{"id":45485,"date":"2014-12-16T07:37:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T12:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=45485"},"modified":"2014-12-16T07:37:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T12:37:56","slug":"big-hedge-funds-win-again-on-petsmart-riverbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2014\/big-hedge-funds-win-again-on-petsmart-riverbed.html","title":{"rendered":"Big hedge funds win again on PetSmart, Riverbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC &#8211; On Sunday, pet supply retailer PetSmart agreed to the largest leveraged buyout of the year at $8.7 billion. Hedge fund firm JANA Partners had been pushing for a sale and, with a 9.9 percent stake in the company, appears to be in line for a pay day of about $230 million.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, enterprise tech company Riverbed Technology said it would sell itself to private equity firm Thoma Bravo for $21 a share. Hedge fund manager Elliott Associates, who also agitated for a sale, owns 9.6 percent of the company, meaning it will likely net about $102 million on the transaction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/102269978\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC &#8211; On Sunday, pet supply retailer PetSmart agreed to the largest leveraged buyout of the year at $8.7 billion. Hedge fund firm JANA Partners had been pushing for a sale and, with a 9.9 percent stake in the company, [&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-45485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45485","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=45485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45486,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45485\/revisions\/45486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}