23.12.2009 Opalesque Exclusive: Corporate boards advised to take pre-emptive steps against activist hedge funds as SEC's Schapiro indicates push for changes to shareholder rights in early 2010
From the Opalesque team:

  On Wednesday SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro indicated an early 2010 focus on increasing shareholder rights (see:  Source), a topic which has not received a great deal of attention since the spring.  Expectations for imminent changes has spurred law firms such as New York-based Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz to advise corporate clients to take pre-emptive takeover steps fro

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