Take-Two Proxy Fight

Business Law Prof Blog, March 30, 2007:

The success of the dissident shareholders in the annual meeting of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., is stunning (five new directors and the firing of the CEO) and may be a harbinger of a new day for corporate governance. Institutional investors held large stakes in the company, got together when problems surfaced, and in a no-nonsense show of steady strength, put a turnaround artist in control of the company. The ousted CEO tried to sell the company and delay the annual meeting but in the end, he lost. The meeting will have long run effects -- it will encourage institutional investors to be active and, most important perhaps, it will encourage outside directors (two of whom survived by aligning themselves with the dissidents) to switch sides when it is obvious that there are internal problems.