Archive for the 'shareholder lawsuits' Tag
Transocean’s quiet risk panel & push for immunity
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011Could it be that, in the outrage over the safety bonuses awarded to top executives at Transocean (RIG), two other striking parts of the company’s proxy go largely overlooked? Transocean, of course, is the offshore drilling contractor that owned the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that burst into flame a year ago, killing 11 and triggering [...]
Big Payments and Lawsuits Spring up from Sybase Merger…
Friday, May 28th, 2010Just as the summer horizon would seem uncharacteristically empty without dandelions, it’s hard to imagine the M & A landscape without shareholder lawsuits. Thus, it’s no real surprise that after SAP America, a subsidiary of SAP AG (SAP) announced May 12 that that it was acquiring Sybase, Inc. (SY) in a $5.8 billion transaction, a [...]
