{"id":34153,"date":"2013-02-28T02:59:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T07:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=34153"},"modified":"2013-02-28T02:59:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T07:59:21","slug":"hedge-funds-up-offer-for-commonwealth-reit-with-a-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2013\/hedge-funds-up-offer-for-commonwealth-reit-with-a-catch.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Up Offer For CommonWealth REIT, With A Catch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Under fire from hedge funds, office and industrial commerical property owner CommonWealth REIT is standing its ground. The real estate investment trust said Wednesday it will push forward with a major equity offering, over cries of resistance from investors that control nearly 18% of its shares.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy started when CommonWealth announced its plan to sell 31.5 million shares and use the expected $450 million in proceeds to pay down debt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/steveschaefer\/2013\/02\/27\/keith-meister-draws-support-for-battle-with-commonwealth-reit\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Under fire from hedge funds, office and industrial commerical property owner CommonWealth REIT is standing its ground. The real estate investment trust said Wednesday it will push forward with a major equity offering, over cries of resistance from [&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-34153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34153","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=34153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34154,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34153\/revisions\/34154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}