The annual meeting's location is a sign of Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport’s hub status for the airline.

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Are Delaware’s judges attempting to rein in the shareholder litigation that has become an inevitable sideshow to virtually every corporate takeover? A recent opinion from the Delaware Chancery Court, home to many of these disputes, as well as the transcript ...

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DOVER, Del. — A Delaware judge on Thursday ordered 92-year-old Dole Food CEO David Murdock and a former top lieutenant to pay $148 million in damages for misleading directors and shareholders in a deal that took the company private in ...

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Under Armour Inc. investors approved the creation of a new class of shares that don’t have voting rights, which will maintain founder and Chief Executive Officer Kevin Plank’s control of the sporting-goods maker. The vote was a formality because Plank ...

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Three days after Under Armour announced a proposed change in its stock structure, a shareholders’ lawsuit was filed seeking to prevent the plan from proceeding. The potential class-action lawsuit, filed Thursday in Baltimore City Circuit Court, alleges the change will ...

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Despite a debate over whether Under Armour’s proposed change in stock structure is good for shareholders, analysts who cover the company expressed confidence that strengthening founder Kevin Plank’s control would be a positive for the fitness and apparel maker’s future. ...

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Under Armour’s board of directors approved a change to the company’s stock structure that would permit the company to continue expansion while also allowing founder and CEO Kevin Plank to maintain control. The 2-for-1 stock split, which needs approval by ...

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The retirement offer affected about 5 percent of the Sparks-based company's U.S. workforce.

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The Dolan Company’s proposed reorganization plan to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy significantly undervalues the company’s worth, an official shareholders committee claims.

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RICHMOND, Va. — Shareholders of Smithfield Foods Inc. on Tuesday approved a plan to sell the world’s largest pork producer and processor to a Chinese company. The Smithfield, Va.-based company said more than 96 percent of the votes cast during ...

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