{"id":61608,"date":"2018-01-02T09:06:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T14:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=61608"},"modified":"2018-01-02T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T14:06:38","slug":"pershing-square-valeant-arrive-at-settlement-split-for-allergan-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2018\/pershing-square-valeant-arrive-at-settlement-split-for-allergan-lawsuit.html","title":{"rendered":"Pershing Square, Valeant Arrive at Settlement Split For Allergan Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Activist investor William Ackman\u2019s Pershing Square PHS.AS and Valeant Pharmaceuticals (VRX.TO) on Friday decided to pay $290 million to settle a lawsuit that accused them of insider trading before bidding for Allergan Plc (AGN.N) in 2014. Pershing Square said it decided to raise its share of the settlement to 66.8 percent, or $193.75 million, in a bid to quickly wind up the litigation, which it claimed had \u201cno merit\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-pershing-sq-hldg-valeant-pharm-in\/pershing-square-valeant-arrive-at-settlement-split-for-allergan-lawsuit-idUSKBN1EN1LR\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Activist investor William Ackman\u2019s Pershing Square PHS.AS and Valeant Pharmaceuticals (VRX.TO) on Friday decided to pay $290 million to settle a lawsuit that accused them of insider trading before bidding for Allergan Plc (AGN.N) in 2014. Pershing Square said [&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-61608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61608","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=61608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61609,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61608\/revisions\/61609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}