Maybe not: A fresh proxy battle has broken out with money manager Relational Investors.
To illustrate the point, Ackman highlighted his recent successful proxy battle at Canadian Pacific Railway.
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Mr. Burkle has since launched a proxy battle aimed at winning three board seats.
The main issue in this proxy battle is which team is best suited to manage the process of selling the company.
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The stock is up more than 33% year-to-date as the broader market rallied and the proxy battle drew in buyers anticipating change.
The UUP's Basil McCrea said this was a proxy battle and the issue was that "we have not dealt with the past".
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Critics of his extravagance tried to oust him from the board but he survived a proxy battle by a slender 50.7% margin.
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"Microsoft is willing and ready to launch a proxy battle, " Hilal said.
Earlier this year the struggling newspaper publisher fought a proxy battle from a hedge fund pushing for big changes at the company.
Clearbridge Advisors, a Legg Mason fund with a 12% stake, was Icahn's ally in the unsuccessful Biogen fight as well as a proxy battle at Motorola last year.
Then in early 2005, one of BioMarin's largest shareholders, health care-focused money management fund OrbiMed Advisors, launched a proxy battle in which it requested three new board members.
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Only one company in his industry had a CEO being savaged by Carl Icahn in a proxy battle, while its top-selling drugs were facing competition and safety controversies.
The focus of the proxy battle and the source of Birmingham's financial woe is the division that makes high-grade bar steel for critical applications like seatbelt bolts and motor shafts.
Of course, Samsung has indeed said it intends to appeal (and an internal memo reported by CNET corroborates this), so it would seem that the proxy battle against Android is far from over, and the drone of legalese is sure to continue.
Clearbridge Advisors, a Legg Mason (nyse: LM - news - people ) fund with a 12% stake, was Icahn's ally in the unsuccessful Biogen fight as well as a proxy battle at Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) last year.
It is not clear when the Conservatives will elect replacements and even less clear who we will get...but it may be that partisans on either side of the argument may try for a seat on the committee - and given the Boris v Dave overtones, it could even become a proxy leadership battle.
Once the school-board battle had become a proxy for city-government power games, the opportunists jumped in.
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