Another major shakeup for Unibail Rodamco Westfield (ASX:URW) shareholders

It’s been a turbulent year for Unibail Rodamco Westfield (ASX: URW) shareholders. At the end of October, the Unibail share price was down 74% for the 2020 calendar year. That’s rough, even for a retail landlord operating in today’s pandemic battered times.

Year to date, however, the Unibail share price is now ‘only’ down 59%. This comes after a major share price rally last week saw shares gain 62% so far in November.

Much of that rally was owed to shareholders voting to reject the supervisory board’s 3.5 billion euro (AU$5.7 billion) capital raising, part of the company’s ‘reset’ plan to pay off its burdensome debt load.

The defeat of the capital raising proposal saw chair of the board, Colin Dyer, resign earlier…