October 9, 2012
Day Trading During Proxy Contests
In this podcast, Chuck Nathan of RLM Finsbury discusses an interesting – and potentially novel – situation in a proxy contest in which The Clinton Group (led by Greg Taxin, formerly a Glass Lewis founder) is seeking to remove 6 out of 7 directors through a written consent campaign and replace them with five new directors of Clinton’s choosing. Clinton seems to be day trading Wet Seal stock, which may be the first instance in which an activist investor day traded the stock of a company during a proxy contest it was sponsoring.