{"id":89032,"date":"2024-08-14T00:14:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T04:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=89032"},"modified":"2024-08-13T23:30:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T03:30:17","slug":"elliott-readies-southwest-proxy-fight-will-nominate-10-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2024\/elliott-readies-southwest-proxy-fight-will-nominate-10-directors.html","title":{"rendered":"Elliott readies Southwest proxy fight, will nominate 10 directors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Elliott Management will launch a proxy fight at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/LUV\/\">Southwest Airlines<\/a>, and intends to nominate as many as 10 directors to the company\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/07\/08\/southwest-adds-former-us-airways-ceo-to-board-amid-activist-fight.html\">15-person board<\/a>, the activist said Tuesday evening, a long-expected move following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/07\/08\/southwest-airlines-activist-elliott-threatens-proxy-fight-for-new-leadership.html\">weeks of back and forth<\/a>\u00a0between the airline and the investor. Elliott plans to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/strongersouthwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Elliott-Management-Announces-Director-Candidates-for-the-Board-of-Southwest-Airlines_08132024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">call a special meeting<\/a>, rather than waiting for the company\u2019s annual shareholder meeting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/08\/13\/elliott-southwest-proxy-fight.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Elliott Management will launch a proxy fight at\u00a0Southwest Airlines, and intends to nominate as many as 10 directors to the company\u2019s\u00a015-person board, the activist said Tuesday evening, a long-expected move following\u00a0weeks of back and forth\u00a0between the airline and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89032","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=89032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89033,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89032\/revisions\/89033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}