Greg Taxin
Greg Taxin
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It is a sad day in the history of a public company when its best argument is that it previously filed false statements with the SEC.
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The tilting of the playing field in favor of their hometown corporation makes Pennsylvania an unsafe place for investors. The whole purpose of law is to provide predictability, and what the legislature appears to be doing is to change in the middle of the game the rules that everyone was playing by.
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Either he was unsuccessful in recruiting a sufficient number of qualified and talented people, or he is conceding he cannot gain enough support to replace the entire board and seek more modest changes. It's possible in a company that big that seeking more modest changes increases your chance of getting a result.
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Disney directors would have to be deaf and dumb not to understand they're under a microscope. The shareholders of Disney will examine this process very carefully to understand whether the Disney board has learned anything from the Ovitz matter.
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Ultimately what these companies need to do, whether combined or alone, is fend off creeping market share from SAP, ... and it's probably easier for them to do that combined.
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Those shareholders wanted it to go through because they realized Washington Mutual is getting a great bargain and they will benefit from the unfair price,
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It's possible in a company that big that seeking more modest changes increases your chance of getting a result.
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This has been harmful to both companies, ... It's been distracting and expensive and I think both sets of shareholders will breathe a sigh of relief when we have a verdict.
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I think it's a fairly enlightened action by this board. That's not a place the Disney board has often found itself. It's not perfect, but it's better than 99.5% of the companies out there.
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Institutions from around the world have invested billions of dollars in Pennsylvania's public companies with the expectation that as investors they would be treated fairly. This sort of mid-game rule changing to benefit the home team makes Pennsylvania a dangerous place to invest.