abstract:Dan Ackman is an American journalist and civil rights lawyer, who graduated from Wesleyan University and Columbia Law School. He has written on law, policy, business, and sports for such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, New York Daily News, Newsday, New York Post, The American Lawyer, The New York Observer, Slate, Inc.
But before Dan Loeb and Carl Icahn had taken a long position on the other side of the trade from Bill Ackman, there was Robert Chapman of Chapman Capital LLC.