{"id":48842,"date":"2015-06-19T09:01:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T13:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=48842"},"modified":"2015-06-19T09:01:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T13:01:59","slug":"us-hedge-fund-steps-up-campaign-to-block-8-billion-samsung-asset-shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2015\/us-hedge-fund-steps-up-campaign-to-block-8-billion-samsung-asset-shake-up.html","title":{"rendered":"US Hedge Fund Steps Up Campaign To Block $8-Billion Samsung Asset Shake-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) U.S. hedge fund Elliott ramped up a campaign to block a proposed $8 billion merger of two Samsung Group firms on Thursday, laying out its case online a day before a court hearing on a deal seen key to a leadership succession in the family-run conglomerate.<\/p>\n<p>Escalating what is already a rare case of shareholder activism in South Korea, the fund put online a 27-page paper detailing why shareholders in construction firm Samsung C&#038;T Corp should reject the all-stock takeover offer from sister company Cheil Industries Inc.<\/p>\n<p>To See this Story: www. Reuters.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) U.S. hedge fund Elliott ramped up a campaign to block a proposed $8 billion merger of two Samsung Group firms on Thursday, laying out its case online a day before a court hearing on a deal seen key to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48842","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48843,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48842\/revisions\/48843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}