Activist investor pushing for M&C Saatchi break-up builds stake Media A notorious activist investment firm has added to its stake in M&C Saatchi in a move that brings it a step closer to orchestrating a break-up of one of Britain’s best-known advertising companies. Harwood Capital now owns more than eight per cent of the eponymous agency founded by advertising tycoons Maurice and Charles in 1995, [...]
City grandees launch bid to unseat Urban Logistics chair Investing An investment trust run by City grandees has called a shareholder vote to unseat the chair and two directors of Urban Logistics REIT. City veterans Christopher Mills and Robert Naylor run Achilles Investment Company, and have banded together with Waverton Investment Management, TR Property Investment Trust and Harwood Capital to launch the takeover. Naylor and [...]