{"id":20466,"date":"2011-02-08T07:04:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T11:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20466"},"modified":"2011-02-08T07:04:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T11:04:23","slug":"activist-fund-threatens-proxy-fight-at-mentor-graphics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2011\/activist-fund-threatens-proxy-fight-at-mentor-graphics.html","title":{"rendered":"Activist Fund Threatens Proxy Fight at Mentor Graphics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DealBook &#8211; An activist hedge fund on Monday threatened to mount a proxy fight at\u00a0Mentor Graphics to protest what the firm said were moves meant to forestall talks with unhappy shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>Casablanca Capital, a hedge fund founded by former Lazard banker Donald G. Drapkin, wrote in a letter to Mentor\u2019s board that it intends to run an alternate slate of directors after the company pushed up its shareholder meeting date for this year. Casablanca owns a roughly 5.5 percent stake in the company.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/07\/activist-fund-threatens-proxy-fight-at-mentor-graphics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DealBook &#8211; An activist hedge fund on Monday threatened to mount a proxy fight at\u00a0Mentor Graphics to protest what the firm said were moves meant to forestall talks with unhappy shareholders. Casablanca Capital, a hedge fund founded by former Lazard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20467,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20466\/revisions\/20467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}