Posts Tagged ‘proxy fight’
Activist Shareholder Daniel Loeb Could Strike Sooner Than Yahoo Thinks – All Things Digital
Activist Shareholder Daniel Loeb Could Strike Sooner Than Yahoo ThinksAll Things DigitalWhile deciding whether to mount a proxy fight — a potentially nasty public fight with the Silicon Valley Internet giant that sources said could start much earlier... Read the rest of this entry »
Ready to Rumble or Make Nice? Activist Shareholder Daniel Loeb Could Strike Sooner Than Yahoo Thinks (BoomTown)
For someone who is still mulling things over about what to do about his more than five percent investment in Yahoo, hedge fund investor and activist shareholder Daniel Loeb has been very busy lately getting his arsenal ready. While deciding whether to ... Read the rest of this entry »
Military contract managed in Warren at center of Carl Icahn’s proxy fight for … – Crain’s Detroit Business
Military contract managed in Warren at center of Carl Icahn's proxy fight for ...Crain's Detroit BusinessIcahn launched a proxy solicitation to shareholders in November and went public in December with his interest in an Oshkosh-Navistar merger. He... Read the rest of this entry »
A Lesson in Feel-Good Investments – Motley Fool
A Lesson in Feel-Good InvestmentsMotley FoolThis public perception, coupled to a cocktail of proxy fights and blistering letters to management, has given Ackman a bad boy image among activist investors. Ackman hedge fund Pershing Square's proxy fig... Read the rest of this entry »
Battle for control of CP Rail centres on proxy fight (Toronto Star)
Proxy fight over control of CP Railway will be messy and public as U.S. hedge fund founder Bill Ackman targets iconic Canadian firm.Source : Toronto Star Read the rest of this entry »
Changes in 2012 for Cracker Barrel’s legal eagle… (Footnoted.org)
... sparring with Sardar Biglari (of Biglari Holdings, Inc. ), who has waged an incessant, very public, and paper-intensive proxy fight to grab a seat on Cracker Barrel’s board. (In fact, we wrote about the topic less than two weeks ago, in this post... Read the rest of this entry »
Changes in 2012 for Cracker Barrel’s legal eagle… (Footnoted.org)
... sparring with Sardar Biglari (of Biglari Holdings, Inc. ), who has waged an incessant, very public, and paper-intensive proxy fight to grab a seat on Cracker Barrel’s board. (In fact, we wrote about the topic less than two weeks ago, in this post... Read the rest of this entry »
Cracker Barrel, Biglari escalate board battle – Nation’s Restaurant News
Proactive Investors USA & CanadaCracker Barrel, Biglari escalate board battleNation's Restaurant News1 presentation on the proxy fight filed with regulators. The presentation “shows how we believe Cracker Barrel has stayed focused on its objectives, Read the rest of this entry »
A Buffett Devotee Riles His Targets – Wall Street Journal
A Buffett Devotee Riles His TargetsWall Street JournalThe company recently adopted a poison-pill antitakeover provision, and Mr. Biglari launched a proxy fight to get himself elected to the board. "Warren Buffett charms people. Sardar Biglari does... Read the rest of this entry »
After Proxy Fight, Regis Adds Eighth Board Member – Twin Cities Business (blog)
After Proxy Fight, Regis Adds Eighth Board MemberTwin Cities Business (blog)It points out that when the firm won a disputed proxy contest at Eden Prairie-based Surmodics last year, the company soon after said it would slash its work force by nine perce... Read the rest of this entry »