As the annual meeting season gets underway, a variety of companies across Europe – especially in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands – face a potential wave of shareholder challenges to their board structure – when companies try to retain a retiring CEO by elevating that person to chair of the board.
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As the annual meeting season gets underway, a variety of companies across Europe – especially in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands – face a potential wave of shareholder challenges to their board structure – when companies try to retain a retiring CEO by elevating that person to chair of the board.