DocuSign CEO says wants to stay public after PE takeover speculation

DocuSign CEO says wants to stay public after PE takeover speculation

The DocuSign website is seen on a laptop in Dobbs Ferry, New York, April 1, 2021. Tiffany Hagler-Geard | Bloomberg | Getty Images Contract management platform DocuSign is committed to remaining a public company and is working to convince investors of its artificial intelligence potential, CEO Allan Thygesen told CNBC, after reports suggested the firm … Read more

Exxon Mobil shareholder lawsuit costs board CalPERS support

Exxon Mobil shareholder lawsuit costs board CalPERS support

ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods speaks during the APEC CEO Summit at Moscone West on November 15, 2023 in San Francisco, California.  Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Exxon Mobil‘s months-long battle with two environmentally focused activist investors has cost the company the support of the California Public Employees Retirement System. CalPERS, the $484 billion pension fund … Read more

Boaz Weinstein says BlackRock funds ‘crushing shareholder rights’

Boaz Weinstein says BlackRock funds ‘crushing shareholder rights’

Boaz Weinstein, founder and chief investment officer of Saba Capital Management, during the Bloomberg Invest event in New York, US, on Wednesday, June 7, 2023.  Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Boaz Weinstein, the hedge fund investor on the winning side of JPMorgan Chase’s $6.2 billion, “London Whale” trading loss in 2011, is now … Read more

India offers a ‘very favorable’ environment for firms to IPO, Peak XV says

India offers a ‘very favorable’ environment for firms to IPO, Peak XV says

Shailendra Singh, managing director of Peak XV Partners. Lionel Ng | Bloomberg | Getty Images India offers a “very favorable” environment for companies to launch initial public offerings, said Shailendra Singh, managing director at Peak XV Partners, formerly Sequoia Capital India & Southeast Asia. “My general view is, especially in Indian public markets, the regulatory … Read more

These are the 2024 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies

These are the 2024 CNBC Disruptor 50 companies

It’s fair to say that AI is all over the 12th annual CNBC Disruptor 50 list.  Roughly two-thirds of the 50 companies making the Disruptor 50 list describe artificial intelligence as “critical” to their businesses. And it starts at the very top: for the first time ever, a company repeats as the list ‘s No. … Read more

HD Hyundai Marine Solution shares double in IPO

HD Hyundai Marine Solution shares double in IPO

Employees of HD Hyundai Marine Solution Co., during the company’s listing ceremony at the Korea Exchange in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. HD Hyundai Marine, a ship repair company, jumped as much as 45% in its South Korea trading debut after a 742.3 billion won ($547 million) initial public offering that was … Read more

Taser-maker Axon is acquiring air defense startup Dedrone

Taser-maker Axon is acquiring air defense startup Dedrone

Drones in possession of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on May 2, 2024 in Lviv, Ukraine. “Just open any newspaper, and switch on any TV channel. Look at what’s happening in Ukraine. Look at what’s happening in the Middle East. Drones have changed modern warfare, public safety, and homeland security forever,” Dedrone CEO Aaditya Devarakonda … Read more

Skydance could drop bid after Sony Apollo offer

Skydance could drop bid after Sony Apollo offer

Shari Redstone, chair of Paramount Global, attends the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. David A. Grogan | CNBC Skydance Media is prepared to walk away from its offer for Paramount Global unless it receives a firm commitment from controlling shareholder Shari Redstone, following the … Read more

Norfolk Southern unions, pensions should back activist Ancora: ISS

Norfolk Southern unions, pensions should back activist Ancora: ISS

Norfolk Southern Chief Executive Alan Shaw testifies during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing titled “Improving Rail Safety in Response to the East Palestine Derailment” in Washington, U.S., March 22, 2023.  Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Norfolk Southern-invested unions and pension funds should back activist Ancora’s full seven-director slate at the railroad’s shareholder meeting … Read more

ISS endorses most of Ancora nominees for Norfolk Southern board

ISS endorses most of Ancora nominees for Norfolk Southern board

Alan Shaw, CEO, Norfolk Southern Scott Mlyn | CNBC Influential proxy advisory firm ISS recommended on Tuesday that Norfolk Southern shareholders support five of activist Ancora’s seven board nominees, withholding an endorsement from CEO pick Jim Barber but describing him as a “credible director and CEO candidate nonetheless.” ISS’ endorsement comes one day after Glass … Read more