If you’re interested in the use of AI for proxy voting recommendations in contested elections, check out Meredith’s recent podcast with Kekst CNC’s Co-CEO Lyndsey Estin and the co-leader of the firm’s Investor Relations and Contested Situations Practice, Nick Capuano. Lyndsey and Nick joined Meredith to discuss Kekst’s recent analysis of how voting recommendations from LLMs compare to those from the major proxy advisory firms across nearly 50 proxy contests. Topics covered in this 24-minute podcast include:

– How Kekst Conducted their Study
– The Headline: LLM Recommendations Lean toward Activists
– Beyond the Headline: Digging into the Data
– How LLM Recommendations Differed from Each Other
– The Sources and Rationales that Most Persuaded the LLMs
– The Sources and Rationales that Held Less Sway with the LLMs
– What this Means for Company Communications in Proxy Contests

We’ve been cranking out podcasts lately and we have several more in the hopper that we expect to post during the next month. If you’re interested in sharing your insights on a topic that you think would likely be of interest to members of TheCorporateCounsel.net or our other sites, we’d love to hear from you. You can contact me at john@thecorporatecounsel.net or Meredith at mervine@ccrcorp.com.

– John Jenkins