Cordex to pay Strong $200,000 on asset sale
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Cordex Petroleums Inc. of Denver, CO, will compensate its chairman, Maurice Strong, with the payment of $200,000 for his role in the sale of most of the firm's assets. Strong, the former head of Ontario Hydro who also works as an unpaid adviser to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, has been credited by the company's board for his work in negotiating the $21-million divestiture of the firm's oil and gas holdings in South America to Gener SA of Chile. Strong, also the firm's biggest investor with a 17.3%-stake in the company, is expected to receive the payment at the deal's completion.
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Will compensate its chairman, Maurice Strong, with the payment of $200,000 for his role in the sale of most of the firm's assets
Publication Name: Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0319-0714
Year: 1998
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YBM shareholder prepares for battle
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YBM Magnex International Inc.'s major shareholder, Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd., is preparing to fight the company's board. Connor Clark of Vancouver, BC, holds about 16% of YBM. According to Connor Clark's lawyer Wesley Voorheis, YBM officials are planning to acquire a company in Eastern Europe despite problems already raised about the operation by the company's former auditors. Voorheis wants the company to appoint him into YBM's board of directors so they can start an independent investigation into the company's operations.
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Major shareholder, Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management, is preparing to fight the company's board
Publication Name: Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0319-0714
Year: 1998
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Dissident Repap shareholders remove chairman
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A group of dissident shareholders led by TD Asset Management Inc and CEO Stephen Larson has succeeded in ousting Steven Berg as chairman of Repap Enterprises Inc of Stamford, CN. The group has asked the shareholders during tha annual meeting to vote out Berg because they believe he is overpaid. The shareholders elected a slate of seven directors nominated by the dissidents. Repap posted a loss of $22.8 million in the 1st half 1999, after losing $51.4 million in FY98.
Publication Name: Globe & Mail (Toronto, Canada)
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0319-0714
Year: 1999
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