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I am excited to be acting in support of Sheryl's journey towards delivering next gen IR through more inclusive retail engagement, initially through attending several of the upcoming AGMs. One thing that has struck me early doors on the Odyssey is that there does seem to be very little co-ordination among PLCs regarding the timing of their AGMs with many peak timings having around ten AGMs taking place at exactly the same time. It might be impossible to avoid some clashes (with c. 2,000 listed companies), but given that most AGMs last only around 10 minutes it wouldn't be too difficult to for companies to spread the start times across the hour to facilitate virtual attendance by individuals at more AGMs than is currently physically possible. IROs already tend to coordinate the timings of their results announcements and presentations, particularly across their sector, but there doesn't currently seem to be the same level of coordination happening in the market at the moment for AGMs.

Lakshmikumaran and Sridharan attorneys, Khaitan & Co act on Yotto Data Services' acquisition of Apiculus LKS: Kunal 'RC' Arora, Dikshita Damodaran, Archit Gupta and Anusha Mohapatra. Khaitan & Co represented Yotta Data Services on this transaction. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/df7jjQbD #BarandBench #Dealstreet #Lawfirm #Lawfirms

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The long-time AGM dream: Here is some background to the journey that I and The Engagement Appeal - TEA are taking ✨ Think me crazy, but those who have known me for some time or worked with me will know about my 'dream' of owning shares in every single listed company and attending AGMs every day. I speak about this 'dream' very regularly, including in this video from February 2023 when I participated in a talk at The Conduit organised by Tulipshare with Jenna Armitage, Farah Cohen, and an incredible woman who has become one of my and TEA's academic inspirations and intellectual backbone of our AGM engagement work, Professor Janette Rutterford. In typical Janette-style, the good Professor educates me and the audience on the fact that I am following in a long line of 'slightly odd' women who did exactly what I am contemplating - they bought at least one share in many listed companies and attended the AGMs! Janette mentions two Americans, Wilma Soss and Evelyn Davis, who TEA has written about in our in our #2024IWD celebrations, as well as an icredible Brit, about whom the FT wrote 'eulogising articles'. Still very early days for the AGM ‘Odyssey’, but already, I am proud of what has been achieved to date: 📈Share positions acquired across 700 UK-listed companies, c. 490 of which are through interactive investor (ii) and the rest through Trading 212. ⚡️I have now tried and tested ii's proxy voting system (offered by Broadridge) and I can say that it has indeed worked for our immediate needs and supports shareholder democracy by facilitating nominee beneficial holder voting participation like never before. The stacks of physical paper is not ideal 🌎but compared to how things was before, the system is not bad. 💌 AGM attendance request process via letters of representation (LOR) also proven to be effective. Since trialling ii's proxy voting app religiously from end of March, I! have received LORs in relation to (138) companies! 🤯Given that the AGMs are mostly all scheduled to take place at the same time - between 9am and 12pm, and are largely still only in-person 😢, I am physically not able to attend most / many of the meetings, so 1) I am making sure to at least email all the companies for which I have received LORs to lodge my questions, and 2) I am now starting to get colleagues to help me attend the meetings. Companies, why not sign up to Investor Meet Company or Lumi Global? Some very interesting AGMs so far, with many more to follow this week. Good engagement thus far and I look forward to this continuing. Follow me and the team on our journey on teaxall.org and FinGlitz.io. Full Conduit video here: https://lnkd.in/eG6Kq7qe #agm2024 #agm #corporategovernance #shareholderengagement #ir #investorrelations Sarah Penney Louise Ahuja Unizel Go Morten Letitia Trimmer Joseph Vambe Niam Patel Dan Mavr Christina Graham Karin Schulte Angeli Arora Wilfred Louwsma Maria Siano More Diverse Voices

Today, I had the pleasure of representing ETNO Association at the BEREC Workshop on End-Users Rights, where I participated in a great panel discussing technological and legal trends impacting #consumer protection alongside representatives from Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC), European Commission, BEUC - The European Consumer Organisation, and Atos. My key messages: 1) #Connectivity services need to evolve to keep up with end-user habits and expectations, and with #data traffic surge driven by #video and #IoT. 2) Affordability remain a must, with telecom #prices consistently declining over the past 20 years in Europe. But users want more: telcos will need to offer innovative propositions mixing core and value-added services. 3) The concept of #ECS is evolving, so is the one of ECS provider. New ECS will emerge and the lines between telcos, #cloud, and #OTT will continue to blur. #regulation must keep pace with technological change: simplification, reliance on #horizontal rules, and #harmonization would level the playing field and promote cross-border services. Looking forward to continuing the discussion!

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