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Hedge Funds Might Blow a $4.4 Billion Light Bulb Deal

Hedge funds have got AMS AG over a barrel. The Austrian sensor maker this week made a desperate-sounding appeal to shareholders in Osram Licht AG to accept its 4 billion-euro ... read more

Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Marshall Wace LLP, Millennium Management, Cognex Corporation (CGNX), Post Holdings Inc (POST), and More

One of London’s most successful hedge funds has declared profits of £258m, delivering a multimillion-pound windfall to its 17 partners. Marshall Wace’s limited liability partnership reported turnover ... read more

Obama’s Last Shot

“Nature has a vote now,” says Chris Lehane, a political consultant who works with Tom Steyer, a hedge-fund-billionaire-turned-climate ... “Look at what’s happened with LED light bulbs, with ... read more

Anonymous philanthropy is over: 6 public treasures billionaires just needed their names on

Koch Theater David Koch, besides being in the oil and gas business with his brother Charles and manipulating the political landscape in his libertarian vision, is a ballet fan who happens to be worth ... read more

Japan's Cozy Culture Club

What if agreed deals were opened to outside bidders? That wouldn't be without risk for activist investors: The resulting price could be lower as well as higher. These hedge funds are betting on more ... read more

Hedge Funds Have Never Been This Bullish On Uniqure NV (QURE)

Before putting in our own effort and resources into finding a good investment, we can quickly utilize hedge fund expertise to give us a quick glimpse of whether that stock could make for a good ... read more

CVS's Monster Debt Sale Highlights a Major Deal Problem

CVS on Tuesday launched one of the biggest-ever corporate-debt sales to fund the merger. All that debt will also form one of the biggest barriers to the union's success. This deal ... billion bond ... read more

Wary banks struggle for deal with Argentine debt holdouts

Citigroup , Deutsche Bank , HSBC and JP Morgan offered the holdout hedge funds 40 cents on the dollar for the roughly $1.66 billion of bonds ... on pessimism over a potential deal. "Just when it ... read more

Visa IPO prices at record $17.9B

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Visa buyers paid a whopping $17.9 billion, or $44 a share, when the company priced its initial ... which Sweet says was the largest stock flip in IPO history. "When there were ... read more

Hedge Funds Might Blow a $4.4 Billion Light Bulb Deal

Things might be simpler if one single hedge fund — for example Elliott Management Corp. — had emerged as a dominant force to negotiate a grand bargain. As things stand, the register is fragmented and ... read more