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• Relational sells part of stake in Sovereign

  - 2007-06-25

  Relational Sells Part Of Stake In Sovereign: Relational Investors LLC, a San Diego-based private investment firm that got into a well-publicized fight with one of its investment targets, Sovereign Bancorp, a few years ago, recently sold 1.23 million shares of stock, generating profit of $30 million, according to securities filings....

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• Whitworth: The Alchemist In the Boardroom

  - 2007-06-01

  The activist shareholder effects boardroom change to increase value-what's so wrong about that? Board members could be forgiven if they reach for the aspirin when they hear that Ralph Whitworth is calling. After all, the co-founder of Relational Investors has played a highly public role in the ouster...

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• Proxy season battles pre-empted by peace; Shareholders, companies resolve disputes before going to vote at annual meetings.(The Home Depot Inc.)(Relational Investors L.L.C.)(Brink's Co.)

  - 2007-05-14

  Byline: Barry B. Burr The theme for this proxy season could be "the year of settlements.'' Patrick McGurn, executive vice president and special counsel at Institutional Shareholder Services Inc., Rockville, Md., uses the phrase to describe Byline: Barry B. Burr...

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• Investor activist relational wages proxy war with Home Depot

  - 2007-02-12

  Relational Investors, the local asset management firm that has a track record of investor activism, won another big proxy battle last week, this time with Home Depot Inc. It even got a seat on the company's board. San Diego-based Relational, led by principals Ralph Whitworth and David Batchelder, is...

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• Home Depot Analysis

  - 2007-01-03

  MARK HAINES, CNBC ANCHOR: But the big news of the morning, the headline crossing a short time ago, Home Depot HD CEO Bob Nardelli gone. Let`s get right over to "The Brain," David Faber, who has been working the phones on this developing story. ...

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• Money management firms: ranked by total assets managed companywide for fiscal 2005

  - 2006-12-25

  MONEY MANAGEMENT FIRMS Ranked by total assets managed companywide for fiscal 2005 Rank Company Telephone ...

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• Money management firms: ranked by total assets managed companywide for fiscal 2005

  - 2006-07-31

  MONEY MANAGEMENT FIRMS Ranked by total assets managed companywide for fiscal 2005 Rank Company ...

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• Firms drop lawsuits, resolve proxy fight

  - 2006-04-03

  Relational, Sovereign Bury Hatchet: One of the nastiest and probably one of the more expensive proxy fights ended last month when Relational Investors, a San Diego-based money management fund, and Sovereign Bancorp, one of its investments, agreed to drop lawsuits against each other. The feud that had been festering...

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• For Sovereign chief, a hollow victory?

  - 2006-03-24

  Management of Sovereign Bancorp Inc. may have won a battle but lost the war for long-term control of the Wyomissing, Pa.-based bank. After months of filing expensive legal actions, pressuring the Pennsylvania General Assembly and Gov. Rendell to change or not change the state's merger laws, and questioning each...

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• Sovereign loses a round in court

  - 2006-03-03

  Shareholders in Sovereign Bancorp Inc. can vote to remove directors without cause, a judge in New York ruled yesterday in a lawsuit brought against the bank by its largest investor, Relational Investors L.L.C., of San Diego. U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein said that Pennsylvania law in effect in...

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