Since last March, AlphaValue has made the case that the pandemic was opening the door to a rebalancing of stakeholders’ say in corporate life at…
In a late press release, URW announced that management’s Reset Plan didn’t reach the two-thirds required majority. The recap failed. The three dissident candidates jumped…
We thought that French ‘capitalisme de copains’ would be part of an exotic past. The farce that a last-minute support to Arnaud Lagardère, a failed…
Joseph Oughourlian, founder of Amber Capital and Olivier Fortesa, Managing Partner, held a meeting this morning in order to explain a number of major requests…
As expected, CIAM, an active investor, has renewed pressure on Scor via a new letter published last Friday. The activist fund criticised the remuneration policy…
Every now and then we like to twist the neck of that most fashionable idea that shareholding staff is the future, as the romantic result…
After the recent €580m investment made by the Italian veteran entrepreneur Leonardo Del Vecchio in Mediobanca, speculation about the capital of Generali has re-surfaced. As…
Yet again, CIAM has hit out against the governance quality of Scor and urged the Board members to protect the interest of its shareholders from…
In May, we had a look at Cevian’s exposure to European equities and the dismal performance of its key holdings, at least those which are…
FCA has unveiled a proposal for an all-share merger with Groupe Renault. The ‘transformative’ deal, which would see both FCA and Renault owning 50% of…