{"id":4522,"date":"2006-06-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"autostrade-abertis-merger-may-face-oposition-by-group-of-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2006\/autostrade-abertis-merger-may-face-oposition-by-group-of-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Autostrade-Abertis merger may face oposition by group of hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <span class=\"mainarttxt\">MILAN (AFX) &#8211; A group of hedge funds, including Children&#8217;s Investment Fund, are ready to oppose Autostrade SpA&#8217;s current plans to merge with Abertis Infraestructuras SA to  obtain better terms for minorities, the daily Il Sole 24 Ore said without giving a source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"mainarttxt\">According to the newspaper, the funds already control 10 pct of Autostrade and aim at rapidly gaining more support to boost the stake to 20 pct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"mainarttxt\">Because Autostrade is owed at 50.2 pct by Schemaventotto, a holding company controlled by the Benetton family pushing for the merger, the funds&#8217; chances of blocking the  merger are remote, but they could seek to obtain improved conditions, the daily said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/afx\/2006\/06\/01\/afx2785819.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN (AFX) &#8211; A group of hedge funds, including Children&#8217;s Investment Fund, are ready to oppose Autostrade SpA&#8217;s current plans to merge with Abertis Infraestructuras SA to obtain better terms for minorities, the daily Il Sole 24 Ore said without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}