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Icahn on settling Pennzoil-Texaco with Jamail
This blog is mostly about business and law, so Carl Icahn's activities have been a frequent topic. Likewise, this blog also centers on Houston, where the Pennzoil v. Texaco case from the mid-1980's is a part of the city's storied...
More on business golf therapy
James Cayne's golf therapy prompted this interesting article over at The Economist on the deeply engrained nature of business golf: The central role played by golf in business life is under-reported—except maybe in Japan—perhaps because journalists can’t afford the green...
Icahn on management theory and private equity
The adventures of Carl Icahn are a common topic on this blog, so the following Icahn observations from a WSJ-sponsored conference caught my eye: At The Wall Street Journal’s Deals & Deal Makers Conference, Icahn summed up his approach to...
Anadarko's interesting investor
Well, well, well. Look who has bought a big stake in The Woodlands-based Anadarko Petroleum Corporation: Icahn Management LP, one of investor Carl Icahn's investment vehicles, has purchased about 3.1 million shares in Anadarko Petroleum Corp., according to a Reuters...
Smartest Guys in the Courtroom?
Peter Elkind of The Smartest Guys in the Room fame has now turned his sights toward class-action plaintiff's law firm, Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman (prior posts here). In this lengthy article (hat tip to Peter Lattman) entitled The law...
The SEC protects Carl Icahn, too
It's a pretty sure sign that securities regulators do not have enough to do when they are busy trying to protect the likes of Carl Icahn. As noted in this earlier post, Icahn was outmaneuvered in late 2004 by New...
Icahn bears down on Time-Warner
Carl Icahn has provided this blog with some interesting fodder for posts over the past couple of years, and it looks as if the hedge fund investor is primed to do it again with his announcement yesterday that he intends...
The Day of the Hedgies
After last week's entertaining analyst conference call for Blockbuster, Inc., you have probably heard by now that Carl Icahn won shareholder approval this week for planting himself and two friendly directors on the Blockbuster board. Mr. Icahn's moves prompted an...
"Now be nice, Carl"
Yesterday's conference call for Blockbuster, Inc.'s CEO John Antioco to discuss the company's quarterly earnings turned out not to be the routine chat that usually occurs in such calls. Blockbuster investor Carl Icahn made sure of that. Mr. Icahn and...
Look who's interested in Temple-Inland
Austin-based Temple-Inland Inc. -- the big lumber and financial services company -- announced yesterday that one of Carl Icahn's investor vehicles -- Icahn Partners Masters Fund LP -- had requested government approval to buy as much as $1 billion of...
Icahn tees off on hedge fund
Following on this earlier post about a hedge fund beating Carl Icahn at his own game, this NY Times article reports that Mr. Icahn is now doing what any red-blooded American businessman would do when he ends up on the...
Icahn profits on Martha's travails
In a world where reality is often more intriguing than fiction, this Wall Street Journal ($) article reports that Carl Icahn needs no stinkin' stock tips: By now, everyone knows how Martha Stewart was alerted by a Merrill Lynch &...
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