{"id":58134,"date":"2017-05-22T08:39:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T12:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=58134"},"modified":"2017-05-22T08:39:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T12:39:28","slug":"shareholders-take-akzo-nobel-to-court-in-effort-to-aid-ppg-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2017\/shareholders-take-akzo-nobel-to-court-in-effort-to-aid-ppg-takeover.html","title":{"rendered":"Shareholders Take Akzo Nobel to Court in Effort to Aid PPG Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Akzo Nobel (AKZO.AS) shareholders angered by the Dutch paint maker&#8217;s rejection of a 26.3 billion euro ($29.5 billion) takeover offer from U.S. rival PPG Industries (PPG.N) on Monday took their fight to an Amsterdam court.<\/p>\n<p>British hedge fund Elliott Advisors, with support from several long-term institutional investors, will try to convince judges at the Amsterdam Enterprise Chamber to order an investigation into possible mismanagement by Akzo&#8217;s board and force an extraordinary meeting of shareholders to vote on dismissing Chairman Antony Burgmans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-akzo-nobel-m-a-ppg-inds-idUSKBN18I003\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Akzo Nobel (AKZO.AS) shareholders angered by the Dutch paint maker&#8217;s rejection of a 26.3 billion euro ($29.5 billion) takeover offer from U.S. rival PPG Industries (PPG.N) on Monday took their fight to an Amsterdam court. British hedge fund Elliott [&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-58134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58134","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=58134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58135,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58134\/revisions\/58135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}