New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Hedge fund TCI has won two more seats on the board of railroad operator CSX, in what looks to be the finale of a year-long proxy battle.
A U.S. Court of Appeals judge ruled yesterday in New York upheld an earlier ruling that the court did not have the power to stop both TCI and fellow hedge fund investor 3G Capital Partners from voting shares at CSX’s annual meeting. The ruling came despite the fact that the funds had supposedly violated certain disclosure agreements through their accumulation of equity swaps.
The June 25 shareholders meeting in Jacksonville, Florida was anything but decisive, with the head of CSX Michael Ward telling reporters that the vote was too close to call. While CSX did concede two of the seats to 3G Managing Director Alexandre Behing and Gilbert Lamphere, former head of Canadian National Railway Co., the hedge funds claimed that they had in fact won four of the 12 seats.
"It is time for the entire duly elected Board, including Chris Hohn and Tim O’Toole, to get to work and make progress on the shareholder mandate they received in June,” the hedge funds said in a statement after yesterday’s ruling.
The four new board members will be seated when the company’s annual meetings reconvene on September 24th.
Julie Scuderi
Senior Editor for HedgeCo.Net
Email: julie@hedgeco.net
HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on www.hedgeco.net is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for Hedge Funds!
Be sure to check out our sister sites. For more information, visit www.hedgeconetworks.com
