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Martin Lipton said that 30 years ago companies were unlikely to undertake strategic changes in the face of shareholder activism or takeover threats.
“Companies today have been much more inclined in the face of that kind of pressure to undertake strategic revisions,” he said, pointing to management or strategy changes, or even moves like that undertaken by Kerr-McGee, to sell assets under pressure from corporate raider Carl Icahn.
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