WSJ – Keith Meister takes things personally. The burly and at times combustible hedge-fund manager, tipped off that his expensive coup d’état of the board of corporate landlord CommonWealth REIT could be imperiled by a proposed last-minute tweak to Maryland state law, didn’t just send one of his 24 employees: He flew down to Annapolis himself last April to lobby against it.
Months later, mired in related shareholder lawsuits there and in Delaware, Mr. Meister appeared in court himself for nearly every hearing.
