Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 11, 2018

I spent almost 30 years as a lawyer in private practice, advising business leaders on Delaware corporate law issues – addressing matters like preferred stock financings, IPOs, mergers, hostile takeovers, proxy contests, corporate governance and fiduciary issues. How could we expect that to turn out well?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

The form of capitalism that has emerged in Britain is the textbook description of how to organize capital markets and corporate sectors. What exactly is wrong with the progressively greater control that banks, private equity investors, stock markets, and takeovers have exerted over the British corporate sector? Even in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

More than 200 activist-investor initiatives hit companies in 2013, a seven-fold increase over a decade earlier. Founder and primary owner of Icahn Enterprises, Icahn had been tagged a corporate raider for his hostile takeover of TWA in 1985. But in recent times a better sobriquet has been that of activist investor.

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