The extraordinary shareholders' meeting on 18 July Dell must decide whether to agree to the terms of Michael Dell and Silver Lake, offering to buy back the shares at the rate of $ 13.65 per share for a total of $ 24.4 billion, thereby taking the company private. A special committee has questioned the ability of Dell Aikan Charles and his allies to collect the necessary sum for an alternative transaction, implying a higher dividend payout of $ 12 per share. In the opinion of the committee, Icahn overestimate their capabilities by as much as $ 4 billion
Recall that the essence of the contradictions between institutional investors reduced to a fair evaluation of Dell shares . Aikan Supporters argue that $ 13.65 per share - it's too small. They offer to pay all shareholders $ 12 per share, and let them keep the securities, which in the future can bring them some income.
Icahn and his allies have begun to select candidates for the post of General Manager Dell - remember that this part of the shareholders claimed that the director and founder of Dell Michael Dell all the troubles once the second-largest computer maker in the world, and wants to lawful means to achieve his resignation from the election of a new board of directors. Among the possible candidates for the post of Dell director mentioned Cisco Systems Michael Capellas , a former head of IBM Corporate Services direction Michael Daniels , Oracle president Mark Hurd (Mark Hurd) and the head of HP's PC release Todd Bradley (Todd Bradley). .