Sentences with phrase «as a proxy fight»

On the left, it serves as a proxy fight over standardized testing being tied to teacher evaluations.

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In addition to Jacobson, six others of the 10 - member board will be replaced by members backed by Icahn and Deason, while the two shareholders will withdraw their proxy fight as part of the settlement.

In 2012 Ackman was instrumental in a proxy fight that installed Hunter Harrison as CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway; he is currently involved in a hostile takeover attempt of of Botox maker Allergan by Quebec's Valeant Pharmaceuticals.

In fact, they have already launched a proxy fight and are committed to sending out their board director ballots to shareholders, as well as paying organizations to advocate on their behalf.

Camber Capital Management, a hedge fund with an activist history, has purchased 5.7 million shares of Tenet Healthcare Corp., or a 5.7 % stake in the money - losing hospital chain.The emergence of Camber was disclosed Monday, just three days after Tenet's largest shareholder, Glenview Capital Management, resigned two Tenet board seats, citing irreconcilable differences with management and the board.Glenview Capital, which owns an 18 % stake in Tenet, gave notice Friday that it would no longer participate in a stand - still agreement that had prevented it from launching a proxy fight for control of the company.Tenet investors welcomed the Camber disclosure Monday, driving up Tenet's stock price to $ 2.18, or 15 %, to $ 16.63 as of 12:30 p.m. ET.Tenet is the nation's third - largest investor - owned

Wayne is a proven senior executive and lawyer with over 25 years business experience, most recently as Executive Vice-President of Kingsdale Shareholder Service, a company involved in providing strategic consulting and other services to companies involved in takeover bids and proxy fights.

The potential proxy fight comes as NTN tries to keep its shares from being delisted from the NYSE American stock exchange.

Political communism failed due to the policy of encirclement by the Western powers, a war of attrition fought through proxy wars - otherwise known as the Cold War - a hot war between the two main powers would have been simply too dangerous given the preponderance of nuclear weapon technology on both sides.

As we have noted before, these contests often shape up as proxy battles for larger factional fights within a partAs we have noted before, these contests often shape up as proxy battles for larger factional fights within a partas proxy battles for larger factional fights within a party.

Beliveau while acknowledging the importance of antioxidants cautions overemphasizing this as a health metric (proxy)(See pages 60 to 64 in Beliveau's Foods to Fight Cancer).

Park and company stage a soccer match as a proxy battle between Team Aardman and Team Pixar (and Everybody Else), but true to form, there's not a whiff of hostility in the fight.

As we've discussed recently in the context of the Biotechnology Value Fund (BVF) proxy fight for the board of Avigen Inc (NASDAQ: AVGN)(see our post archive here), achieving a supermajority is nigh on impossible.

As we've discussed recently in the context of the Biotechnology Value Fund (BVF) proxy fight for the board of Avigen Inc -LSB-...]

As we've discussed recently in the context of the Biotechnology Value Fund (BVF) proxy fight for the board of Avigen -LSB-...]

We invest as very active owners, preferring to have strong friendly relationships with the portfolio company managements and boards, but never afraid to take any and all measures that are in the best interests of protecting and creating value, including proxy fights or other legal steps.

In contradistinction to the takeover battles of the 80s, the dogfights in the 40s, 50s, and 60s were largely proxy fights, and in as much, should be familiar to today's «activist investors.»

Nocera was discussing the concept of «activist investors» and «shareholder value» specifically as it pertained to Nelson Peltz, Trian Investments, and a proxy fight with the management and board of DuPont.

Investors such as Carl Icahn have long used proxy fights to put pressure on companies and their managements.

While the opposition complains about the «distraction» of this proxy fight and my lack experience, they are making thousands of dollars each day as we lose more and more money on our investment in the company.

Bouncing back from their lowest level in more than a decade, proxy fights have increased dramatically thus far in 2001 and are running at nearly twice the pace as they were last year, according to Institutional Shareholder Services.

The shareholder vote for both the proxy fight to replace the board and liquidate the company as well as the merger agreement will take place at the next annual meeting.

You play as a robot, fighting on behalf of humans in a proxy war for control of a ruined earth.

As of late, peers note that «they have been doing much more plaintiff work — shareholder disputes, proxy fights — and they've got about eight or nine cases in that area on the go right now.»

In this aspect women in particular (thanks to Gardners sterotyping) are told to leave their abusers and are supported therein, but as soon as it happens and they are fighting for sole parental responsibilities to protect their child from exploitation and as a proxy for continued abuse, they are labeled «mother gaters» or alienators.

We find that money is often symbolic of so many things: class, sex, power, competition, etc. and is frequently used as a proxy for fighting.