So much for the unwavering support of the board of directors and activist William Ackman.
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William Ackman has been the most talked about hedge fund manager in America in 2013.
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Other Burger King investors included financiers Martin Franklin and Nicolas Berggruen and activist investor William Ackman.
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William Ackman charges his investors rich fees for the privilege of parking their money at his Pershing Square Capital Management hedge funds.
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He's hardly alone in seeing unrealized value in CCA. Activist investor William Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management is its largest shareholder with 9.4%.
With the backing of the board of directors and activist investor William Ackman, Johnson was supposed to have three years to execute that turnaround.
Among the biggest losers in the bankruptcy are shareholders, including financiers Bennett LeBow and William Ackman, whose investments in Borders likely will be wiped out.
He is already crushing his biggest nemesis, the billionaire hedge fund manager William Ackman, in their titanic fight over Herbalife, which Ackman has been prominently shorting.
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The three Brazilian musketeers took the hamburger chain private, sold 29% of it to American billionaire hedge fund manager William Ackman, then took it public again last summer.
He will present his best investment idea for this year, as will fellow short-seller James Chanos of Kynikos Associates and activist William Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, among others.
Private equity shop Warburg Pincus and William Ackman of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management have each earned a place among Wall Street's upper reaches by making smart investments.
He called members of the committee of directors making the selections, as well as big investors including William Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management LP, people familiar with the matter said.
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He made news in early 2013 by taking a position in Herbalife, the nutritional supplements seller, shortly after another prominent hedge fund manager, William Ackman, called the company a pyramid scheme.
Activist investor William Ackman made a compelling argument on the morning shows, and CEO Ron Johnson says the new retailer JCP is really just a start-up operating inside the larger J.
"The franchisee has more skin in the game, " says William Ackman, a hedge-fund founder who is soon to be one of Burger King's newest investors through his fund's interest in Justice Holdings Ltd.
Penney filings are internal, since Vornado (Steven Ross) and Pershing Square (William Ackman) bought shares over a year and a half ago in an activist campaign that led to multiple seats on the Board.
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Ultimately one must ask whether Mr. William Ackman is the only member of the Board of Directors, or whether each member of the Board has an individual responsibility to shareholders that they have not exercised.
"I'm not a fan of sticking real-estate companies in a trust so you don't have to pay corporate tax, " said activist hedge fund investor William Ackman of Pershing Square Capital during a recent real-estate conference sponsored by New York University.
William Ackman of Pershing Square, an activist hedge fund, has built up his stake in Fortune Brands, a conglomerate with interests ranging from golf to spirits to home furnishings, and may try to force it to sell some of its parts.
Activist investor William Ackman fired the latest salvo in his bid for a seat on the board of Target Tuesday, pledging to maintain his personal investment in the retail chain for five years if he and his slate of four nominees is elected.
It was a clear shot at Pershing Square Capital, the New York hedge fund run by William Ackman, who released a letter to regulators Wednesday, along with a lode of data, to support his claim the bond insurers are headed for a swift demise.
In other words, Loeb is betting against William Ackman, the hedge fund manager who took to a New York stage in December to announce a massive short bet that he said consisted of 20 million shares against Herbalife, which he called a Pyramid scheme.
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The latest twist in the proposal from Pershing founder William Ackman calls for the formation of a new company--20% of which would be sold off in a public offering--to take control of 1, 000 of those restaurants located in mature markets and sell them to the public.
Ambac shares have lost 90% of their value since January 2007 and William Ackman, a short-seller who runs the hedge fund Pershing Square Capital, has railed against them (to his own benefit), saying the bond insurers could be insolvent by the second quarter because of their exposures to the structured finance market.
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