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Michelle Icahn is daughter of Gail and Carl.
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Carl Icahn renewed the Lionsgate collision
U.S. billionaire Carl Icahn continues his attempts to buy the film studio Lionsgate to launch Monday in a website and a letter to shareholders tempestuous.
On the website, entitled "www.savelionsgate.com," the investor said that the board had "approved a scheme to issue millions of dollars of shares sold off to benefit a fund controlled by Mark Rachesky, a director of the studio. "
"I have for years attended many transgressions in corporate governance, but they can not hold a candle to what happened to Lionsgate in mid-July," says Icahn.
In mid-July, Lionsgate announced an agreement to exchange debt cons actions that had passed from Mr. Rachevsky Lionsgate reduced to 29% and that of Mr. Icahn from 38% to 33%.
Mr. Rachesky is a former adviser to Carl Icahn in which it is scrambled.
The investor said on Monday it had launched a tender offer for all shares of Lionsgate, which runs until 10 December to $ 7.50 per share.
It is however conditional on the cancellation of the share issue orchestrated by Lionsgate for Mr Rachevsky.
The US-Canadian studio Lionsgate, financial difficulties, produced successful television series Mad Men, Nurse Jackie and Weeds, as well as action movies like Expendables special unit.
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Carl Icahn wants to prevent the merger MGM-Spyglass Entertainment
The billionaire Carl Icahn offers to buy back some of the debts of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), provided that the merger of Hollywood studio with Spyglass Entertainment fails.
The U.S. investor is opposed to this transaction. Instead, he favors an alliance of Hollywood studios struggling with Lions Gate Company, headquartered in Vancouver.
Mr. Icahn, who owns shares in MGM and Lions Gate, said Thursday he was ready to pay 45 cents for every dollar of debt the U.S. company that collapses under a burden of U.S. $ 4 billion.
The transaction would take place only if the securities worth at least $ 963 million to be submitted. If this threshold is reached, the billionaire will buy the tickets on a first come, first served.
Carl Icahn might decide to buy more securities, but will not have the obligation. Its offer expires Oct. 29.
Affected creditors will vote against the merger with Spyglass and sign a proxy to Carl Icahn for the rest of things.
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Michelle Icahn
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The investor Carl Icahn is interested in Lawson Software
After the offers recently made by SAP and Sybase to Sterling Commerce by IBM, other major acquisitions are preparing certainly in the world of enterprise software.
The publisher ERP Lawson Software is there a potential target for a future purchase? That is the question that can arise when reading a document recently issued by one of the investment funds controlled by American Carl Icahn (pictured). We learn that he would meet with leaders of the company based in St. Paul (Minnesota) to improve shareholder value.
Involved in several investment funds, the man is known to give voice and raise the stakes in negotiations to buy strategic. We remember his interventions during the discussions between Yahoo and Microsoft, or as a result of the offer made by Oracle to BEA. Carl Icahn is generally a critical look at the managerial decisions of companies in which it holds interests. Now it has become a shareholder of Lawson Software, up to 8.5% (13.8 million shares). In late 2009, investors appeared in 22nd place of the largest fortunes in the United States.
28% on sales of licenses between December and February
On its third fiscal quarter ended in late February 2010, the publisher of ERP recorded a 28% increase on sales of licenses, to $ 31.87 million on total revenues of $ 186.2 million, up 7%. With maintenance, software revenues totaled $ 121 million (+9%). In contrast, the group's operating margin not exceeding 6.6% of turnover. Net income amounted to $ 1.8 million in the quarter (+71%).
Last January, Lawson Software has acquired Healthvision Software, a leading specialist in applications and services for the hospital sector. The integration of the company was successful. The group from St. Paul has also recently announced an offer to deploy management solutions in the cloud Amazon's EC2.
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