Mr. Peltz, a longtime activist investor , has singled out Ms. Nooyi of Pepsi, Ms. Kullman of DuPont and Ms. Rosenfeld of Mondelez. Starboard Value, another activist fund, has set its sights on Yahoo and Ms. Mayer. J. Kyle Bass, the investor who predicted the ...
At Greenhill, Mr. Dilg will continue to focus on energy companies, including mergers and activist shareholder campaigns. The said he would also work with its restructuring practice to help oil companies struggling with the steep drop in oil prices ...
The paper took aim at Lucian A. Bebchuk, a Harvard Law School professor who has long researched corporate governance issues and has been an outspoken advocate for increased democracy in corporate America's boardrooms . Through Harvard's ...
LONDON – A British corporate governance watchdog said on Monday that it had begun an investigation into the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers' auditing of Barclays after the British bank was fined this year for failing to properly segregate ...
It's a clash of Wall Street troublemakers: the biggest character in financial TV versus a poison-pen activist investor . The mad money that James J. Cramer collects from TheStreet Inc. is, however, fair game for his fellow blowhard. J. Carlo Cannell wants Mr...
Nevertheless, the activist investor Nelson Peltz is agitating to split PepsiCo in two, just as he did with Kraft. But both Kraft and its spin-out, Mondelez, are struggling. DuPont Perhaps stung by his inability to influence PepsiCo, Mr. Peltz is trying to break DuPont ...
Carl Icahn, the 78-year-old activist investor , has been has become Apple's most persistent gadfly.Credit Heidi Gutman/CNBC. Carl C. Icahn, the billionaire activist investor , urged Apple on Thursday to use a portion of the company's $133 billion cash reserves ...
Globalstar is a satellite communications company.Credit Globalstar, via Globe Newswire. A little-known activist investor , Sahm Adrangi, has declared war on Globalstar, the multibillion-dollar satellite communications company, contending that it is ...
Ralph V. Whitworth, a co-founder of Relational Investors, has been won praise as an activist investor .Credit Denis Poroy/Associated Press. Relational Investors, one of the most prominent activist investors, is planning to start a new fund that will give more ...
Auxilium Pharmaceuticals said on Monday that its board of directors had rejected an unsolicited takeover approach from Endo International, a pharmaceutical company that struck an inversion last year and reincorporated in Ireland. Auxilium ...
The activist investor Edward J. Bramson has called for a shareholder meeting as he seeks seats on Electra Private Equity’s board of directors...
At a time of rising expectations for institutional investors to assume “stewardship” responsibilities for the companies they invest in, it is doubtful that underweight shareholders can fulfill this role credibly, writes Simon C.Y. Wong...
The suit calls into focus one of the central issues at play: whether Mr. Ackman improperly built up his nearly 10 percent stake in Allergan as he prepared to make a bid with Valeant for Allergan.
The deal comes amid pressure on Family Dollar by the activist investor Carl C. Icahn, who urged the company last month to explore a sale of itself...
Two years ago, the solar power company SunEdison was in a crisis. Its shares had plunged to about $1.50 each, reaching five-year lows, as Chinese solar panels undercut American offerings. Credit rating agencies had downgraded its outlook. And an ...
The hedge fund Trian Partners disclosed a 0.8 percent stake in the bank and has since increased it to 2.5 percent, according to a person close to the firm...
The CtW Investment Group, while owning less than 1 percent of Walgreen’s shares, becomes one of the first investment groups to publicly push back against an increasingly popular maneuver...
An independently issued memo from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton reaffirms how William A. Ackman's unusual hostile bid was within the legal bounds...
The activist investor SpringOwl plans to announce on Thursday that it is waging a proxy battle to bring change to Bwin.Party, the British online gambling company...
Crawford Gillies, who was the managing director for Europe at Bain & Company from 2001 to 2005, will join the Barclays board of directors on May 1 and eventually replace John Sunderland as chairman of its remuneration committee...
In BlackRock's latest annual letter, the firm's chairman, Laurence D. Fink, wrote that he planned to continue to use the firm's financial might in speaking out for investors on matters like corporate governance...
For Mr. Lipton, who invented the poison pill defense against activists and hostile bidders as a founder of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, the duty of corporate directors is to transcend the short-term desires of investors. “My view of corporate ...
A hedge fund, Corvex Management, and a real estate developer, Related Fund Management, persuaded shareholders representing more than 81 percent of the company's outstanding stock to vote to replace the board of CommonWealth REIT...