"A Practical Guide to Evaluating a Company’s Defensive Profile" from Bass Berry & Sims provides a practical, reader-friendly overview of the most common defensive measures companies use to mitigate activist threats including shareholder meeting rights provisions, board structure, director voting standards and classification, organizational document provisions and amendment rights, and dilutive defensive mechanisms such as the poison pill.
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