home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=89TT0419>
- <title>
- Feb. 13, 1989: Business Notes:Corporate Raiders
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Feb. 13, 1989 James Baker:The Velvet Hammer
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 63
- Business Notes
- CORPORATE RAIDERS
- Icahn's $340 Million Payoff
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Corporate raider Carl Icahn, who owns 17.3% of Texaco, has
- tirelessly hectored its top management for 1 1/2 years with
- charges that the giant oil company is poorly run. Icahn has
- repeatedly threatened to stage a hostile takeover, and even
- tried unsuccessfully to replace Texaco's directors in an
- old-fashion proxy fight late last spring. Finally, after 14
- hours of peace talks, Icahn agreed last week to sign a
- standstill agreement that prevents him from buying any more
- stock in the company or trying to wrest control for another
- seven years.
- </p>
- <p> Icahn will extract a rich payoff. Texaco agreed to pay a
- special shareholder dividend of $2 billion, nearly $340 million
- of which will go to the raider. The money will come from the oil
- firm's $7 billion in proceeds from assets it has sold off since
- last June, partly at Icahn's urging.
- </p>
- <p> Now the raider's fattened cash hoard raises the question of
- where he will strike next. Icahn, who took over TWA and became
- its chairman, already owns 11.4% of USX, and has shown interest
- in buying at least some of the assets of Texas Air.
- </p>
-
- </body></article>
- </text>
-
-