{"id":47042,"date":"2015-03-20T08:41:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T12:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=47042"},"modified":"2015-03-20T08:41:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T12:41:49","slug":"hedge-funds-hot-appraisal-strategy-for-deals-may-become-a-lot-less-appealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2015\/hedge-funds-hot-appraisal-strategy-for-deals-may-become-a-lot-less-appealing.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds hot &#8216;appraisal&#8217; strategy for deals may become a lot less appealing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; An increasingly popular legal strategy that allows hedge funds to make potentially lucrative bets on takeover deals, and get a return even if they lose, may be about to become much less attractive.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy usually involves buying stock in a Delaware-incorporated company that is being acquired and then filing a claim that gets a judge to determine the fair price for the shares in a process known as appraisal. The fund will argue in court that the deal value was unfairly low and it should be paid a higher price.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/03\/19\/us-m-a-law-appraisals-insight-idUSKBN0MF0DZ20150319\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Artice<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; An increasingly popular legal strategy that allows hedge funds to make potentially lucrative bets on takeover deals, and get a return even if they lose, may be about to become much less attractive. The strategy usually involves buying [&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-47042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47042","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=47042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47044,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47042\/revisions\/47044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}