The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:37:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png Activists Target Companies with Market Caps over $50 Billion – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Activists Target Companies with Market Caps over $50 Billion https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2011/04/19/activists-target-companies-with-market-caps-over-50-billion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=activists-target-companies-with-market-caps-over-50-billion https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2011/04/19/activists-target-companies-with-market-caps-over-50-billion/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:57:33 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=17289?d=20150120092920EST Posted by Martin Lipton, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, on Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Editor's Note:

Martin Lipton is a founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, specializing in mergers and acquisitions and matters affecting corporate policy and strategy. This post is based on a Wachtell Lipton firm memorandum.

In a speech to the Council of Institutional Investors recently, Nelson Peltz, one of the most successful of the activist investors, said the recent changes in corporate governance would enable him to make investments in the heretofore “untouchables”—companies with market capitalizations over $50 billion. Mr. Peltz noted that the new governance rules give activists more tools with which to pressure companies, noting that larger companies provide bigger profit opportunities than smaller companies.

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