The investor co-ordinating opposition to a €7.5bn ($9.4bn) private equity take-over of VNU claimed yesterday his alternative plan for the Dutch business information company "has the support of major shareholders".
Eric Knight, managing director of Knight Vinke Asset Management, said: "There are one or two cases where there is more than one fund manager managing the position and we have two going one way and one going the other, but essentially we have the support of the major shareholders."
