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Code green: Activist investors target environmental offenders

Alvarez & Marsal looks at 1,300 European companies and finds the worst performers on ESG are more susceptible to activist intervention

Green activism is the new greenmail.

It may not be the controversial “greenmail” of the 1980s, when corporate raiders demanded money from companies to lift their sieges, but green is making a comeback in shareholder activism.

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