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Elliott Investment Management and Southwest Airlines Co. have begun discussing a potential settlement that would avoid a proxy fight for…
The brewing proxy fight between activist Starboard Value and pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has already taken a hostile turn. Anonymous sources…
Starboard Value LP is pushing News Corp. to eliminate its dual-class share structure and is prepared to take further action…
Elliott Investment Management plans to nominate a slate of candidates for Southwest Airlines Co.’s board, escalating the activist investor’s push…
In the first half of the year, 449 U.S. companies were subject to demands from activist investors, a 9% jump…
It’s not every day that a firm tells shareholders to disavow any and all comments from its parent company’s largest…
Southwest Airlines Co. appointed aviation industry veteran Rakesh Gangwal to its board, an effort to fortify the carrier’s leadership amid…
Former Republican presidential candidate and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has purchased a minority stake in BuzzFeed, the digital publishing company…
Elliott Investment Management has built a roughly $1 billion stake in Anglo American Plc, the UK-listed miner that’s received an…
Elon Musk, the world’s third richest man, promised Disney shareholders he would dip into his vast wealth to buy up…