{"id":3719,"date":"2005-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-challenges-royal-dutch-shell-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2005\/hedge-fund-challenges-royal-dutch-shell-in-court.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund challenges Royal Dutch Shell in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; A British hedge fund is challenging in court the procedure chosen by oil giant Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/stocks\/overview.aspx?symbol=RDSa.L\">Quote<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/stocks\/CompanyProfile.aspx?symbol=RDSa.L\">Profile<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/stocks\/ResearchReports.aspx?symbol=RDSa.L\">Research<\/a>) to acquire theremaining 1.5 percent of shares in its former Dutch parent as part of its unification.<\/p>\n<p>  The Amsterdam corporate court said on Monday it will hold a hearing on Tuesday on claims filed by Trafalgar Catalyst Fund and Trafalgar Volatility Fund, which own 900,000 shares or 0.3 percent of  the remaining Royal Dutch minority stock.<\/p>\n<p>  In July, the world&#8217;s third-biggest oil company declared unconditional the merger of its separately listed parents, Royal Dutch and UK-based Shell Transport &amp; Trading Plc after more than 90  percent of Royal Dutch shareholders tendered their shares.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/investing\/financeArticle.aspx?type=mergersNews&amp;storyID=2005-12-12T130842Z_01_L12761943_RTRIDST_0_ENERGY-ROYALDUTCH.XML\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; A British hedge fund is challenging in court the procedure chosen by oil giant Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L: Quote,Profile, Research) to acquire theremaining 1.5 percent of shares in its former Dutch parent as part of its unification. The [&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-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","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=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}