Shareholder activism trends in 2019 remained largely consistent with prior years, perhaps underscoring the lasting role that shareholder activism will play in the foreseeable future. But the advent of COVID-19 ruptured existing patterns of market, investor and activist engagement that would have otherwise continued through the second quarter and second half of 2020.

In this chapter of our 18th Annual Corporate Governance & Executive Compensation Survey, we discuss the shareholder activism trends that arose during the past year and how the pandemic is expected to impact it going forward.

Read "Recent Shareholder Activism Trends."

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