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Activist Investing Today: V&E's Elbaum on Covid-19 vs. 2008

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Many hedge funds first-time activists, family offices and private equity funds who have been contemplating activism are going to walk away from their campaigns, while established activist investors such as Carl Icahn are building stakes and pressing forward with insurgencies, according the co-head of Vinson & Elkins' shareholder activism practice. Elbaum looked back at the 2008 crisis to offer a view of how activist investors might act during the unfolding coronavirus outbreak.