You’re sitting at the kitchen table, bills spread out, phones buzzing, and a tight feeling in your chest. You both agree the marriage is over, but you don’t agree on much else—who keeps the house, how to split the savings, where the kids will...

When a public company is being sold, shareholders have a lot to sort through before they vote on the deal.The offer price may get most of the attention, but the proxy statement contains much more: how the board evaluated the transaction, what alternatives it...