Carl Celian Icahn (/ˈaɪkɑːn/; born February 16, 1936) is an American businessman and investor. He is the founder and controlling shareholder of Icahn Enterprises, a public company and diversified conglomerate holding company based in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. Icahn's business model is to take large stakes in companies that he believes will appreciate from changes to corporate policy. Subsequently, Icahn then pressures management to make the changes that he believes will benefit shareholders, and him. Widely regarded as one of the most successful hedge fund managers of all time and one of the greatest investors on Wall Street, he was one of the first activist shareholders and is credited with making that investment strategy mainstream for hedge funds.[1]
In 1968, with $150,000 of his own money and a $400,000 investment from his uncle, M. Elliot Schnall, Icahn bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange[10] and formed Icahn & Co., which focused on risk arbitrage and options trading.[17]
In 1978, in his first takeover attempt, he took a controlling stake in Tappan and forced the sale of the company to Electrolux, making a profit of $2.7 million, or doubling his investment. In 1979, he acquired Bayswater Realty & Capital Corporation. In 1983, he acquired ACF Industries and in 1985 he sold those shares to Phillips Petroleum, making a $50 million profit.[9][failed verification]
In 1985, by pooling his funds with investor funds and funds borrowed from banks, Icahn acquired 50% of Trans World Airlines, and he completely acquired the company in a leveraged buyout in 1988.[2] Icahn systematically sold TWA's assets to repay money he owed, which was described as "asset stripping" and made him known as a "corporate raider". In 1991, he sold TWA's London routes to American Airlines for $445 million.[3] Icahn made a $469 million profit, and left TWA with $540 million in debt. He formed lowestfare.com to sell TWA tickets and acquired portions of Global Leisure Travel from Ramy El-Batrawi.[18]
In October 1986, Icahn launched an unsuccessful $8 billion hostile takeover for 89% of U.S. Steel; the bid was dropped in January 1987.[19][20] In 1991, he sold his stake in the company for $1 billion, making a $200 million profit.[21]
In June 1989, in the largest share sale to date on the New York Stock Exchange, Icahn sold his stake in Texaco for $2 billion, making a profit of $700 million.[22]
In 1990, he offered to acquire Pan Am for $375 million.[23]
In March 1998, he again bid for Pan Am, offering $43 million.[28]
In December 1998, Icahn led an investor group that acquired a 5% stake in RJR Nabisco and pressured the company's management to separate its tobacco and food units.[29]
In July 2001, Icahn's Riverdale, LLC lent Genesisintermedia $100 million and received options to purchase 5.5 million shares of the company at an average price of $5.09.[30]
In 2004, after Mylan announced a $4 billion stock deal to acquire King Pharmaceuticals, Icahn purchased a large block of stock and threatened a proxy fight, urging shareholders to vote against the acquisition.[32][33][34] In February 2005, Mylan gave up its efforts to acquire King.[35]
2005–2010
In 2005, XO Communications announced its intention to sell the wired part of its business for $700 million to Icahn, who was then chairman and a large shareholder; the money would be used to pay back its debts and to buy back its preferred stock for about $600 million from Icahn. Icahn would have then owned the wired business outright, and still own his 60% stake in XO.[36] Despite Icahn's majority ownership and the board of directors declaring the deal to be in the best interest of shareholders, R2 and other minority shareholders blocked the transaction through the court system in 2008, which charged Icahn with penalties due to his conflict of interest.[37]
In August 2006, Icahn bought stock in Take-Two Interactive, a video game publisher, and increased his holdings to 11.3% in 2009, becoming the company's second-largest shareholder.[38]
In January 2007, he purchased a 9.2% stake in Telik, a biotech company engaged in cancer research. He also acquired 6.1 million shares of WCI Communities, later acquired by Lennar.
In May 2007, Icahn lost an election for a seat on the board of directors of Motorola, despite owning 3% of the company.[39]
On February 9, 2007, Lear Corporation's board of directors accepted a $2.3 billion takeover offer from Icahn.[40][41]
That month he also invested $50 million in Motricity, a North Carolina-based provider of mobile content delivery technology.
In September 2007, Icahn increased his stake in BEA Systems to 13.22%,[42] a few months before Oracle Corporation announced its acquisition of BEA Systems, which Icahn supported.[43]
Beginning in 2007, Icahn gradually increased his stake in Biogen.[44][45]
In March 2008, Icahn sued Motorola as part of his effort to gain four seats on Motorola's board and force a sale of its mobile business.[47]
In May 2008, Icahn purchased a large block of shares in Yahoo!, and shortly thereafter threatened to start a proxy fight to remove Yahoo's board of directors in response to their rejection of a takeover bid by Microsoft.[48] Instead, he forced an agreement to expand Yahoo's board to eleven members, including Icahn and two others of his choice.[49]
In June 2008, Icahn launched a blog, The Icahn Report.[50]
In December 2008, he filed suit against Realogy over a proposed debt swap.[52]
In April 2009, Icahn engaged in a proxy battle for Amylin.[53]
In September 2009, he offered to buy the shares of XO he did not already own for $0.55 each. He later raised his offer to $0.80, which ultimately expired.
In October, he resigned from the board of directors at Yahoo!,[54] and by the following February had reduced his equity stake from a one-time high of 75 million shares to 12 million shares.[55]
In February 2010, Icahn, through a subsidiary of his Icahn Enterprises LP, acquired the Fontainebleau Las Vegas for about $150 million. In March he was one of a group of lenders who purchased Tropicana Casino & Resort Atlantic City, bringing the company out of bankruptcy for $200 million.
In May 2010, he announced the purchase of an 8.54% stake in Lawson Software.[57]
2010–2015
In May 2010, Icahn held a 6.9% stake in Mentor Graphics,[58] increasing to 14% in July. Mentor's retaliation with a shareholder rights plan failed to deter Icahn who, in February 2011, made an unsuccessful offer to buy the company for about $1.86 billion in cash.[59]
In January 2011, Icahn offered to buy Clorox for $10.2 billion.[60] By February he had accumulated a 9.08% stake in the company.[61]
In October 2012, Icahn reported a 10% stake in Netflix.[62][63]
In November 2012, he tried to gain control of the board of directors of Oshkosh Corporation.[64]
In February 2013, Forbes listed Icahn as one of the 40 highest-earning hedge fund managers.[65]
By April 2013, Icahn accumulated a 9.2% stake in Nuance Communications.[66] On August 2, 2013, Icahn sued computer giant Dell and its board in an attempt to derail a $24.4 billion buyout bid by the CEO, Michael Dell, in favor of his own rumored forthcoming bid.[67] In October 2013, Icahn held 4.7 million shares of Apple Inc.[68][69][70] The same month, Icahn acquired around 61 million shares in Talisman Energy, leading to a surge in the share price.[71] Also that month, he sold about 50% of his shares in Netflix for a profit in excess of $800 million in less than one year.
In November 2013, he acquired a 12.5% interest in Hologic, a medical device and diagnostics manufacturer.
In January 2014, Icahn invested another half billion dollars in Apple Inc.[72]
Also in January 2014, Icahn pushed eBay to complete the corporate spin-off of PayPal. This started a proxy fight which was settled by April.[73]
In October 2014, Icahn invested in Talisman Energy. The company's stock price went down by 71% and he sold his shares two months later.[74]
2015–present
On May 15, 2015, Icahn made a $100 million investment in Lyft.[75]
In November 2015, Icahn hired CBRE Group to market the unfinished Fontainebleau Las Vegas to potential buyers.[76] Also in November 2015, he swapped his stake in eBay for shares in PayPal.[77] Also in November 2015, Icahn disclosed a 7.13% stake in Xerox.[78]
In December 2015, Icahn offered to acquire Pep Boys.[79] He also raised his stake in Cheniere Energy to 13.8%, making him its largest shareholder.[80]
In January 2016, Icahn disclosed a 4.66% stake in Gannett Company[82] and also held shares in Cheniere Energy and Freeport-McMoRan, both of which declined in value.[74] Icahn sold his Apple shares in April 2016, citing concerns about Apple's relationship with China.[83]
Also in October 2016, Icahn closed the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, citing a $350 million loss over several years as well as failure to reach a deal with striking union workers. Nearly 3,000 workers lost their jobs.[85][86]
In November 2016, he increased his holdings in the car rental company The Hertz Corporation, after the company's stock price had declined significantly.[87]
In May 2020, Icahn sold his entire 39% stake, or 55.3 million shares, of Hertz Global for 72 cents a share. He lost almost $2 billion on the investment.[89]
In February 2022 Icahn, who held 200 shares of the company, nominated two people for election to McDonald's board of directors in what may be the first step toward a proxy fight.[90] Icahn aims to pressure McDonald's to improve conditions of pigs raised by its suppliers.[91]
However, in May 2022, only 1% of McDonald's' shareholders voted in favor of nominees put forward by Icahn, scoring a victory against his demands for the improvement of conditions in which pigs are raised. In its statement, McDonald's claimed it is already moving towards a more humane approach to the issue since its pledge in 2012, adding that Icahn's demands were unreasonable.[92]
In May 2023, short seller Hindenburg Research released an analysis of Icahn's public company Icahn Enterprises that claims the company is over-valued due to paying large dividends using investments from new investors. In addition, the analysis claims that Icahn took out loans against a majority of his holdings and that these have the potential to be called should the stock price move downward. On the day of the release of this analysis, the share price of Icahn Enterprises dropped by 20%.[93]
Public policy and economic views
Icahn endorsed Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election. He also announced the formation of a super PAC pledging $150 million to push for corporate tax reform, in particular of tax inversions, which occur when corporations move their headquarters from the U.S. to take advantage of lower tax rates elsewhere.[94]
On December 21, 2016, it was announced that Icahn would serve as special advisor to the president on regulatory reform under President Donald Trump and that Icahn would aid Trump in an "individual capacity" rather than as a federal employee, and that he would not have "specific duties" and therefore would not have to relinquish his business interests while serving as an advisor to Trump.[98] Icahn stepped down from this role on August 18, 2017, citing a desire not to interfere with the work of Neomi Rao as administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.[99][100][101][102][11]
In February 2018, Icahn avoided a $6 million loss by selling some of his holdings in a steel-price sensitive stock just days before the Trump administration announced a 25% tariff on steel imports.[103]
When the President had Icahn interview Scott Pruitt during consideration of his nomination as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Icahn specifically asked Pruitt about his position on the EPA's Renewable Fuel Standard.[104] Icahn spoke directly to President Trump and to Gary Cohn about his proposed changes to the ethanol rule.[104] CVR Energy, in which Icahn has 82% ownership, would save $205.9 million a year if Icahn's proposal was adopted.[104] The Sugar Land, Texas oil refinery benefited when President Trump made an exception to his regulation freeze to expand the tax advantage of master limited partnerships.[104] CVR Energy's stock doubled after President Trump's election, increasing $455 million in value.[104]
Personal life
In the summer of 1978, Icahn, then 41 years old, met Liba Trejbal, a 28-year-old ballerina from the former Czechoslovakia. She became pregnant 8 months later and Icahn offered to marry her if she signed a prenuptial agreement. They were married in March 1979. In October 1993, Liba filed for divorce and sued to invalidate the prenuptial agreement, claiming she signed it under duress due to the pregnancy. The divorce was settled in July 1999.[105][106][107][108][109] They have two children, Brett Icahn and Michelle Celia Icahn Nevin.[106] His nephew is Rick Schnall.[110]
In 1999, Icahn married his longtime assistant and former broker, Gail Golden.[108] She has two children from a previous marriage.[106]
Philanthropy
Icahn Stadium on Randall's Island in New York City is named after him, as is the Carl C. Icahn Center for Science and Icahn Scholar Program at Choate Rosemary Hall, a prep school in Connecticut. This organization pays for tuition, room and board, books, and supplies for 10 students every year for four years (freshman–senior), an endowment valued at about $400,000 per annum.
Icahn made a substantial contribution to his alma mater, Princeton University, to fund a genomics laboratory which bears his name, the Carl C. Icahn Laboratory at the university's Institute for Integrated Genomics.[111] He also made large contributions to Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, of which he is a trustee, which in return named a building the Icahn Medical Institute designed by Davis Brody Bond, and also, in 2013, renamed the Mount Sinai School of Medicine as the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.[112] The genomics institute led by Brian Brown, PhD, was renamed the Icahn Genomics Institute.[113]
His foundation, the Children's Rescue Fund, built Icahn House in The Bronx, a 65-unit complex for homeless families consisting of single pregnant women and single women with children, and operates Icahn House East and Icahn House West, both of which are homeless shelters in New York City.
In 2004, he was honored by the Center for Educational Innovation – Public Education Association for his work with charter schools.
In 2006, he was honored with the 100 Women in Hedge Funds Effecting Change Award for his outstanding contributions to improving education.
Thoroughbred horse racing
In 1985, Icahn established Foxfield Thoroughbreds, a horse breeding operation. At that year's Newstead Farm Trust sale run by Fasig-Tipton, he paid $4 million for Larida, a 6-year-old mare and a record $7 million for the 4-year-old bay mare Miss Oceana who was in foal to champion sire, Northern Dancer.[117]
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