Answered By: Lippincott Library
Last Updated: Jan 26, 2024     Views: 1002

You can view an overview of a company's takeover defense using LSEG Workspace (formerly Refinitiv). Select the Corporate Governance tab from a company's profile

For historical takeover defense information, go to WRDS (see access details).

  • ​Search the BoardExISS, and MSCI GMI Ratings, and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS)- Governance datasets.

Use FactSet (see access details). Defenses are viewable from a company's profile, or screen more broadly using the Takeover Defense option in the Corporate Governance screening. 

Information specific to poison pills is also available in SDC Platinum, a database available in Lippincott Library (machines 8A and 8B).

  • Choose Corporate Governance, then select poison pills