Mr. Heyman, who already controls four dissident seats on the Hercules board that he won in 2001 after a drawn-out proxy fight, has started another proxy contest for four more seats to put him in charge of the 13-member board.
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On Monday, Mason started a proxy fight to oppose the share-class change.
SunTrust said it started mailing proxy statements to about 120,000 Wachovia shareholders, urging them to vote against the First Union deal.
Ms. Fiorina acquired Compaq in 2002, a controversial step that enlarged the PC business but started a proxy fight.
Two hedge funds — Crescendo Partners and Myca Partners Inc. — challenged the company's performance as well as executive compensation when they started the proxy contest earlier this year.
Avigen, based in Alameda, Calif., had been resisting the efforts of the Biotechnology Value Fund, which started a proxy fight to replace the company's board.
Mr. Sherwood denied the charges and started a proxy campaign to elect three dissident directors, including himself, to the ChinaCast board.
They started a proxy fight, trying to unseat Mr. Sitaras as C.E.O., dilute his 53 percent ownership stake and transform the gym into a more mainstream club.
Mr. Icahn had already started a proxy fight to replace Yahoo's board, which includes Mr. Yang, but had not previously said that he also planned to strip Mr. Yang of his chief executive role.
This endorsement turns the momentum in favour of the deal, which seemed all but dead when Walter Hewlett, son of one of HP's co-founders and a member of the company's board, started a proxy fight in November.
