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Corp. Governance Politics: Much Ado About Symbolic Change

Law360, New York ( August 22, 2014, 10:16 AM EDT) -- Corporate governance politics display a peculiar feature: while the rhetoric is often heated, the material stakes are often low. Consider, for example, shareholder resolutions requesting boards to redeem poison pills. Anti-pill resolutions were the most common type of shareholder proposal from 1987 to 2004, received significant shareholder support, and led many companies to dismantle their pills. Yet, because pills can be reinstated at any time, dismantling a pill has no impact on a company's ability to resist a hostile bid....

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