One of Wall Street’s most high-pro­file hedge funds push­es Alex­ion's CEO to the auc­tion block — and he's not budg­ing

Fresh off buy­ing Barnes & No­ble and prod­ding AT&T with some heavy-hand­ed crit­i­cism af­ter pick­ing up a $3.2 bil­lion stake in the com­pa­ny, the ac­tivist — and supreme­ly high pro­file — hedge fund El­liott Man­age­ment has stepped up with some M&A ad­vice for Alex­ion’s man­age­ment team.

And the ex­ecs on the team $ALXN are giv­ing them a po­lite — but very firm — stiff arm Fri­day morn­ing.

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