Keyword: First Manhattan

News

Vivus Gives First Manhattan Board Majority, Zook to be CEO

22.07.2013 - Vivus has agreed to give dissident shareholder First Manhattan a board majority, ending an acrimonious proxy fight and bringing in a new CEO to the drugmaker accused of bungling...

News

Vivus Says FMC Rejects Offer To Settle Proxy Fight

18.07.2013 - Obesity drug maker Vivus, embroiled in a bitter proxy war with its top shareholder First Manhattan, said on Wednesday that FMC had rejected an offer to give the sides equal...

News

Vivus Shareholder To Support Activist’s Slate

11.07.2013 - QVT Financial, the third-largest shareholder in obesity drugmaker Vivus, intends to vote for the full slate of nine directors proposed by dissident investor First Manhattan, a...

News

Anthony Zook Proposed as Possible Vivus CEO

03.07.2013 - Vivus' largest shareholder on Tuesday took the unusual step of naming the man it would install as the drugmaker's chief executive should it prevail in its battle to gain control of...