A co-owner of England’s Liverpool Football Club is seeking help from hedge funds to end his acrimonious relationship with the soccer team’s other owner.

Activist hedge fund The Children’s Investment Fund has fired a new salvo in its battle with U.S. railroad company CSX Corp. with a letter to CSX investors urging support for its board slate.

JWM Partners is shrinking in more ways than one.

HBK Investments, the largest shareholder of Circuit City Stores, is pushing the electronics retailer to accept an unsolicited bid from Blockbuster Inc. The Dallas-based hedge fund also indicated it might help finance the deal.

New York-based Sandell Asset Management and Pequot Ventures have joined the battle for change at ASM International.

Activist hedge fund Harbinger Capital Management has succeeded in getting its slate of director candidates elected to Media General’s board.

Preliminary results show that shareholders of the Richmond, Va.-based publisher elected Harbinger’s dissident slate of three.

The Childrens’ Investment Fund is making good on its threat to fight Japan’s rejection of its bid to boost its stake in the country’s largest electric utility on all available fronts.

The Children’s Investment Fund is decrying Japan’s rejection of its bid for a larger stake in the country’s largest electric utility, but the activist hedge fund says it will not stop agitating for change.

The Japanese government appears set to block a British activist hedge fund’s bid to boost its stake in the country’s largest electric utility.

Chris Hohn has demonstrated, time and again, that he knows how to fight fire with fire.