{"id":3649,"date":"2005-11-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-demand-versatel-board-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2005\/hedge-funds-demand-versatel-board-changes.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds demand Versatel board changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  LONDON, Nov 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Hedge funds representing 15.5 percent of shares in Dutch telecoms firm Versatel demanded changes to its supervisory board on Monday, continuing their resistance to a  takeover by Sweden&#8217;s Tele2 AB (TEL2b.ST: <a href=\"..\/stocks\/overview.aspx?symbol=TEL2b.ST\">Quote<\/a>, <a href=\"..\/stocks\/CompanyProfile.aspx?symbol=TEL2b.ST\">Profile<\/a>, <a href=  \"..\/stocks\/ResearchReports.aspx?symbol=TEL2b.ST\">Research<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>  Tele2 acquired 74 percent of Versatel&#8217;s share capital in a 1.34 billion euro ($1.58 billion) tender offer which it declared unconditional last month<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/business\/newsArticle.aspx?type=telecomm&amp;storyID=nL28755724\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, Nov 28 (Reuters) &#8211; Hedge funds representing 15.5 percent of shares in Dutch telecoms firm Versatel demanded changes to its supervisory board on Monday, continuing their resistance to a takeover by Sweden&#8217;s Tele2 AB (TEL2b.ST: Quote, Profile, Research). Tele2 [&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":[],"class_list":["post-3649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649","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=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}