Icahn: Yahoo! board acted 'irrationally'
Posted May 15th 2008 1:00PM by Tech Confidential
Filed under: Deals
Signaling that he wants to invest up to $2.5 billion, activist investor Carl Icahn launched Thursday, May 15, a proxy contest at Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), nominating 10 directors in the hopes of negotiating a successful merger with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT).
In a letter addressed to Yahoo! chairman Roy Bostock, Icahn said: "It is clear to me that the board of directors of Yahoo! has acted irrationally and lost the faith of shareholders and Microsoft."
He called Microsoft's $33-per-share offer price a "superior alternative" to the company's standalone prospects and pointed out that the offer represented a 72% premium to Yahoo!'s closing price of $19.18 ahead of the offer. Microsoft originally put forth a $31 per share offer and, after increasing the bid but being repeatedly rebuffed, withdrew its $47.5 billion bid May 3.
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