{"id":645578,"date":"2013-03-06T21:35:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T02:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=361925"},"modified":"2013-03-06T21:35:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T02:35:48","slug":"dell-scrambles-to-push-buyout-plan-as-investors-revolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645578","title":{"rendered":"Dell scrambles to push buyout plan as investors revolt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/06\/dell-shareholder-revolt-361925\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"700\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/michael-dell_pic.jpg?w=650&amp;h=700&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Dell Shareholder Revolt\" title=\"Michael Dell\" \/><\/a><\/center>If Michael Dell <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/07\/michael-dell-buyout-details-321409\/\">really thinks he can save his company by taking it private<\/a>, it looks like he&#8217;ll have to go through one of the world&#8217;s most famous activist shareholders first.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/100519427\"><em>CNBC&#8217;s<\/em> David Faber reports<\/a> that investor Carl Icahn has bought up a 6% stake in <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/dell\">Dell<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=dell\">DELL<\/a>) and who may block the company&#8217;s proposed leveraged buyout plan. Faber says that Icahn likely &#8220;is going to come out against the deal and urge the board to lever up to provide a special one-time dividend&#8221; to compensate shareholders. Icahn&#8217;s actions come after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-03-06\/dell-s-board-actively-soliciting-alternate-buyout-offers.html\"><em>Bloomberg<\/em> reported earlier on Wednesday<\/a> that Dell had started an aggressive campaign to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/08\/michael-dell-open-letter-322395\/\">justify the terms of the LBO<\/a> to its shareholders and explained that it had &#8220;considered options including a leveraged recapitalization, changing the dividend policy and shedding some business units&#8221; as alternatives.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/9QsZh_NXmyk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Michael Dell really thinks he can save his company by taking it private, it looks like he&#8217;ll have to go through one of the world&#8217;s most famous activist shareholders first.\u00a0CNBC&#8217;s David Faber reports that investor Carl Icahn has bought up a 6% stake in Dell (DELL) and who may block the company&#8217;s proposed leveraged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}