Morrow Sodali, the global shareholder engagement and governance consulting firm, announced that it had today been ranked #1 among proxy solicitors in U.S M&A transactions for the first quarter of 2021 by The Deal, continuing the firm’s #1 ranking for the full year 2020 and up from the firm’s #3 position in the first quarter of 2020.  In addition, Morrow Sodali climbed to the #2 position among proxy solicitors acting for corporate clients in activism situations in 2020, moving up from the #4 position in Refinitiv’s Global Shareholder Activism Scorecard announced last month.