On behalf of Daniel Watkins of Watkins Firm, A Professional Corporation posted on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. In corporate America, it’s easy to forget the little guy, but this story illustrates that even a single shareholder can assert his rights. A single Yahoo shareholder discovered that Yahoo’s Chief Executive, Scott Thompson, had misrepresented certain details of his academic credentials on his […]
On behalf of Daniel Watkins of Watkins Firm, A Professional Corporation posted on Friday, May 4, 2012. Business mergers and acquisitions happen all of the time. Depending on the size of the business and other business specific details, the planning that goes into mergers and acquisitions requires a lot of attention to detail and careful thought. Even though a lot of […]
On behalf of Daniel Watkins of Watkins Firm, A Professional Corporation posted on Wednesday, April 25, 2012. Roche, a Switzerland-based healthcare giant has had its eye on the San Diego-based company Illumina. The California company has been one of the market leaders in manufacturing DNA sequencing tools, something that Roche had hoped to control through a hostile takeover […]
On behalf of Daniel Watkins of Watkins Firm, A Professional Corporation posted on Monday, April 23, 2012. Tradesmen from across California competed this month for a chance to take their skills to a national platform later this month, something that many entrepreneurs do when starting a business. The boiling sun may have been beating down in full force during the […]
On behalf of Daniel Watkins of Watkins Firm, A Professional Corporation posted on Saturday, April 7, 2012. Quest Software Inc. is locked into a shareholder dispute right now over the chief executive’s rush to sell the company. This move comes as no surprise, as the CEO was attempting to get out before a regulation committee was able to investigate, but some […]
California investors might be interested in a recent wave of criticisms and complaints lodged against Groupon, the online daily deal coupon service. After revealing accounting problems in last year’s annual report, Groupon’s CEO and CFO have been named in a shareholder’s lawsuit that accuses Groupon of fraud, alleging the executives acted fraudulently by making false […]