{"id":60618,"date":"2017-10-27T08:36:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T12:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=60618"},"modified":"2017-10-27T08:36:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T12:36:35","slug":"activist-investors-torpedo-clariant-huntsman-20-billion-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2017\/activist-investors-torpedo-clariant-huntsman-20-billion-merger.html","title":{"rendered":"Activist Investors Torpedo Clariant, Huntsman $20 Billion Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) White Tale, the investment vehicle of hedge fund manager Keith Meister and New York City-based fund 40 North, had increased its Clariant stake to more than 20 percent, Reuters reported on Thursday ahead of the announcement of the tie-up being dropped. White Tale\u2019s rising stake, coupled with other Clariant shareholders who came out against the deal, left the Swiss company doubtful of mustering the two-thirds support necessary for the merger to go through.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-clariant-huntsman-statement\/activist-investors-scupper-20-billion-clariant-huntsman-merger-idUSKBN1CW0FX\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) White Tale, the investment vehicle of hedge fund manager Keith Meister and New York City-based fund 40 North, had increased its Clariant stake to more than 20 percent, Reuters reported on Thursday ahead of the announcement of the tie-up [&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-60618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60618","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=60618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60619,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60618\/revisions\/60619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}