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Invesco vs Zee latest shareholder activist challenge to falter in Asia

Aggressive, no-holds-barred shareholder activism has met with plenty of cultural resistance in Asia

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Zee’s streaming service plans to cater to non-Hindi-speaking audiences. (Photo: Bloomberg)

Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg
Aggressive, no-holds-barred shareholder activism has met with plenty of cultural resistance in Asia, most notably in Japan and South Korea. Now, it’s India’s turn to curb American investors’ enthusiasm.
 
Or so it would seem from the latest twist in the fight over Zee Entertainment Ltd., the country’s largest publicly traded television network. “Sometimes, it happens that a company must be saved from its own shareholders, however well-intentioned,” said Justice G.S. Patel of the Bombay High Court, temporarily restraining Atlanta-based Invesco Developing Markets Fund from calling an investors meeting to oust the board.

The injunction is unlikely to be the end

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