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...Walt Disney chief executive Bob Iger has won the backing of influential proxy adviser Glass Lewis in his battle against billionaire activist Nelson Peltz, with the group unconvinced that the latter’s plans...
...Activist investor Nelson Peltz has recently upped his stake in the entertainment giant and is looking to push for board seats, the Financial Times has reported....
...Brian Nelson, under-secretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, said the US was “committed to exposing Russia’s extensive campaigns of government-directed deception, which are intended...
...ValueAct is the latest to smell blood at Disney Not long after Nelson Peltz’s Trian Partners revived its campaign at Disney and Daniel Loeb’s Third Point began calling for sweeping changes at the company...
...Mockney wheeler dealer “Del Boy” Trotter was known for his French language faux pas and council flat in Nelson Mandela House, London....
...Activist investor Nelson Peltz has called off his fight against Walt Disney a day after the company unveiled a restructuring plan involving the loss of 7,000 jobs, ending one of the biggest corporate battles...
...Peltz gets off the Disney ride Nelson Peltz has hung up his mouse ears, for now....
...At around midday on Monday, Leon Black, co-founder of Apollo Global, was eating a sandwich at a table with Nelson Peltz, the billionaire activist investor, and his lieutenant and son-in-law Ed Garden....
...Nelson Peltz has won his battle to join the board of Janus Henderson, as the activist investor keeps up the pressure for sweeping changes at the $419bn US asset manager....
...The rejection comes days after Bezos wrote to Nasa administrator Bill Nelson offering to cover $2bn in costs in this fiscal year and the next two, in exchange for being awarded the contract — an offer that...
...In a letter to Bill Nelson, the US space agency’s administrator, Bezos said his company would waive up to $2bn for the current and next two government fiscal years, as well as fund a demonstration mission...
...But activists have taken a run at Danone before — Nelson Peltz’s Trian Partners in 2012, and a brief foray by Corvex in 2017....
...Seed Beauty, coincidentally founded by another sibling duo, Laura and John Nelson, is calling those deals into question....
...Latham & Watkins has hired Edward Nelson as a partner in the law firm’s corporate department in New York. He joins from Gibson Dunn. Ashurst has hired Fabien Debroise as a partner in its banking team....
...The FT's editor Lionel Barber debated media issues with BBC broadcaster Mishal Husain and Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator, at the FT Weekend Festival last Saturday. Here's an edited transcript....
...Nelson Griggs, president of the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, described the SEC project as “ill-conceived,” adding that US companies were being used as guinea pigs....
...Even funds like Nelson Peltz’s Trian Partners, which prefers to be known as an “active shareholder” rather than an activist, has turned more aggressive lately....
...This week Uber hired a seasoned Wall Street insider to pitch itself to banks and investors, and Nelson Chai says he is up for it....
...Many involved in the industry say the scrutiny was sparked by a debacle at Procter & Gamble last year, when it took two months to work out if activist investor Nelson Peltz had won a seat on the consumer...
...Too often, it takes a noisy activist to pique shareholder interest, as Nelson Peltz did last year at Procter & Gamble, and Carl Icahn has been doing recently at Xerox....
...And at its headquarters in Times Square, Nasdaq has given exchange veteran Nelson Griggs oversight of its corporation solutions business, which sells companies investor relations and board services, as well...
...The biggest names in shareholder activism — Mr Icahn, Paul Singer of Elliott Management, Nelson Peltz at Trian Partners, Jeff Ubben of ValueAct and Barry Rosenstein of Jana Partners — are not necessarily...
...Nelson Peltz, chief executive of Trian Partners, was denied a board seat with Procter & Gamble, the consumer goods giant said on Tuesday, marking a victory for it in the largest proxy battle ever....
...We firmly believe adding Nelson Peltz to the P&G board would derail our progress.”...
...In 2012 Nelson Peltz’s firm Trian built up a 1 per cent stake worth about €300m....
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