{"id":43149,"date":"2014-07-21T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=43149"},"modified":"2014-07-21T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T12:27:00","slug":"samlyn-capital-holds-150-million-stake-in-allergan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2014\/samlyn-capital-holds-150-million-stake-in-allergan.html","title":{"rendered":"Samlyn Capital Holds $150 Million Stake in Allergan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Samlyn Capital LLC, a hedge fund founded by a veteran of SAC Capital Advisors LP, has built a $150 million stake in Allergan Inc. AGN +0.95% and is weighing whether to support Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. VRX.T +0.06% &#8216;s hostile bid for the maker of Botox.<\/p>\n<p>Samlyn&#8217;s stake was detailed in the hedge fund&#8217;s confidential investor documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal and confirmed by people familiar with the firm. Allergan&#8217;s current market capitalization is about $50 billion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/hedge-fund-samlyn-capital-holds-150m-stake-in-allergan-1405698274\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Samlyn Capital LLC, a hedge fund founded by a veteran of SAC Capital Advisors LP, has built a $150 million stake in Allergan Inc. AGN +0.95% and is weighing whether to support Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. VRX.T +0.06% [&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-43149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43149","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=43149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43150,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43149\/revisions\/43150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}