June 13, 2023
Contested Elections in 2023
Over on TheCorporateCounsel.net, we received a question on our Q&A Forum asking whether there’s a list of contested elections since the adoption of universal proxy. For those looking for precedent and wanting to see UPC “in the wild,” Michael Levin at The Activist Investor has compiled a list of seventeen proxy contests in 2023 that may go to a shareholder vote by the end of July. Given the format, I can’t excerpt the list here, so you’ll have to check it out yourself. It includes the company, ticker, investor and annual meeting date. The list doesn’t include contested situations where an activist has made public statements about a proxy contest but the proxy statements haven’t been filed yet.
– Meredith Ervine