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 its board, said Monday it will now add two additional TCI and 3G nominees.
All four TCI-3G nominees won election to CSX’s 12-member board of directors at the company’s shareholders meeting in June. But after the votes were counted, CSX said it would only seat two of them until its court case was resolved.
On Monday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled against CSX, upholding a June decision by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan. CSX had filed a lawsuit saying that TCI and 3G violated federal disclosure laws about their stock ownership in CSX. Kaplan agreed that the funds violated those laws, but said that did not give him the authority to block their proxy votes.
