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Icahn Backs Revised AmTrust Deal But Investor Arca Balks

U.S. insurer AmTrust Financial Services Inc. on Thursday agreed to be acquired by a group of investors for a sweetened $2.95 billion deal that also helped secure the support of dissenting shareholder Carl Icahn. Evergreen Parent, an entity formed by …

AmTrust, Lacking Votes, Reschedules Meeting on Contested Going-Private Plan

Lacking enough shareholder votes for approval, AmTrust Financial Services Inc. has postponed until June 21, 2018, the special meeting on a plan to take the insurer private. The meeting was originally scheduled for yesterday but the company said it does …

Icahn Sues AmTrust Directors, Claims Privatization Plan Hurts Investors

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn sued the directors of AmTrust Financial Services Inc., Chief Executive Officer Barry Zyskind and the family that controls the insurer to challenge a plan to take the insurer private, arguing it will shortchange investors. Icahn, who …

Arca Capital Backs Icahn in Trying to Stop AmTrust Privatization Plan

The Prague-based investment firm Arca Capital said it plans to work with activist investor Carl Icahn and other minority shareholders to prevent a proposed privatization of AmTrust Financial Services Inc. Arca Capital owns approximately 2.4 percent of outstanding shares of …

Investor Icahn Opposes AmTrust Plan to Go Private

AmTrust Financial Services Inc. jumped almost 12 percent in late trading Thursday after billionaire Carl Icahn disclosed a stake in the company and said he planned to oppose its plans to go private. “I am strongly against the proposed going-private …