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...The leading men of Wall Street used to be swashbuckling raiders such as T Boone Pickens and Carl Icahn who scorched the earth in takeovers of storied companies....
...Boone Pickens, who has died at the age of 91, was the very model of the corporate raider....
...In the 1980s and 1990s, for example, Goldman was known for putting up defences against debt-fuelled raiders such as Carl Icahn and T Boone Pickens, and for forcing high prices for companies if boards wanted...
...Mary Boone and Jean-Michel Basquiat tells us that at one point he was part of the NY art scene....
...Laurence Boone, chief economist of the Axa group and a former adviser to the French president, said services would be the “most problematic” area....
...“People buy contemporary art because it speaks to our own time,” said Ron Warren, director at Mary Boone gallery....
...Carl Icahn, who helped engineer McClendon’s exit from Chesapeake after taking a stake in the company in 2012, said on Twitter he was saddened to hear the news....
...Boone Pickens, “as smooth as a stucco bathtub”, but his returns speak for themselves....
...“Shareholders should be tickled to death when he shows up,” says T Boone Pickens, another veteran corporate raider and a friend of Mr Icahn....
...An active investor – in the mould of Carl Icahn or T. Boone Pickens – might eye up the companies and naively agitate for a break-up....
...Boone Pickens before founding Relational Investors in 1996, which has $6bn under management and stakes in Hewlett-Packard and PepsiCo Barry Rosenstein: Break-up artist Founded Jana Partners in 2001....
...Boone Pickens. Wasserstein left First Boston in 1988 to form his boutique with Mr Perella, famously insisting on his own name coming before his partner’s....
...Icahn and T Boone Pickens)....
...and Carl Icahn....
...This comes in the wake of T Boone Pickens’ disclosure that he had packed his bags as well, selling his 10m share stake at a loss....
...Boone Pickens is also supporting Icahn, saying earlier that he had acquired 10m shares in Yahoo....
...Carl Icahn, the billionaire activist shareholder, defused what little tension remained around the meeting by announcing his non-attendance on Thursday....
...Carl Icahn, like Mr Pickens a veteran of shareholder revolts in the 1980s, sits on the Yahoo board after his failed effort to force the company into a deal with Microsoft....
...But Carl Gilleard, chief executive of the Association of Graduate Recruiters, says many of them are unwilling to dedicate extra resources to scrutinising every CV that comes across their desk....
...Boone Pickens, the Texas oilman who was shaking up corporate America through no-holds-barred, hostile takeovers....
...The fund also got money from Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor, filings show....
...Carl Icahn, T. Boone Pickens and other fearless luminaries of US finance made their names with such tactics. The lexicon of finance is now a kinder place. Yesterday’s raiders are today’s activists....
...The wave of restructuring in the US corporate sector in the 1980s was driven initially by corporate raiders such as Carl Icahn and T Boone Pickens, who argued that companies would be worth more if broken...
...Boone Pickens’ age....
...But the original agitators were forgotten by the early 1980s, when Carl Icahn, T. Boone Pickens and a new breed of voluble investor came along....
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