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...such a battle, the raider, instead of trying to buy up a majority of the company's stock, holds a smaller stake and seeks to engineer a coup by enlisting the support of other stockholders. Unlike more routine shareholder proposals, which try to persuade management to change its stance on, say, investment in South Africa, the goal of a proxy fight is to urge stock owners to throw management out altogether. They may do so by casting their votes, in the form of variously hued proxy cards, for the dissident raider and his own roster of director nominees, who promise...
...waste dumper falls for a terrorist hijacker. (They meet cute in an airport check-in line, and she's got a bomb in her luggage.) But Pretty Woman comes close to finding the least admirable characters to build a feel-good movie around. Richard Gere is Edward, a corporate raider who gobbles up companies and spits them out in divestible chunks. Julia Roberts is Vivian, a Los Angeles hooker whom Edward hires as his some-sex, no-love escort for the week...
Last week the corporate gadfly claimed a victory against the world's largest corporation. General Motors' board of directors agreed to Davis' demand for a policy that would ban payment of above-market prices for stock held by a potential corporate raider. Davis first made her anti-greenmail proposal three years ago, after GM paid H. Ross Perot $743 million dollars for his stock -- almost twice its trading value. Davis, who also publishes Highlights and Lowlights, a newsletter about corporate policies, believes that GM had no choice but to accept her proposal, which had substantial support among stockholders. Says...
...Cohen, who moved from "Page Six" at the Post to the I, Claudia column at the Daily News to her current bully pulpit, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee on ABC-TV. Along the way she vaulted into the ranks of privilege by marrying an A-list name, corporate raider Ron Perelman...
...pitfalls of overreaching were on full view last month when the U.S. retailing empire that Toronto developer Robert Campeau assembled in the '80s was placed under the protection of federal bankruptcy court. A hard-driving raider, Campeau had used junk bonds to help finance the $10.2 billion he paid for Allied Stores and Federated Department Stores, whose ten chains include Bloomingdale's, Stern's and Jordan Marsh...