{"id":30877,"date":"2012-08-24T04:41:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T08:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=30877"},"modified":"2012-08-24T04:41:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T08:41:09","slug":"brookfield-squares-off-against-u-s-hedge-fund-pershing-square-over-sale-of-ggp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2012\/brookfield-squares-off-against-u-s-hedge-fund-pershing-square-over-sale-of-ggp.html","title":{"rendered":"Brookfield squares off against U.S. hedge fund Pershing Square over sale of GGP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Business &#8211; Toronto&#8217;s Brookfield Asset Management Inc., the largest shareholder of General Growth Properties, is squaring off against a U.S. activist hedge fund that wants the U.S. mall owner to put itself up for sale.<\/p>\n<p>New York hedge fund Pershing Square Capital \u2014 which successfully overhauled management at CP Railway (TSX:CP) earlier this year \u2014 filed a letter Thursday asking GGP&#8217;s board of directors to form a special committee, independent of Brookfield directors, to consider the sale of the company, which has successfully emerged from bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianbusiness.com\/article\/96378--brookfield-squares-off-against-u-s-hedge-fund-pershing-square-over-sale-of-ggp\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Business &#8211; Toronto&#8217;s Brookfield Asset Management Inc., the largest shareholder of General Growth Properties, is squaring off against a U.S. activist hedge fund that wants the U.S. mall owner to put itself up for sale. New York hedge fund [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30877","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30878,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30877\/revisions\/30878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}