Here is a nugget from YHOO's sec filing today. If I'm interpreting this correctly, then YHOO shareholders, especially the big ones, won't dare to vote for Icahn slate - because if Icahn wins a majority, it may trigger the poison pill automatically. Anyone else would like to weigh in?
I see this heading to a Delaware court one way or the other.
"As previously noted, the Icahn Entities have provided notice that they intend to nominate their own slate of ten (10) nominees for election as directors at the annual meeting. Under the Change in Control Severance Plans, a change in control is deemed to have occurred if the members of the Board of Directors as of February 12, 2008 (and any new directors whose appointment, election or nomination to the Board of Directors was approved or recommended by a vote of at least two-thirds of the directors then in office who were either directors on February 12, 2008 or whose appointment, election or nomination for election was previously so approved or recommended) cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors. If five or more of the Icahn Nominees are elected to the Board of Directors at the annual meeting, a change in control will be deemed to have occurred for purposes of the Change in Control Severance Plans."
I see this heading to a Delaware court one way or the other.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1011006/000089161808000295/f37157r1prer14a.htm#104
"As previously noted, the Icahn Entities have provided notice that they intend to nominate their own slate of ten (10) nominees for election as directors at the annual meeting. Under the Change in Control Severance Plans, a change in control is deemed to have occurred if the members of the Board of Directors as of February 12, 2008 (and any new directors whose appointment, election or nomination to the Board of Directors was approved or recommended by a vote of at least two-thirds of the directors then in office who were either directors on February 12, 2008 or whose appointment, election or nomination for election was previously so approved or recommended) cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors. If five or more of the Icahn Nominees are elected to the Board of Directors at the annual meeting, a change in control will be deemed to have occurred for purposes of the Change in Control Severance Plans."