U.K. Pension Issue Boggs Down
Federal-Mogul's Bid to Emerge
By SILVIA ASCARELLI
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
August 10, 2004
LONDON -- U.S. financier Carl Icahn, one of the most prominent "corporate raiders" of the 1980s, is at the heart of a showdown over the future of nearly 40,000 United Kingdom workers' pensions.
Mr. Icahn -- who once owned oil giant Texaco and air carrier Trans World Airlines and now is starting a hedge fund -- is the largest bondholder at Federal-Mogul Corp. of Southfield, Mich., an auto-parts supplier in the Detroit suburb that could emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization later this year. Bondholders, led by Mr. Icahn, would then own 49.9% of the company and control the board.