{"id":61225,"date":"2017-12-06T08:58:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T13:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=61225"},"modified":"2017-12-06T08:58:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T13:58:06","slug":"how-ackman-hopes-to-beat-insider-trading-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2017\/how-ackman-hopes-to-beat-insider-trading-lawsuit.html","title":{"rendered":"How Ackman Hopes to Beat Insider-Trading Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Billionaire investor Bill Ackman\u2019s audacious partnership with Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. to make a hostile bid for drug company Allergan Inc. in 2014 brought him a windfall of more than $2 billion even though it failed. It also led to a lawsuit by Allergan shareholders accusing Ackman of illegal insider trading. In a last-ditch bid to avoid a trial, Ackman plans to argue to a federal judge on Dec. 8 that no rules were broken and the suit should be tossed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-12-06\/how-ackman-hopes-to-beat-insider-trading-lawsuit-quicktake-q-a\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Billionaire investor Bill Ackman\u2019s audacious partnership with Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. to make a hostile bid for drug company Allergan Inc. in 2014 brought him a windfall of more than $2 billion even though it failed. It also led [&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-61225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61225","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=61225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61226,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61225\/revisions\/61226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}