{"id":10412,"date":"2009-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-ups-stake-in-main-eircom-shareholder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2009\/hedge-fund-ups-stake-in-main-eircom-shareholder.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund ups stake in main Eircom shareholder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independent &#8211; A New York-based hedge fund, run by former Goldman Sachs executives and family members of the Ziff Davis publishing dynasty, has become the biggest shareholder in Babcock &amp; Brown Capital (BCM), Eircom&#8217;s main shareholder.<\/p>\n<p>Och-Ziff Capital Management now holds just over 12pc of the potential takeover target, having increased its stake from 4.76pc just a day after the unsolicited &euro;95m bid for BCM from an Australian consortium including Rob Topfer who orchestrated the company&#8217;s bid for Eircom back in 2006.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/business\/world\/hedge-fund-ups-stake-in--main-eircom-shareholder-1715317.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent &#8211; A New York-based hedge fund, run by former Goldman Sachs executives and family members of the Ziff Davis publishing dynasty, has become the biggest shareholder in Babcock &amp; Brown Capital (BCM), Eircom&#8217;s main shareholder. Och-Ziff Capital Management now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2410,10694,2506,10697,10698,10696,5448,398,2710,703,1099,1422,10693,10695,10692],"class_list":["post-10412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-amp","tag-australian-consortium","tag-babcock","tag-bcm","tag-dynasty","tag-eircom","tag-family-members","tag-goldman-sachs","tag-och-ziff-capital","tag-och-ziff-capital-management","tag-shareholder","tag-stake","tag-takeover-target","tag-topfer","tag-ziff-davis-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}