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Board directors at publicly traded firms must be vigilant about preparing for activist campaigns as issue-based activism remains strong.
In the spring of 2021, a little-known hedge fund based in San Francisco attempted a seemingly impossible task: securing four seats on the board of Exxon Mobil Corp., even though it held just 0.02 percent of the oil giant’s shares. Against all odds...
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