Mick McGuire, who succeeded in installing three dissident directors onto the wing and beer chain in June, agrees to vote his shares in favor of the deal, which comes after over a year of agitations.

Hedge fund Marcato Capital Management, which owns nearly 6 percent of Deckers Outdoor Corp, said shares in the maker of UGG boots could more than double by 2020 if it sells off pieces of its footwear business, buys back shares and overhauls executive compensation.

Mick McGuire looks at Terex and sees a diversified manufacturer with a lot of upside if it can just get leaner. The activist head of Marcato Capital took an interest in the company a year ago and has been pushing it to streamline, focusing on strong segments and shaking loose some of the less-profitable ends. Over the past year or so, McGuire’s firm has been working with Terex CEO John Garrison Jr. to make that happen.

Activist investor Mick McGuire has issued an ultimatum to Deckers Outdoor (DECK). In a letter to the company’s board, McGuire’s Marcato Capital Management has threatened to replace the company’s board unless an ongoing strategic review process leads to a sale of the company.

An activist hedge fund won a fight to shake up Buffalo Wild Wings Inc. Friday, as shareholders voted in the fund’s founder and two of its nominees and Chief Executive Sally Smith announced she would retire by the end of the year.

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. plans to launch a $500 million share buyback plan, the brokerage’s biggest ever, after reporting a 23.4% jump in third-quarter profit.

Management at the US’s oldest bank faces unusually fierce challenge from Marcato and Trian

Corporate executives and boards are getting to know—often begrudgingly—names like Scott Ferguson, Mick McGuire and Jesse Cohn. They and a handful of other 30- and 40-something hedge fund managers are already running billions of dollars and agitating for change at big public companies

Gym operator Life Time Fitness Inc. LTM 2.11%increase; up pointing triangle agreed to be acquired by private-equity firms TPG and Leonard Green & Partners L.P. for more than $2.8 billion, in one of the largest U.S. leveraged buyouts so far this year.

An American hedge fund has stepped up attempts to persuade hotelier InterContinental Hotels, which runs the Crowne Plaza, and Holiday Inn brands, to consider a blockbuster merger

NCR Corp, which makes automated teller machines, said on Monday that hedge fund manager Richard McGuire, NCR's biggest shareholder, will join its board less than a month after the company lowered its earnings forecast for the year.

Gym operator Life Time Fitness Inc. said it may put its property into a real-estate investment trust, a step that could help lower its tax bill and shape up its stock.

Sotheby's faces one hedge fund manager—Daniel Loeb of Third Point LLC—loudly banging down the doors over its performance. Meanwhile, another hedge fund is working behind the doors to get the company to sell its physical home.

Discover how United Rentals capitalized on economic shifts in Marcato Capital Management's compelling 2013 presentation, "Renting the Recovery."

Business Insider profiled Mick McGuire in 2013, shortly after Marcato was named U.S. equity hedge fund of the year by Absolute Return Alpha and McGuire was named emerging fund manager of the year by Institutional Investor. The piece traces his path from Pershing Square and an early chairmanship at Borders to founding Marcato in San Francisco at 34.

On Wednesday, global art auctioneer Sotheby's announced that its board of directors would review its capital allocation and financial policies, with results expected in early 2014.

Hedge fund manager Mick McGuire is not an art collector and has never felt the thrill of bidding in a Sotheby's auction, where adrenaline spikes with each multimillion-dollar sale of a Cezanne, Rothko or Picasso.

Call it the battle of the mini-titans. Two new activist hedge funds — one run by a former Carl Icahn lieutenant and the other by one of Bill Ackman’s former portfolio managers — are battling with more established rivals to become the fastest-growing funds of the year.

Auto parts maker Lear Corp avoided a proxy battle with investors Marcato Capital Management LLC and Oskie Capital Management LLC by agreeing to increase and quicken the pace of its share buyback program and add a board member.

Bill Ackman's protege Mick McGuire, like his teacher, scrutinizes the value of the property owned by the companies he's evaluating.