{"id":68349,"date":"2019-03-10T01:57:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T06:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=68349"},"modified":"2019-03-12T23:24:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T03:24:28","slug":"starboard-to-vote-against-bristol-celgene-deal-suggests-a-sale-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2019\/starboard-to-vote-against-bristol-celgene-deal-suggests-a-sale-instead.html","title":{"rendered":"Starboard to Vote Against Bristol-Celgene Deal, Suggests a Sale Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Activist investor Starboard Value said it will vote against the record pharmaceutical merger of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Celgene Corp., launching a shareholder campaign that could gather dissidents who want to block the deal. Calling the takeover \u201cpoorly conceived and ill advised,\u201d the hedge fund run by investor Jeff Smith said it will vote against the takeover, and that Bristol-Myers should either seek a buyer or remain independent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-02-28\/starboard-to-vote-against-bristol-celgene-deal-suggests-sale?srnd=deals\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Activist investor Starboard Value said it will vote against the record pharmaceutical merger of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Celgene Corp., launching a shareholder campaign that could gather dissidents who want to block the deal. Calling the takeover \u201cpoorly conceived [&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-68349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68349","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=68349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68350,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68349\/revisions\/68350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}