(Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn reported a 7.6 percent stake in oil and gas company Chesapeake Energy Corp , and asked for at least four members of its board to be replaced. The corporate-raider-turned-activist investor wanted 2 board seats for his own representatives and 2 for Chesapeake's largest shareholder Southeastern Asset Management. Icahn holds 50.1 million shares in the company, according to a regulatory filing. (Reporting by Divya Lad in Bangalore; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)
Aubrey McClendon will no longer be running Chesapeake Energy Corpcome April 1. But he is likely to remain deeply entangled with the company he founded 24 years ago.
Vincent Intrieri will represent billionaire Carl Icahn on Chesapeake Energy Corp's board of directors, CNBC reported on Monday. Icahn and Southeastern Asset Management, two of Chesapeake's largest investors, ...
By ValueMax:Going in to Chesapeake's (CHK) Annual Shareholders Meeting, CEO Aubrey McClendon and the Board of Directors certainly knew that they were heading in to a fight for survival.