Shareholder votes at risk in shake-up of City rules

Shareholders risk losing voting rights if plans to attract fast-growing companies to UK are given green light, bodies representing investors warn By Emma Dunkley, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 9 January 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 9 January 2021 Shareholders risk losing their voting rights if plans to attract fast-growing companies to the … Read more

Sirius Minerals faces legal bid from shareholder group after rescue

Sirius Minerals faces legal bid from shareholder group after Anglo’s ‘daylight robbery’ rescue deal By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 GMT, 7 December 2020 | Updated: 22:12 GMT, 7 December 2020 An influential shareholder organisation is assembling a legal case against Sirius Minerals after thousands of ordinary investors saw their savings and … Read more

AA’s biggest shareholder slams brakes on takeover

AA’s biggest shareholder slams brakes on takeover of breakdown company after calling £219m price tag ‘derisory’ By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 29 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 29 November 2020 The AA’s biggest shareholder has slammed the brakes on a takeover of the breakdown company after calling the £219m … Read more

Mecca Bingo-owner Rank Group and N Brown seek shareholder aid

Mecca Bingo-owner Rank Group and retailer N Brown tap shareholders for emergency cash By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 5 November 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 5 November 2020 Meccs Bingo-owner Rank Group and retailer N Brown have become the latest companies to tap shareholders for emergency cash. Rules introduced this … Read more

Top shareholder backs Boohoo chiefs amid call for founder to quit

Top shareholder backs Boohoo chiefs amid calls for founder to step down following sweatshop scandal By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 22:01 BST, 23 October 2020 | Updated: 22:34 BST, 23 October 2020 Boohoo’s billionaire founder has been backed by his largest independent investor. MPs called for Mahmud Kamani to step down as … Read more

The ‘Czech Sphinx’ becomes Sainsbury’s fourth largest shareholder 

Czech Sphinx fills basket with Sainsburys: Billionaire investor Daniel Kretinsky becomes fourth largest shareholder By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:53 BST, 17 September 2020 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 17 September 2020 A billionaire investor known as the ‘Czech Sphinx’ has become the fourth-largest shareholder in Sainsbury’s. Daniel Kretinsky, who is already the … Read more

TikTok to have US HQ and Oracle as minority shareholder to avoid ban

TikTok will be restructured as part of a new company headquartered in the United States while Oracle, which will own a minority stake, will manage Americans’ user data in hopes of winning the approval of President Trump, it has been reported. The changes are part of an agreement between Oracle and TikTok’s Chinese-based parent company, … Read more

TikTok will be headquartered in the US with Oracle as minority shareholder in plan to avoid ban

TikTok will be restructured as part of a new company headquartered in the United States while Oracle, which will own a minority stake, will manage Americans’ user data in hopes of winning the approval of President Trump, it has been reported. The changes are part of an agreement between Oracle and TikTok’s Chinese-based parent company, … Read more

Czech billionaire becomes largest Royal Mail shareholder

Billionaire known as the Czech Sphinx quietly becomes largest shareholder in Royal Mail By Jamie Nimmo, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:53 BST, 22 August 2020 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 22 August 2020 The billionaire known as the Czech Sphinx has quietly become the largest shareholder in Royal Mail, heaping more pressure on the troubled … Read more

Estate agent Foxtons braced for shareholder rebellion

Foxtons braced for shareholder rebellion over way it raised £22m from investors last month By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:52 BST, 10 May 2020 | Updated: 21:52 BST, 10 May 2020 Foxtons is braced for a shareholder rebellion over the way it raised £22m from investors last month.  The London-focused estate agency … Read more