{"id":54574,"date":"2016-09-28T10:16:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T14:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=54574"},"modified":"2016-09-28T10:16:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T14:16:20","slug":"corvex-drops-williams-proxy-fight-after-more-directors-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2016\/corvex-drops-williams-proxy-fight-after-more-directors-named.html","title":{"rendered":"Corvex Drops Williams Proxy Fight After More Directors Named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Pipeline operator Williams Cos Inc said on Monday it added two new directors, prompting activist investor Corvex Management LP to withdraw plans to replace the company&#8217;s entire board.The company named Stephen Chazen, former chief executive of Occidental Petroleum Corp, and Peter Ragauss, former chief financial officer of Baker Hughes Inc, to its board.<\/p>\n<p>Williams said it expects to name two new independent directors by the annual shareholders&#8217; meeting and that three directors, who served prior to 2016, will not stand for re-election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-williams-board-idUSKCN11W1F2\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Pipeline operator Williams Cos Inc said on Monday it added two new directors, prompting activist investor Corvex Management LP to withdraw plans to replace the company&#8217;s entire board.The company named Stephen Chazen, former chief executive of Occidental Petroleum Corp, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54574","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54575,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54574\/revisions\/54575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}