Life plays funny tricks: Icahn, the well-known corporate raider, is now in the medicine business.
Mr Green's reputation as a corporate raider was sealed when he bid for retail group Sears.
Simmons used to be a corporate raider who once unsuccessfully tried to take over Lockheed Corp.
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Parsons blandly adopted a few of Icahn's proposals, and the corporate raider eventually went away.
Corporate raider Carl Icahn also stepped in to try to get the deal done but to no avail.
Even CarlIcahnCarl Icahn, the corporate raider who now calls himself an "activist investor, " jumps on every potential business deal.
"Being a corporate raider is not appropriate for a stock exchange, " he says.
In October 2012, Michael Pickens, son of famed corporate raider and oilman T.
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The corporate raider said Tuesday that he wants to boot out the Yahoo!
It seems like corporate raider Carl Icahn never cared about being loved.
Earlier this month, I wrote about the vicious court battle taking place in Dallas between billionaire corporate raider T.
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Today it's hard to believe that Hurwitz once inspired fear as a corporate raider who survived multiple dustups with regulators.
Even Carl Icahn , the corporate raider who now calls himself an "activist investor, " jumps on every potential business deal.
Even some Republicans are painting him as a heartless corporate raider who has torn apart firms and families to make money for shareholders.
The larger-than-life character is a walking, talking embodiment of 1980s avarice and corporate malfeasance, a surrogate for real-life villains like corporate raider Ivan Boesky.
The struggling Web portal needs to post strong results to use as leverage in its continuing deal talks with Microsoft and corporate raider Carl Icahn.
The corporate raider has had his share of success and failure.
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These days Glass runs the eponymous RDG Capital LLC, where he's using the tactics of a corporate raider to find promising investments in publicly traded companies.
By the mid-1990s Chrysler had survived near bankruptcy and a failed hostile buy-out launched by Kirk Kerkorian, a corporate raider who was its biggest single shareholder.
After settling with corporate raider Carl Icahn last week, Yahoo!'
The campaign is underpinned by a 27-minute film, When Mitt Romney Came to Town, that portrays Mr Romney as a greedy corporate raider whose hyper-capitalist business practices ruined American lives.
Saul Steinberg was a pioneering corporate raider who helped originate the practice of greenmail, in which a company he targeted for a takeover paid him immense sums to go away.
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Corporate raider and shareholder activist Carl Icahn thinks Yahoo!
That sort of thing used to be celebrated in America maybe too much so, but sometimes I wonder if Japan could have used a corporate raider or two somewhere along the line.
Despite announcing it was looking to spin off or sell its handset division, corporate raider Carl Icahn told the company he was still planning to run a slate of directors for the upcoming annual meeting.
The latest episode in this unfolding story came just before the July 4th weekend, when longtime corporate raider Carl Icahn disclosed that he had amassed a 9.5 percent stake in Oshkosh Corporation, the big military truck maker.
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The only problem with this reasoning is that right now corporate raider Carl Icahn is exerting pressure on both Navistar and Oshkosh, having bought large blocks of their stock in order to agitate for better shareholder returns.
The main evidence of Mr Obama's proletarian sympathies is a couple of advertisements recently released by his campaign depicting Bain Capital, the private-equity firm Mr Romney founded and ran for 15 years, as a rapacious corporate raider.
On Wednesday afternoon, legendary corporate raider Carl Icahn joined the chorus, revealing a 9.9 percent stake in the company The stock jumped close to 20 percent after the news, gaining close to 35 percent over the last five trading days.
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