Credit Suisse Shareholder Says Override of Vote "Unprecedented"

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Ethos calling for a possible split and listing of Swiss unitGovernment used emergency laws to block shareholder voteThe UK headquarters of Credit Suisse Group in Canary Wharf financial district in ...

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·2023-03-21
Force sale without share holders vote, gov become robbers... if china is the one that do the force sale... think might be criticized like...
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Emergency Powers not so easy to override
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Photographer: Jason Alden/BloombergOne of Credit Suisse Group AG’s biggest shareholder groups says the rushed merger of its bank with UBS Group AG over the weekend is an unprecedented breach of shareholder rights that may scare off institutional investors.Ethos Foundation, which acts as a proxy adviser for pension funds and other members holding between 3% and 5% of the bank’s stock and $400 billion in assets, said on Monday that it’s weighing the possibility of legal action over the sale. Options through the courts are currently limited however.“This situation is a big failure of corporate governance and may send a poor image of Switzerland for international institutional investors in terms of good governance,” Vincent Kaufmann, Ethos’ chief executive officer, said in a telephone interview.Ethos said it’s asking the Swiss authorities and UBS to explore a possible separation and listing of Credit Suisse’s Swiss unit following the merger, citing concerns about market competition and job cuts. The shareholder group, whose members insure 1.9 million people, is a frequent critic on pay, governance and other issues at companies in which it invests.Kaufmann joins legal commentators who stressed that the manner in which the sale was rushed through has tarnished the country’s reputation as a place where the rule of law is guaranteed for investors. Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter said the government-brokered deal it put together was necessary to prevent a complete implosion of Credit Suisse, which could have forced the government to take the politically unpopular step of bailing the bank out.In announcing the sale of Credit Suisse to its Zurich rival on Sunday evening, the government cited emergency laws that allow it to issue temporary ordinances to counter “threats of serious disruption to public order or internal or external security.” In this case, that included overriding merger laws on shareholder votes.But Kaufmann took issue with the minister’s interpretation of the transaction as a commercial deal.“I don’t agree with Ms. Keller-Sutter saying it’s not a public intervention but a commercial one,” Kaufmann said. “If you change the law and you remove shareholders’ voting power on such a key issue, then you clearly have a state intervention. It’s unprecedented and an expropriation of shareholder rights.”Kaufmann said however, that currently room for legal actions are very limited.  “The Swiss are very protective of the management of companies,” he said, adding that it is very “difficult to go after former management for mismanagement.”“We would need to prove that the bank’s management withheld some information from us, and that they didn’t act in the best interest of shareholders,” he said.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":106163989,"gmtCreate":1680070555311,"gmtModify":1680070559118,"authorId":3567852837945728,"author":{"id":3567852837945728,"authorId":3567852837945728,"name":"setia100","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/5d07af59743ad001196b7aca5f1726d7","vip":1,"currentWearingBadge":{"badgeId":"7a9f168ff73447fe856ed6c938b61789-1","templateUuid":"7a9f168ff73447fe856ed6c938b61789","name":"Knowledgeable Investor","description":"Traded more than 10 stocks","bigImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e74cc24115c4fbae6154ec1b1041bf47","smallImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d48265cbfd97c57f9048db29f22227b0","grayImgUrl":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/76c6d6898b073c77e1c537ebe9ac1c57","redirectLinkEnabled":0,"hasAllocated":1,"isWearing":1,"stampPosition":0,"hasStamp":0,"allocationCount":1,"allocatedDate":"2021.12.21","individualDisplayEnabled":0,"individualDisplaySort":0,"categoryType":1102},"crmLevel":5,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":9943616754,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"strongly agreed 👍","text":"strongly agreed 👍","html":"strongly agreed 👍"}],"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9943618129,"gmtCreate":1679404934662,"gmtModify":1679404980320,"author":{"id":"3581592232676688","authorId":"3581592232676688","name":"Qister","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a43eabdde1f739ca3b75e3dbfb7f3531","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"htmlText":"Emergency Powers not so easy to override&nbsp;","listText":"Emergency Powers not so easy to override&nbsp;","text":"Emergency Powers not so easy to override","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9943618129","repostId":1189382548,"repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1189382548","pubTimestamp":1679402889,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1189382548?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2023-03-21 20:48","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Credit Suisse Shareholder Says Override of Vote \"Unprecedented\"","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1189382548","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"Ethos calling for a possible split and listing of Swiss unitGovernment used emergency laws to block ","content":"<html><head></head><body><ul><li>Ethos calling for a possible split and listing of Swiss unit</li><li>Government used emergency laws to block shareholder vote</li></ul><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/634e7292a6639ec19bd855b591e73c7e\" tg-width=\"1000\" tg-height=\"564\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"/><span>The UK headquarters of Credit Suisse Group in Canary Wharf financial district in London. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg</span></p><p>One of Credit Suisse Group AG’s biggest shareholder groups says the rushed merger of its bank with UBS Group AG over the weekend is an unprecedented breach of shareholder rights that may scare off institutional investors.</p><p>Ethos Foundation, which acts as a proxy adviser for pension funds and other members holding between 3% and 5% of the bank’s stock and $400 billion in assets, said on Monday that it’s weighing the possibility of legal action over the sale. Options through the courts are currently limited however.</p><p>“This situation is a big failure of corporate governance and may send a poor image of Switzerland for international institutional investors in terms of good governance,” Vincent Kaufmann, Ethos’ chief executive officer, said in a telephone interview.</p><p>Ethos said it’s asking the Swiss authorities and UBS to explore a possible separation and listing of Credit Suisse’s Swiss unit following the merger, citing concerns about market competition and job cuts. The shareholder group, whose members insure 1.9 million people, is a frequent critic on pay, governance and other issues at companies in which it invests.</p><p>Kaufmann joins legal commentators who stressed that the manner in which the sale was rushed through has tarnished the country’s reputation as a place where the rule of law is guaranteed for investors. Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter said the government-brokered deal it put together was necessary to prevent a complete implosion of Credit Suisse, which could have forced the government to take the politically unpopular step of bailing the bank out.</p><p>In announcing the sale of Credit Suisse to its Zurich rival on Sunday evening, the government cited emergency laws that allow it to issue temporary ordinances to counter “threats of serious disruption to public order or internal or external security.” In this case, that included overriding merger laws on shareholder votes.</p><p>But Kaufmann took issue with the minister’s interpretation of the transaction as a commercial deal.</p><p>“I don’t agree with Ms. Keller-Sutter saying it’s not a public intervention but a commercial one,” Kaufmann said. “If you change the law and you remove shareholders’ voting power on such a key issue, then you clearly have a state intervention. It’s unprecedented and an expropriation of shareholder rights.”</p><p>Kaufmann said however, that currently room for legal actions are very limited.  “The Swiss are very protective of the management of companies,” he said, adding that it is very “difficult to go after former management for mismanagement.”</p><p>“We would need to prove that the bank’s management withheld some information from us, and that they didn’t act in the best interest of shareholders,” he said.</p></body></html>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Credit Suisse Shareholder Says Override of Vote \"Unprecedented\"</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nCredit Suisse Shareholder Says Override of Vote \"Unprecedented\"\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2023-03-21 20:48 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-21/credit-suisse-shareholder-says-override-of-vote-unprecedented?srnd=premium><strong>Bloomberg</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Ethos calling for a possible split and listing of Swiss unitGovernment used emergency laws to block shareholder voteThe UK headquarters of Credit Suisse Group in Canary Wharf financial district in ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-21/credit-suisse-shareholder-says-override-of-vote-unprecedented?srnd=premium\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-21/credit-suisse-shareholder-says-override-of-vote-unprecedented?srnd=premium","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1189382548","content_text":"Ethos calling for a possible split and listing of Swiss unitGovernment used emergency laws to block shareholder voteThe UK headquarters of Credit Suisse Group in Canary Wharf financial district in London. Photographer: Jason Alden/BloombergOne of Credit Suisse Group AG’s biggest shareholder groups says the rushed merger of its bank with UBS Group AG over the weekend is an unprecedented breach of shareholder rights that may scare off institutional investors.Ethos Foundation, which acts as a proxy adviser for pension funds and other members holding between 3% and 5% of the bank’s stock and $400 billion in assets, said on Monday that it’s weighing the possibility of legal action over the sale. Options through the courts are currently limited however.“This situation is a big failure of corporate governance and may send a poor image of Switzerland for international institutional investors in terms of good governance,” Vincent Kaufmann, Ethos’ chief executive officer, said in a telephone interview.Ethos said it’s asking the Swiss authorities and UBS to explore a possible separation and listing of Credit Suisse’s Swiss unit following the merger, citing concerns about market competition and job cuts. The shareholder group, whose members insure 1.9 million people, is a frequent critic on pay, governance and other issues at companies in which it invests.Kaufmann joins legal commentators who stressed that the manner in which the sale was rushed through has tarnished the country’s reputation as a place where the rule of law is guaranteed for investors. Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter said the government-brokered deal it put together was necessary to prevent a complete implosion of Credit Suisse, which could have forced the government to take the politically unpopular step of bailing the bank out.In announcing the sale of Credit Suisse to its Zurich rival on Sunday evening, the government cited emergency laws that allow it to issue temporary ordinances to counter “threats of serious disruption to public order or internal or external security.” In this case, that included overriding merger laws on shareholder votes.But Kaufmann took issue with the minister’s interpretation of the transaction as a commercial deal.“I don’t agree with Ms. Keller-Sutter saying it’s not a public intervention but a commercial one,” Kaufmann said. “If you change the law and you remove shareholders’ voting power on such a key issue, then you clearly have a state intervention. It’s unprecedented and an expropriation of shareholder rights.”Kaufmann said however, that currently room for legal actions are very limited.  “The Swiss are very protective of the management of companies,” he said, adding that it is very “difficult to go after former management for mismanagement.”“We would need to prove that the bank’s management withheld some information from us, and that they didn’t act in the best interest of shareholders,” he said.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"}],"hasMoreComments":true,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":16,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":3,"favoriteSize":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false}}