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...That sum would top the $60mn that the WSJ estimated Peltz and Procter & Gamble spent waging a proxy battle in 2017. Peltz is not without wins, of course....
...Smart reads Peltz’s sequel Billionaire Nelson Peltz lost big in his battle against Disney....
...Williams is now tasked with kicking off the SDNY’s crypto crackdown with a bang. Expect a fierce battle ahead....
...The activist sought five seats on the company’s board after it rejected his turnround plan, claiming its chief executive William Johnson had mismanaged the company....
...But he later became a consigliere of Heinz’s CEO William Johnson despite initially humiliating the US food group’s boss....
...Peltz gets off the Disney ride Nelson Peltz has hung up his mouse ears, for now....
...A showdown is expected at Disney’s annual meeting in April, with Marvel chair Isaac Perlmutter as Peltz’s primary backer in the corporate struggle....
...Tomorrow’s coronation coincides with a rise in public support for the new monarch but declining interest in the institution, reports William Wallis....
...Wall Street’s top cop trains his sights on crypto Damian Williams made history well before he brought criminal charges against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried....
...William D Cohan captures that drama exceptionally well in Power Failure....
...His decision came after Trian, the hedge fund run by Nelson Peltz, increased its holding in Janus Henderson to 15 per cent and called for independent new directors to be appointed to the board, according...
...It’s a message that’s not exactly being extended to activist investor Nelson Peltz, who kicked off his 2023 with a strident campaign against Disney....
...The trial of FTX’s founder Sam Bankman-Fried is a big test for Wall Street’s top cop Damian Williams....
...Carlyle elevated two dealmakers, Kewsong Lee and Glenn Youngkin, as co-chief executives to take over from founders David Rubenstein, William Conway and Daniel D’Aniello....
...Earnings Disney reports its first quarterly earnings since activist investor Nelson Peltz built a $900mn stake in the entertainment group and tried to force his way on to the board....
...Unilever shares rise after Nelson Peltz stake revealed Trian Partners, which has previously demanded reforms at Procter & Gamble and Mondolez, has built a stake in UK consumer goods group Unilever....
...Initially Peltz locked horns with chief executive William Johnson, who claimed he “doesn’t understand our business” and warned that if he got “on the board, you’re going to have a destabilising situation...
...Pfizer has hired William Pao as chief development officer, effective from March. He joins from Roche....
...Remember Prince William in his Union Jack-printed style?...
...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....
...Gross, who now just manages the William, Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation, warned my colleague Robin Wigglesworth that investors had been lulled into a “dreamland” by central banks....
...Even Fidelity’s Contrafund — the world’s biggest actively-managed equity fund — has suffered steady outflows in recent years, despite its manager William Danoff beating his benchmark by an average of over...
...William Katz, an analyst with Citi, said he expected Trian’s involvement to spark “a new-found urgency” among senior executives to follow the company’s current plan to trim $100m in costs, announced in March...
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