Bessiere, Veronique; Kaestner, Michael; Lafont, … - In: Applied Financial Economics 21 (2011) 16, pp. 1225-1234
Over the period from October 2006 to May 2008, Atos Origin, a French information technology company, was the target of two activist hedge funds, Centaurus and Pardus. This article investigates in detail how the activists initiated their actions, how the management organized its defence and how...