New York (HedgeCo.Net) - Board members of General Motors met this past weekend to go over a proposal that will be presented to Congress today in hopes of securing up to $12 billion in emergency funding.  The money is part of a larger, $25 billion bailout plan that GM, Ford and Chrysler have been seeking.  […]

eBrandz - In a move expected to fuel speculation over Yahoo Inc.’s search for a new chief executive — Corporate raider and billionaire investor Carl Icahn augmented his stake in Yahoo, has bought up close to 7 million additional shares of the Internet Company over three days this week, paying around $67 million, according to […]

Reuters - Citigroup Inc lost more than one-quarter of its market value on growing worries over whether it has enough capital to withstand billions of dollars of potential losses and despite new support from its largest individual investor.
The second-largest U.S. bank by assets is looking at options now, including a sale of parts of the […]

CNNMoney.com - New York hedge fund Elliott Associates LP lowered its offer price Tuesday for Epicor Software Corp., saying in a letter it was "extremely disappointed" Epicor’s board had recommended shareholders reject a takeover.
Elliott, a large shareholder in the Irvine, Calif., software company, told Epicor’s board that it will now offer $7.50 per share, which […]

CNNMoney.com - A shareholder has sued CSX Corp. (CSX) and two hedge funds over sales of CSX shares before the funds publicly disclosed plans to shake up the railroad operator’s board in a proxy fight earlier this year.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Tuesday, is seeking recovery of so-called […]

Reuters - Endologix Inc said it received an unsolicited takeover bid from hedge fund Elliott Associates LP for $2.25 a share, 18 percent higher than the stock’s Wednesday closing price.
The company, which develops and manufactures minimally invasive treatments for vascular diseases, said it will review the unsolicited proposal and make a determination and respond […]

Reuters - Hedge Fund Elliott Associates LP on Wednesday took its $529 million cash offer for Epicor Software Corp directly to shareholders, two days after it was snubbed by the business software maker’s board.
Elliott said it, through a unit, is offering $9.50 per share through the tender offer, about 40 percent premium to the stock’s […]

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) - Hedge fund manager Rosseau Asset Management Ltd. and certain related parties have  filed a dissident’s proxy circular (the "Dissident’s Circular") to Noront Resources Ltd., in which the hedge fund group controls over approximately 9.2% of common shares.
Rosseau asks Noront’s shareholders to vote against the re-election of the Company’s current Board […]

Florida Times Union - CSX Corp.’s proxy fight with two hedge funds apparently ended Monday, after an appellate court turned down CSX’s attempt to block some of the funds’ votes for the company’s board of directors.
CSX, which had already seated two representatives of The Children’s Investment Fund Management LLP and 3G Capital Partners Ltd. on […]

Wall Street Journal - Hedge fund Elliott Associates LP made public a letter to Republic Services Inc. in which it said the company’s board wasn’t doing its duty by fully considering the raised $6.73 billion takeover bid from Waste Management Inc.
The fund, which said it is a "meaningful" shareholder in the company, asserted the Waste […]

Chicago Tribune - The leader of an activist hedge fund with a significant stake in Sara Lee Corp. has been added to the foodmaker’s board of directors.
Downers Grove-based Sara Lee said Thursday that it is expanding its 10-member board by one, naming Jeffrey Ubben, founder and chief executive of ValueAct Capital, to the new spot. […]

New York (HedgeCo.Net) - Harbinger Capital Partners is no stranger to aggressively seeking strategic changes within companies in which they invest. This month, it’s Harbinger vs. Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. The mining company is urging shareholders to reject a bid by the activist hedge fund that would give them veto power over one of Cleveland-Cliffs […]