Hints and tips:
...Even activists are gaining some traction: while electronics group Sony rejected a break-up proposal from activist Dan Loeb’s Third Point last year, it has begun a smaller restructuring....
...Boone Pickens who in 1989 acquired more than one-quarter of the shares in an automotive parts company called Koito Manufacturing....
...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....
...Mr Whitworth founded Relational in 1996 with David Batchelder, a fellow acolyte of Texas oilman T Boone Pickens....
...Boone Pickens is also supporting Icahn, saying earlier that he had acquired 10m shares in Yahoo....
...Dan Nees, an associate at the World Resources Institute, thinks new pricing mechanisms are inevitable....
...Boone Pickens, the Texas oilman who was shaking up corporate America through no-holds-barred, hostile takeovers....
...Dan Loseb, the US activist with the acerbic pen, tied for 20th with $150m....
...Boone Pickens’ age....
...Boone Pickens and a new breed of voluble investor came along. Nonetheless, knowingly or not, today’s activists are still borrowing heavily from the playbook written by Wolfson and his ilk....
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