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP   By John Jannarone The next wave of attacks on cannabis companies is likely to shift from short raids to traditional activist campaigns focused on better governance. That’s according to...

Phil Denning and Dan McDermott of ICR The disgrace of Purdue Pharma after allegedly pushing OxyContin on doctors is a lesson for fast-growing cannabis companies as they develop environmental, social, and governance standards. That’s according to a new paper published...