Occidental Petroleum Corp’s activist investor Carl Icahn has filed a lawsuit against the company over what it called its “misguided” pact to buy Anadarko Petroleum Corp, and may seek a special meeting to remove and replace board members. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in Delaware by a group of Icahn companies, calls Occidental’s recent agreement to purchase Anadarko for $38 billion “fundamentally misguided and hugely overpriced,” and says “management wanted to avoid a vote at almost all costs.” Icahn, who has built a $1.6 billion position in the company, believes “that the Occidental board and management are in far over their heads, have made numerous blunders in recent months and might continue to trip over their feet if the […]