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. Sun, 10 May 2026 11:30:48 +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 Governance Insights for 2012 — Canada – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Governance Insights for 2012 — Canada https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2013/02/09/governance-insights-for-2012-canada/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=governance-insights-for-2012-canada https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2013/02/09/governance-insights-for-2012-canada/#comments Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:19:31 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=40166?d=20150113111048EST Posted by Noam Noked, co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, on Saturday, February 9, 2013
Editor's Note:

The following post comes to us from Berl Nadler, partner at Davies, Ward, Phillips & Vineberg LLP, and is based on the executive summary of a Davies publication by Carol Hansell, titled “Governance Insights 2012,” available here.

Executive Summary

In our annual review of the topics shaping governance today, we consider the ideas that will trend in boardrooms across Canada for months and years ahead. The dominant theme is the shareholder. Directors need look no farther than the events of 2012 to convince them that shareholders have the power to seize the governance agenda.

We believe that the first response of boards to shareholder activism is changing dramatically in light of recent events. Our section on the Power and Influence of Canadian Shareholders looks at the experience of three issuers (Canadian Pacific, Research in Motion and Magna) confronted by shareholder demands for governance change. In each case, the shareholders used different tools to effect change, and in each case they were successful. Boards in 2013 will incorporate the lessons learned from these situations in considering their own response to shareholder concerns with their governance practices.

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