He invests so astutely that he takes control of a company and makes a fortune.
Perelman is no stranger to the Delaware courts his earlier takeover of Revlon in the 1980s prompted one of the most famous business-law rulings ever, governing the duty of managers and directors to obtain the highest price possible when they sell control of a company.
"They want access to capital, and limited liability, but they want the control of a private company, " says Nell Minow, editor of the Corporate Library, a shareholder advocate.
For legal control of a Japanese company, an acquirer generally needs to have at least a 34% stake (note that when Renault took over Nissan, it had a 37% stake, and when DaimlerChrysler got Mitsubishi Motors, it had 34%).
But Charles River is more the story of a man than of a mouse--a classic tale of a frustrated entrepreneur who wrests control of a family-founded company back from a giant corporation and remakes it in his own image.
As if destroying the financial lives of his investors was not enough, as part of the W Financial scheme Abdulwahab took control of a Texas power company that, at its demise, forced thousands of residential customers to scrambe for alternate electricity suppliers.
Then it all went horribly wrong, the BBC closed the station and John spent six months working in the control room of a security company in Birmingham.
Last year, for example, a Czech company lost control of a privatised Slovak chemicals plant it had bought in 1994, when shares were stolen from the securities registry and resold to Slovak investors.
Instead, his coalition government submitted a bill to parliament that promised to increase the control of Italy's media held by his company, Mediaset, a level of control that was already excessive by most countries' standards, especially once it was combined with the influence over state television channels that he can enjoy as prime minister.
Lazaridis' press demeanor of late does not project an image of a company fully in control of its vision -- something Don explored earlier.
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But now we are seeing a downside of one company having control over a particularly lucrative drug.
He is suing Lutz, accusing his former partner of orchestrating a plan to wrest control of the company away from him--with help from General Motors and others.
He is suing Lutz, accusing his former partner of orchestrating a plan to wrest control of the company away from him--with help from General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people ) and others.
But he went further, forcing Maria Elena off the board and giving control of the company to a group of executives while he ran for president of Ecuador in 1998.
Copps has been joined by a flurry of lobbying efforts and publicized concerns by consumer groups, policy makers and rivals who fear the tie-up puts too much control into the hands of a company that will own and distribute content.
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Yesterday, Pfizer and Schering-Plough both released earnings that exceeded the expectations of Wall Street analysts, but company control of costs had a great deal to do with these companies' strong performance.
To eliminate any conflicts of interests, Ellison's shares have been placed in a "lockbox" or voting trust, that will eliminate Ellison's voting control over company matters "other than a change of control transaction, dissolution, sale of substantially all of the Company's assets or liquidation" as long as Ellison remains an officer or director of Oracle, according to regulatory filings.
To eliminate any conflicts of interests, Ellison's shares have been placed in a "lockbox" or voting trust, that will eliminate Ellison's voting control over company matters "other than a change of control transaction, dissolution, sale of substantially all of the Company's assets or liquidation" as long as Ellison remains an officer or director of Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ), according to regulatory filings.
Most close observers of Coke think that effective control of the company is now in the hands of a triumvirate: the former Coca-Cola president Keough and the board members Buffett and Allen.
If you have a company-sponsored retirement plan, the company has a large degree of control over your retirement planning.
Those restrictions would require consumers to be notified by mail about a possible exposure of their data any time their information left a company or agency's control, not just when there would be a "reasonable risk of harm, " as most states' breach disclosure laws are worded.
Establishing a wholly-owned company in China where a company has complete control of the decision-making process and does not have to deal with a Chinese partner can be very tempting.
Heselden had taken control of the Segway company in early 2010, adding a dose of irony to the tragic death.
In good hands they imbue business operations with a sense of control and transparency, shedding light on weakness like a company-wide MRI.
With 68% voting control of Hollinger International through a Canadian shell company he also controls, Hollinger Inc.
Much earlier, Zaffaroni was part of a team of scientists who helped launch the birth control company Syntex.
Transatlantic shareholders will control a larger portion of the combined company, to be called TransAllied Group Holdings, and 6 of the eleven board seats.
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The fact that he had an eating disorder (what do you take for that? cake? pies and chips?) he could not control suddenly should become the problem of a company that has its own vision of its brand, has no one to report to but its shareholders, and generally does not need his business.
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The Glazers will continue to control the company through a class of supervoting stock.
The Glazers will continue to control the company through a class of supervoting stock, meaning that new shareholders will have little say on the team's future.
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