Shareholder Vote

An election in a corporation in which all shareholders may participate. Shareholder votes are most often associated with electing directors and setting company policies at the annual meeting of shareholders. In order to be able to vote, one must hold voting stock. The right to vote gives the holder of voting stock a great deal of control over the company.

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Last week, the company announced that it would postpone the shareholder vote on the merger until January 28th to allow more time to cement support for the merger vote.

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The SEC requires that the results of the shareholder vote be reported in the 10-Q following the vote.

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Observation: This ruling is restrictive because it adds to revenue ruling 75-406 (which places heavy emphasis on the shareholder vote factor) the prohibition on pre-spinoff negotiations.

Spinoffs and mergers

Transactions presumed not to restrict, nullify, or disparately reduce voting rights would include: (1) issuance of securities in an initial public offering; (2) issuance of securities in a public offering with voting rights not greater than those of any outstanding class of the issuer's common stock; and (3) issuance of securities approved by shareholder vote pursuant to a proxy statement in a merger, acquisition, or a stock dividend transaction in which the voting rights of the securities would not be greater than those of any outstanding class of the issuer's common stock.

Crafting a shareholder voting rights policy

A total of 142 respondents said that they published the results of their annual shareholders meeting in some form after the meeting, with 30% posting the shareholder vote results in English on their corporate websites.

The Japan Investor Relations Association Reports Survey Results of Annual Shareholders Meeting