{"id":8863,"date":"2008-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"harbinger-hedge-may-be-looking-to-rev-up-leap-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2008\/harbinger-hedge-may-be-looking-to-rev-up-leap-management.html","title":{"rendered":"Harbinger Hedge May Be Looking to Rev Up Leap Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Activist hedge fund Harbinger Capital might be looking to make some strategic changes to another management team.&nbsp; They are expected to hold talks with Leap Wireless International, in which they hold a substantial 14.8 percent stake or just over 10 million shares.&nbsp; The hedge fund is looking to discuss both short-term and long-term management solutions while figuring out the best way to maximize shareholder returns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&ldquo;We respect and welcome the views and opinions of all Leap stockholders, said Leap spokesman Greg Lund while avoiding any specifics.&nbsp; &ldquo;We look forward to continuing the open and productive dialogue we&rsquo;ve had and expect to have with all of our stockholders.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Harbinger is no stranger for pushing for internal change within companies in which they invest.&nbsp; By acquiring board seats, the hedge fund gets a say in major decisions while giving them more control over the company.&nbsp; Harbinger won three seats on the board of Media General and two seats on the board of the New York Times after a nasty near proxy battle.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Shares of Leap closed at $27.90 yesterday and have fallen over 60 percent in the course of a year.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Scuderi<br \/>Senior Editor for HedgeCo.Net<br \/>Email: julie@hedgeco.net<\/p>\n<p>HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and  accredited investors only. Membership on <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/\/\">www.hedgeco.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS  for Hedge Funds!<br \/>Be sure to check out our sister sites. <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundlounge.com\/\">www.hedgefundlounge.com<\/a>,  <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundtools.com\/\">www.hedgefundtools.com<\/a>, and <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundemployment.com\/\">www.hedgefundemployment.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; Activist hedge fund Harbinger Capital might be looking to make some strategic changes to another management team.&nbsp; They are expected to hold talks with Leap Wireless International, in which they hold a substantial 14.8 percent stake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[769,2232,3199,303,221,110,2987,1072,452,107,1976,1089],"class_list":["post-8863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news","tag-ashe","tag-assurances","tag-bancassurer","tag-brokerages","tag-dan-hesse","tag-due-diligence-service","tag-incomes","tag-lead-investor","tag-market-share","tag-mistrust","tag-oil-and-gas-company","tag-wig-maker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}