The long United States Steel saga has suddenly become a matter of urgency. Boss David Burritt is fighting to salvage a $15 billion sale to Nippon Steel . Rival bidder Cleveland-Cliffs wants another shot at a takeover.

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An asset manager is seeking to quash Nippon Steel’s takeover of U.S. Steel and oust the leadership of the U.S. steelmaker after taking a stake in the company. Ancora Holdings Group, with $10 billion in assets,

Ancora Holdings, a Mayfield Heights-based institutional asset management company and private wealth advisor, is calling on U.S. Steel to drop its merger agreement with Japanese-owned Nippon Steel, end its litigation against the federal government seeking to keep the deal alive and oust its Chief Executive.

Kestenbaum, currently the CEO of private equity firm Bedrock Industries Group, is known as a turnaround artist. At one time known for an attempted bid for the National Football League’s Carolina Panthers, the Brooklyn-born native is highly regarded in the steel industry.

Ancora Holdings Group, with $10 billion in assets, reported acquiring a 0.18% stake in the Pittsburgh company. It said Monday that US Steel CEO David Burritt and the company’s board have prioritized a sale to Nippon because they stand to receive more than $100 million if it goes forward.

Investment firm Ancora has nominated nine candidates to US Steel’s board of directors, as it looks to unseat company CEO David Burritt and pressure

Cleveland-based activist investor Ancora is pushing for U.S. Steel to elect a new board of directors that would stop its merger with Nippon Steel.

The battle over American manufacturing icon U.S. Steel just got a little stranger than it already was. An activist investor is trying to scuttle a deal between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel that was already on life support.

Activist investor Ancora has nominated nine candidates to U.S. Steel's board of directors, as it looks to oust company CEO David Burritt and push the American steelmaker to back out of a $14.9 billion merger deal with Japan's Nippon Steel.

Ancora Holdings Group, with $10 billion in assets, reported acquiring a 0.18% stake in the Pittsburgh company. It said Monday that U.S. Steel CEO David Burritt and the company’s board have prioritized a sale to Nippon because they stand to receive more than $100 million if it goes forward.

NEW YORK -- At the center of the legal battle over Nippon Steel's planned purchase of U.S. Steel is a pair of strong personalities: Eiji Hashimoto, the Nippon Steel CEO who once sued key customer Toyota Motor, and Lourenco Goncalves, the blunt-spoken CEO of rival steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs.