{"id":67618,"date":"2019-01-21T00:07:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T05:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=67618"},"modified":"2019-01-23T00:13:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T05:13:20","slug":"mgm-hands-board-seat-to-activist-hedge-fund-corvexs-meister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2019\/mgm-hands-board-seat-to-activist-hedge-fund-corvexs-meister.html","title":{"rendered":"MGM Hands Board Seat to Activist Hedge Fund Corvex&#8217;s Meister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) MGM Resorts International has struck a deal with hedge fund Corvex Management\u2019s founder, Keith Meister, to give him a board seat, one week after a rival activist investor was seen building a position in the casino operator. Corvex owns roughly 3 percent of MGM\u2019s stock. Meister will join the board on Friday, expanding its size by one to 13 members, MGM said in a statement released late on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/mgm-resorts-intl-corvex\/mgm-hands-board-seat-to-activist-hedge-fund-corvexs-meister-idINKCN1PC08I\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) MGM Resorts International has struck a deal with hedge fund Corvex Management\u2019s founder, Keith Meister, to give him a board seat, one week after a rival activist investor was seen building a position in the casino operator. Corvex owns [&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-67618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67618","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=67618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67619,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67618\/revisions\/67619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}