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Summary
While 2025 has had a slower start following the record pace of 2024, S&P Global Market Intelligence anticipates an uptick in shareholder activism.
To prepare for potential activist campaigns, we invite you to join our Activist Defense experts as they discuss essential insights for Corporate Issuers and their counsel regarding the current activist landscape. Learn how activists build positions and discover the tools available to better detect such movements before announcements.
Our panel will highlight the innovative data, intelligence, and technology that are transforming the detection of activist threats, including:
- Differentiated activism data and analytics: Trend analysis, campaign insights, professional profiles, and corporate governance assessments.
- Executive-ready reporting: Tailored daily reports designed for executives and boards of directors.
- Expert insights: Access to a vast client network to identify trends and behaviors of activist investors at the custodian level.
- Activist Threat Indicator tool: A comprehensive tool that combines public and proprietary datasets, backed by data science, incorporating firm, fund, custodian, fundamental, market, and portfolio data.
- Capital Insight: An interactive, on-demand tool for tracking custodian movement, broker lending, and derivatives trading, utilizing a predictive surveillance model.
“S&P Global Market Intelligence’s knowledge of activist tendencies and early activist identification is second to none. They alerted us to activist action even while we had a proxy firm engaged at the time. S&P Global continues to be one of our most trusted advisors.” – Fortune 300 Consumer Services, SVP of Investor Relations
Join our panel discussion on Shareholder Activism to explore these topics and more, and to field your live questions.
Speakers
S&P Global Market Intelligence
John Karageorge
Executive Director, Issuer Solutions, Special Situations
John Karageorge is an Executive Director at S&P Global in our Issuer Solutions division and heads up our Activist Defense Surveillance group. John brings 31 years of experience in tracking activist campaigns, having identified hundreds of initiations by activist investors.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Ken Shimokawa
Head of Americas Sell-Side, Data & Research
Ken Shimokawa is Head of Americas Sell-Side for the Data & Research business at S&P Global Market Intelligence. In this role, he is responsible for leading product and market development focused on the Sell-Side segment. He has 15+ years’ experience in the information services industry and frequently speaks on industry webinars and has authored numerous research pieces on subjects including global equity capital markers activity, private equity and venture capital trends, and investor activism.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Najy Nahkle
Director, Investor Relations
Najy carries more than 15 years of experience in capital surveillance and targeting advisory services. He is the Director of the Healthcare Capital Surveillance and Targeting Advisory team within S&P Global Market Intelligence. He also serves as Co-Head of the Activist Committee at S&P Global. Najy has vast expertise in investor relations best practices and possesses a deep knowledge of the capital markets. Najy is also experienced in identifying and tracking activist investors through broker accumulations, cash-settled swaps, and other derivative instruments.
Questions?
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