Samsung C&T Shareholders Back Merger Over Hedge Fund’s Objections
By Choi Chi-hun, president and chief executive at Samsung C&T, being surrounded by reporters at a general meeting of stockholders in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday. Credit Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
SEOUL, South Korea — Shareholders of a subsidiary of Samsung Group voted in favor of a merger with another Samsung company on Friday, removing a major hurdle for a father-to-son transfer of power in the family that controls South Korea’s largest conglomerate.
In the intensely watched meeting on Friday, shareholders of Samsung C&T approved the merger with 69.53 percent in favor, delivering a crushing defeat to the activist hedge fund Elliott Associates, which opposed it. The proposal required a two-thirds majority for approval…
Samsung C&T Shareholders Back Merger Over Hedge Fund’s Objections