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2. Activists Lay Down Their Arms as Companies Cope With Coronavirus Spread
  
  Explore Stock Market Quotes and News Mar 29 2020 BoardBlogs
  
  Being a shareholder activist investor isn't such a good look right now. Executives are struggling to keep their companies afloat and their workers employed as the coronavirus spreads, and activists' demands in many cases seem less pertinent than they did just a few weeks ago. That's led many of the investors to walk away from campaigns or settle them early...
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3. Occidental Petroleum Reaches Truce With Activist Investor Carl Icahn
  
  Explore wsj.com Mar 25 2020 BoardNews
  
  In bid to turn around, the company is changing its board, cutting salaries and slashing capital budget Occidental Petroleum Corp., the largest oil producer in the giant Permian Basin, has ceded to activist investor Carl Icahns demands and announced deep spending cuts in a bid to survive the steepest crude-price plunge in decades...
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4. Occidental Petroleum Cuts Pay for Staff, Executives
  
  Explore wsj.com Mar 25 2020 BoardNews
  
  Occidental Petroleum Corp. is cutting salaries for its U.S. employees by up to 30% in a bid to slash expenses, according to an internal email reviewed by The Wall Street Journal...
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5. Delaware Court of Chancery Holds that a Stockholder’s Disagreement with a Board’s Business Judgment and Intent to Pursue a Proxy Contest is Not a “Proper Purpose” for a Section 220 Demand
  
  Explore National Law Review Nov 20 2019 BoardNews
  
  In High River Limited Partnership v. Occidental Petroleum Corp., C.A. No. 2019-0403-JRS, 2019 WL 6040285 (Del. Ch. Nov. 14, 2019) (Slights, V.C.), the Delaware Court of Chancery held that a stockholders mere disagreement with a business decision of a board of directors and intent to pursue a bone fide proxy contest is not a proper purpose to support a demand to inspect the corporations books and records ...
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6. Icahn Says Occidental Won’t Hit Target Without ‘Fire Sale’
  
  Explore Bloomberg Nov 13 2019 BoardNews
  
  Activist investor Carl Icahn saidOccidental Petroleum Corp.s new target for assets sales wont be achieved without a fire sale that includes its pipeline system,Western Midstream Partners LP, which was already shopped to potential buyers earlier this year...
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7. Are Activist Investors Sexist?
  
  Explore Stock Market Quotes and News Aug 2 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  Vicki Hollub is an engineer who spent time on three continents working her way up to the top of Occidental Petroleum Corp. She doesn't have much experience at MA, and that has made her an easy target for critics. Her recent bid to deepen the company's bet in the red-hot Permian Basin is bold...
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8. Carl Icahn may be Right about Occidental’s Anadarko Deal, But for a Different Reason
  
  Explore MarketWatch Jul 30 2019 BoardBlogs
  
  ...Activist investor Carl Icahn has complained that Occidental Petroleum Corp.s deal for Anadarko Petroleum Corp. was too rich, pointing at interference from Berkshire Hathaway Inc.s Warren Buffett and a competing...
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9. Icahn Looks to Occidental’s Ex-CEO for Help in Fight With Company
  
  Explore wsj.com Jul 26 2019 BoardNews
  
  Occidental Petroleum Corp. Chief Executive Vicki Hollub is eager to move forward following her $38 billion deal to buy Anadarko Petroleum Corp. But first she has to deal with Carl Icahn, who is trying to bring Ms. Hollubs predecessor back into the boardroom. The activist investor has already pushed for four seats on Occidentals board, arguing that Ms. Hollub ignored investors and made costly rookie mistakes in her bid to ...
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10. Carl Icahn Wins ISS Support for Initial Step to Shake Up Occidental
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance Jul 25 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...(Bloomberg) -- Carl Icahns effort to revamp Occidental Petroleum Corp.s board got a boost from a prominent shareholder advisory firm Thursday. Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. urged the oil explorers inv...
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11. Icahn Is Unlikely to Challenge Occidental-Anadarko Deal
  
  Explore Yahoo! Finance May 9 2019 BoardNews
  
  ...(Bloomberg) -- Activist investor Carl Icahn is unlikely to mount a challenge to Occidental Petroleum Corp.s $38 billion plan to acquire Anadarko Petroleum Corp., according to people familiar with the matter... ...
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12. Corporate Boards Are Looking for CEOs Who Aren’t Old White Men
  
  Explore Bloomberg Apr 18 2018 BoardBlogs
  
  For most of the past decade, Cheryl Miller has spent her days trying to put more cars on Americas roadsfirst as the treasurer and now as the chief financial officer of AutoNation Inc. , the largest auto retailer in the U.S. And for the past year shes been working on behalf of another of the countrys biggest companies, Tyson Foods Inc. , as one of the newest members of its board ...
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