Profile: Dale Hanson

Corporate raiders have changed in many ways since the 1980s but one of the key differences is their growing use of the shareholder activism banner. Take Bennett LeBow and Carl Icahn, who have laid down corporate governance as one plank in their battle to break up RJR Nabisco. LeBow and Icahn are backing this strategy with one of America's foremost activists: should their bid to spin off the Nabisco food business succeed, Dale Hanson will be chief corporate governance flag-bearer on their proposed