Hess Corp. has ended a proxy battle with major shareholder Elliott Management Corp. (4.4%) by agreeing to appoint three Elliott-backed nominees to its board of directors. The reconstituted board would comprise 14 members; nine were replaced following the annual meeting Thursday. The activist hedge fund, which had claimed that the company was mismanaged and controlled by Hess family interests, agreed to support five Hess nominees. The board now will be reelected every year instead of every three. Elliott also led the charge to split the chairman and CEO roles, now held by John Hess, the son of the company’s founder, and it has forced the company to sell its downstream arm and monetize Bakken Shale midstream assets.
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Supreme Court Appoints Special Master in New Jersey v. Delaware LNG Dispute
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House Expected to Name Energy Bill Conferees This Week
The House is expected to appoint conferees for the upcoming House-Senate conference on the omnibus energy after it returns from its recess on Monday (July 11), according to a Capitol Hill spokesman.
July 11, 2005
Senate Selects Conferees for Omnibus Energy Bill
Senate leaders on Friday named 14 conferees to the upcoming House-Senate conference on the omnibus energy bill (HR 6). The House has yet to appoint conferees.
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Ohio PUC Commissioner Recommended for FERC Seat
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April 5, 2005
Wood: Ex-FERC Regulators Recommended Him for TX PUC, Not Lay
It was two former FERC commissioners who recommended to then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush that he appoint a relative unknown at the time, Patrick Wood III, as a state regulator, Wood disclosed Thursday, dispelling reports that long-time Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay pulled political strings to get him the job.
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