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To: Spktyr
Fiduciary responsibility is about more than mere legality...though a violation of it might certainly be illegal.

This Bud Light matter might be a viable case if it could be established that AB-InBev's actions were a violation of fiduciary responsibility by putting management's political agenda ahead of the interests of the shareholders and in doing so created a significant loss in share value...particularly if it can be established that the board was being pressured by certain institutional investors (like BlackRock) to do so.

Of course, from a practical POV, the judge hearing his matter would be a problem if he were politically biased toward the Left...

42 posted on 06/08/2023 8:08:13 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: RoosterRedux

A counter from the defense would be to present studies showing that they believed that such a course of behavior would increase sales and had some research to indicate that. If so, such a move could be justified as being in the best interest of the shareholders/corporation. Additionally, that’s the thing about ESG loans - they could say that this was being required to keep the free money they were being given, which would also have been in the corporation’s best interests.


44 posted on 06/08/2023 8:49:47 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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