4 Merger and Acquisitions Stock Stories for Thursday Attention

Dell (NASDAQ:DELL): Current price $14.25

The activist investor Carl Icahn on Thursday pressed Dell to pay out $15.7 billion in a special dividend, as he joins a growing clamor of opposition to founder Michael Dell’s plan to take the world’s number-three personal computer maker private. Icahn wrote to Dell’s board to propose a leveraged recapitalization, and also said that the $24.4 billion go-private deal “substantially undervalues the company”. Dr. Anthony Michael Sabino, a professor in the law department at John’s University’s Peter J. Tobin College of Business, said that ”when Carl Icahn talks, people need to listen – especially, in this case, the Dell board.”

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