{"id":53839,"date":"2016-08-10T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=53839"},"modified":"2016-08-10T09:00:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T13:00:17","slug":"before-valeant-overhaul-ackman-met-investors-at-brainstorming-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2016\/before-valeant-overhaul-ackman-met-investors-at-brainstorming-event.html","title":{"rendered":"Before Valeant Overhaul, Ackman Met Investors at Brainstorming Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Six weeks before Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc revealed plans to reorganize and pay down debt, similar ideas to improve the drugmaker&#8217;s fortunes were discussed at a private shareholder dinner attended by top investor and board member William Ackman, according to a source who participated. Bank of America hosted the June 29 event, billed as Valeant: a Bull\/Bear dinner, at the Lincoln Ristorante in Manhattan, according to two people who saw the invitation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-valeant-results-investors-idUSKCN10K2MV?il=0\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Six weeks before Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc revealed plans to reorganize and pay down debt, similar ideas to improve the drugmaker&#8217;s fortunes were discussed at a private shareholder dinner attended by top investor and board member William Ackman, according [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53839","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=53839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53840,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53839\/revisions\/53840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}