1.   ...a man who had survived his share of boardroom coups.

2.   As two top Burnett executives were forced out in a boardroom coup, two big consumer marketers were making changes involving their accounts.

3.   A few years later, Jobs left Apple in a boardroom coup for which he blamed Sculley.

4.   Leonard Shoen and six of his children sued the company over the ouster of Shoen as chairman in a boardroom coup engineered by his son, Edward Shoen.

5.   Vyakhirev was ousted in May in a boardroom coup following allegations of corruption and replaced by a Putin ally, Alexei Miller.

6.   Mars had previously indicated it was unhappy that chairman and co-founder Maurice Saatchi had been ousted in a boardroom coup in December.

7.   Maurice Saatchi left the company he founded as a result of a shareholder-inspired boardroom coup in December.

8.   Since Vienot spoke out against the rescue the French business world has been shaken by a number of unprecedented shareholder revolts and boardroom coups.

9.   Speculation has been rife in the French investment community in the last weeks that a boardroom coup might even seek to depose of Messier.