“It looks like billionaire hedge-fund manager David Einhorn won half his battle with Apple (AAPL) in a New York federal court Tuesday,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“Lawyers for Greenlight Capital, Einhorn’s firm, had argued that putting into one proposition three separate items — two of which Einhorn supported and one (which barred Apple’s board from issuing preferred shares without a shareholder vote) he vehemently opposed — was a clear violation of SEC regulations against such ‘bundling,'” P.E.D. reports. “At the end of the 90-minute hearing — expedited because Apple’s shareholders meeting is scheduled for Feb. 27 — U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan said he was inclined to agree. ‘Candidly I do think the likelihood of success is in favor for Greenlight on the merits,’ he said.”
P.E.D. reports, “What was less clear was whether Greenlight had proved that it would suffer the ‘irreparable harm’ required for the judge to issue a preliminary injunction blocking the vote.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Just goes to show that the judge is a complete idiot.
There is absolutely no irreparable harm. The stockholders can *always* vote at some time in the future to issue preferred stock if they so choose.
The only thing the motion does that Einhorn does not like is remove the ability of the board to issue preferred stock without a stockholder’s vote. What this does is make it so that Einhorn has to get many, many, many people to agree with his preferential type of preferred stock being issued rather than him (and a few other hedge fund managers) just bludgeoning enough board members into agreeing to issue that kind of stock.
Einhorn, wast that one vote rating my post as low as possible you?
There is never anything wrong with a vote by the people. Never.
How much experience do you have about that statement?
Einhorn, you suck!