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Consolidation: Activist Investing Daily
2015-11-11 14:33:28| Railroads - Topix.net
As alluded to the other week, Ed Breen has took over as permanent DuPont CEO, which is a big positive for potentially splitting up the company . Nelson Peltz is the activist involved, who started pushing for a break up of the chemical company last year, but lost a proxy battle.
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Activist Elliott fights Dialog bid for Atmel
2015-11-10 00:55:24| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Activist hedge fund Elliott Management called on fellow shareholders in Dialog Semiconductor PLC to vote against the U.K. based chip maker's planned $4.6 billion acquisition of U.S. peer Atmel Corp. in a move that threatens to derail the deal.
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Insight - Activist stampede pushes board directors into
2015-11-08 17:11:29| Biotech - Topix.net
A few days after joining the board of Atlantic Power, private equity veteran Gilbert Palter said he got a flurry of calls from the energy company's top shareholders, who wanted more than just to wish him well. "They wanted to hear my perspective on the company.
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Splits And Frauds: Activist Investing Daily
2015-11-06 18:53:12| Furniture - Topix.net
This is the splits and frauds version of the activist investing daily, with a couple companies facing pressure to split up and a possible fraud. Recall that Nelson Peltz is the activist at DuPont , having waged a proxy battle earlier this year.
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Liberal 'Net Neutrality' Activist Given Vast Subpoena Power
2015-10-29 20:42:10| IT Services - Topix.net
Liberal political activist Tim Wu is wasting no time using his new power as a member of the New York Attorney General's staff to issue subpoenas without prior judicial approval to force major Internet Service Providers to hand over documents and other material. Wu is known chiefly as a vocal advocate of new federal laws or regulations barring ISPs from charging customers variable rates for moving their content on the Internet.
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