Ask Jeff: is shareholder activism a modern invention? No. VOC investors were demanding accounts and a voice by the early 1620s. #AskJeff #ShareholderActivism

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— Jeff K

Seven years after the IPO, Isaac Le Maire filed a formal complaint about VOC management. Jeff on the activist investor who also ran the first recorded bear raid. #ShareholderActivism

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— Jeff K

Stake, then influence, then leverage, in roughly twenty years. Jeff walks through how VOC shareholders went from passive to pushy. #ShareholderActivism

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— Jeff K

Early 1620s: aggrieved VOC shareholders published pamphlets demanding transparency, accounting and a voice. They won concessions at charter renewal. Jeff on the first activist campaign. #ShareholderActivism

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— Jeff K

@olshanlaw.bsky.social Co-Managing Partner and Chair of the firm’s Shareholder Activism Practice Andrew Freedman to Moderate Fireside Chat at 13D Monitor’s 2026 Active-Passive Investor Summit on October 20 in New York
#OlshanLaw #13D #ShareholderActivism

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📊 KADOKAWA's CEO survived the Oasis proxy fight with 59.68% support.

Every other director on the ballot cleared 90%.

Four in ten shareholders wouldn't back him, yet only 26.79% voted to oust him.

#KADOKAWA #OasisManagement #FromSoftware #ShareholderActivism