Sentences with phrase «about shareholder activists»

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They must either accept his bid to buy out shareholders for $ 13.65 (or about $ 24 billion), or vote it down, forcing Dell and his backers into an even more protracted battle with activist shareholder Carl Icahn.

Yahoo had to deal with some nasty shareholder activist campaigns, and several readers asked about your thoughts on activism.

April 24 (Reuters)- U.S. supermarket operator Supervalu Inc said on Tuesday it would sell eight of its distribution centers to an undisclosed buyer for about $ 483 million following pressure from activist shareholders, sending its shares up 3 percent.

So the activist's lobbying activities have to be limited: He can make public pronouncements about what changes he wants at Hertz, but an actual dialogue with other shareholders is dangerous.

This DealBook article about the new alliances between activist hedge funds and long - only institutional shareholders is full of enjoyable oddities; here is my favorite part:

3 But if you subscribe to the simple activist - shareholder model, in which activists (1) identify underperforming companies, (2) buy up those companies» (cheap) stock, (3) push the companies to improve, and then (4) reap (a portion of) the rewards of that improvement, what do you think about this development?

Enter Carl Icahn, activist shareholder, who had his own ideas about how Blockbuster should be managed and particularly about Antioco's compensation package.

Among the topics on the agenda: the evolution of shareholder activism and research findings about activist funds» returns, the amended Shareholder Rights Directive (EU) 2017/828, litigation and its effectiveness as tool for activist investors, and what can an issuer do to adequately address activists» new shareholder activism and research findings about activist funds» returns, the amended Shareholder Rights Directive (EU) 2017/828, litigation and its effectiveness as tool for activist investors, and what can an issuer do to adequately address activists» new Shareholder Rights Directive (EU) 2017/828, litigation and its effectiveness as tool for activist investors, and what can an issuer do to adequately address activists» new challenges.

On today's show we talk about: Berkshire's 2017 shareholder letter Will Berkshire Hathaway eventually get broken up by activists?

It's about keeping corporate managements apprised of what activist shareholders and corporate raiders are doing.

Coincide, or not, Carl Icahn wrote a letter to Apple shareholders today saying that there is «no reason to persist» with his offer and that the activist hedge fund is «extremely excited about Apple's future.»

When executives at Pearson, the world's largest for - profit education company, held their London shareholder meeting Friday, they were greeted by activists from the American Federation of Teachers, urging them to oppose so - called «gag orders» restricting teachers from revealing information about Pearson's Common Core tests.

The authors seek to address the questions posed by «critics and regulators» about the benefits of hedge fund activism to shareholders and the claim that hedge fund activists «destroy value by distracting managers from long - term projects.»

At the 2014 Berkshire shareholder meeting, Warren Buffett was asked about activist investing.

On today's show we talk about: Berkshire's 2017 shareholder letter Will Berkshire Hathaway eventually get broken up by activists?

In the lecture, Icahn talks about how he started out in finance and evolved into a shareholder activist.

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Klien and Zur define an entrepreneurial shareholder activist as «an investor who buys a large stake in a publicly held corporation with the intention to bring about change and thereby realize a profit on the investment,» which seems quite broad.

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The «ownership» rights that the government, as a shareholder, is now talking about are the same ones that activist shareholders have been demanding for years.

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We've previously posted about INFS here, here and here, writing that it is a deeply undervalued asset situation with two activist investors, Nery Capital Partners and Lloyd I. Miller, III, pushing the company to «consider the views expressed by its shareholders and pursue new alternatives to increase shareholder value.»

Instead of the accusation from Schneiderman et al. being that Exxon engaged in racketeering in order to misinform its shareholders about the certainty of man - caused global warming, the question should be asked if a particular clique of enviro - activists (Gore, Oreskes, Gelbspan and those at «Greenpeace USA née Ozone Action» http://gelbspanfiles.com/?p=4482) instead engaged in racketeering when it comes to hoodwinking environmentalist donors about the certainty that skeptic climate scientists are «industry - paid crooks.»

It is one thing for me to tell students that shareholders can be activists or that managers care about their employees; it is another for them to hear from actors in real business situations in their own words.

With the arrival of activist shareholder Bill Ackman in Canada, panel moderator and Ohio State University law professor Steven Davidoff kicked off the session with a discussion about the current climate for activists and how to deal with them.

Carl Icahn, the activist investor, is its biggest shareholder with about 19 percent ownership of Nuance as of March 31.

About Blog As a leading shareholder activist, Carl Icahn's efforts have unlocked billions of dollars of shareholder and bondholder value and have improved the competitiveness of American companies.

Nussbaum described the VEB shareholder group as a Ralph Nader - like activist organization and said it is using the Dutch courts to voice its concerns about the deal.