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  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    Due Diligence
    Carl Icahn, a Texas lawyer and a bottle of vodka Premium content

    Plus, the complex case awaiting Evergrande’s liquidators and a deal in Japan spooks investors

    The Due Diligence logo
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    Lyft Inc
    Lyft pays $10mn to settle probe into Icahn’s stake sale ahead of IPO

    Securities and Exchange Commission faults ride-hailing app for failing to disclose role of director in deal

    Lyft officials cheer as they as they ring a ceremonial opening bell in Los Angeles in 2019
  • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
    Unhedged podcast20 min listen
    Icahn has problems?

    Carl Icahn is under pressure from short sellers, and his own bets

  • Friday, 4 August, 2023
    Icahn Enterprises LP
    Icahn Enterprises halves dividend after short seller attack

    Move follows short seller Hindenburg Research saying large payouts are unsustainable

    Activist investor Carl Icahn
  • Monday, 10 July, 2023
    Icahn restructures personal loan after short seller attack

    Billionaire investor pledges more collateral in deal with five lenders

    Carl Icahn
  • Sunday, 11 June, 2023
    Illumina Inc
    Francis deSouza resigns as Illumina boss after proxy battle with Carl Icahn

    Chief’s resignation follows chair’s departure from gene sequencing group

    Francis deSouza, CEO of Illumina
  • Friday, 26 May, 2023
    Person in the News
    Carl Icahn, a star corporate raider brought down to earth

    The veteran investor has seen bets against a fast-rising market turn sour

    Illustration of Person in the News Carl Icahn
  • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
    Illumina Inc
    Illumina chair ousted in proxy battle with Carl Icahn

    Vote to remove John Thompson is the culmination of one of the largest shareholder activism campaigns in years

    The Illumina headquarters in San Diego
  • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
    InterviewIllumina Inc
    Illumina can survive loss of chair and CEO, says board director

    Gene sequencing company heads for pivotal vote in battle with activist investor Carl Icahn

    The Illumina offices in San Francisco
  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    Due Diligence
    Icahn regrets losing $9bn on short bets Premium content

    Plus, Credit Suisse bondholders get access to AT1 wipeout decree and Geely boosts stake in Aston Martin

    The Due Diligence logo
  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    Carl Icahn admits mistake with bearish bet that cost $9bn

    ‘If I kept the parameters I always believed in . . .  I would have been fine,’ concedes activist

    Carl Icahn
  • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
    An important update on Icahn’s perpetual dividend . . . 

    Jefferies! Hindenburg! Blitzkrieg! Schadenfreude!

  • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
    Illumina Inc
    Glass Lewis backs Carl Icahn’s push to oust Illumina’s chief and chair

    Proxy adviser says the two executives failed to take responsibility for destructive deal for Grail

    An Illumina office in California
  • Wednesday, 10 May, 2023
    Icahn Enterprises LP
    Icahn’s company hit after it reveals inquiry by US prosecutors

    Shares plummet on news US attorney’s office sought information a day after report from short seller Hindenburg Research

    Carl Icahn
  • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
    Lex
    Icahn/Hindenburg: gadfly gets a taste of his own medicine Premium content

    Activist investor strongly denies Hindenburg allegations but he may have a more immediate problem

    Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn
  • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
    Icahn Enterprises LP
    Icahn group’s shares tumble after attack by short seller Hindenburg

    Legendary activist investor’s vehicle said to be overvalued in critical report

    Carl Icahn
  • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
    FT Alphaville
    Hindenburg attack is uncomfortable reading for Icahn’s most loyal friends

    Oh, the humanity . . . 

  • Tuesday, 4 April, 2023
    Illumina Inc
    Illumina battle with regulators threatens cancer breakthrough, warn Grail alumni

    Founding directors say political wrangling causing delays to potentially life-saving blood test

    A person in a lab coat with the Grail logo conducts research
  • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
    Illumina Inc
    Illumina chief’s pay nearly doubles ahead of clash with Carl Icahn

    Francis deSouza was awarded $26.7mn in total pay last year despite drop in genome sequencer’s market value

    Francis deSouza
  • Friday, 17 March, 2023
    Interview
    Carl Icahn urges Fed to keep fighting inflation ‘disease’

    Comments by activist investor come ahead of US central bank’s rate-setting meeting next week

    Carl Icahn
  • Monday, 13 March, 2023
    Illumina Inc
    Carl Icahn takes aim at genome sequencer Illumina over Grail deal

    Company’s shares jump after activist investor launches proxy battle

    Carl Icahn
  • Monday, 27 February, 2023
    News in-depthOccidental Petroleum Corp
    Oxy and Anadarko: how the ‘dumbest deal in history’ paid off for Hollub

    Feared to be facing bankruptcy three years ago, oil producer Occidental is set to report its biggest-ever earnings

    Vicki Hollub
  • Thursday, 6 October, 2022
    Due Diligence
    How Elon Musk became Wall Street’s juiciest trade Premium content

    Plus, Lars Windhorst walks off the pitch and a glimpse into Wall Street’s lucrative tax side-hustle

    Due Diligence logo
  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    Investor activism
    Carl Icahn loses proxy fight with McDonald’s over pig welfare

    Billionaire activist had sought two board seats at fast-food chain in campaign to end caging of sows

    Carl Icahn arrives at a meeting
  • Monday, 2 May, 2022
    Technology sector
    Further reading

    Fast walking FTW; Carl Icahn; and Elon (again, sigh)

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