Fir Tree and Avenue together own 40 percent of Midstates.
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And for Fir Tree Partners, progress has been slow but steady.
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Stern is a managing director and partner at Fir Tree Partners.
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In New York, we got a cut-down fir tree through.
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Another shareholder, Fir Tree Partners, is also opposing the Bonanza Creek deal.
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Fir Tree is among the biggest shareholders in both Midstates and SandRidge.
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AND THIS WAS WRITTEN IN A FIR TREE ARTICLE, FIR TREE PARTNERS WHO I DON'T KNOW, NEVER MET, ALSO OWN A FAIR PART OF THIS COMPANY AND THEY ARE PRETTY ENRAGED BY IT JUDGING BY THE ARTICLE THEY WRONG.
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Fir Tree also said SandRidge was paying an "unjustified premium" for Bonanza Creek.
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Fir Tree also joined Q Investments in September in calling for Jones Energy JONE.
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A representative for Fir Tree Partners did not respond to a request for comment.
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SandRidge, Fir Tree and Avenue Capital did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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"There is a wave of change in Japan," Fir Tree partner Aaron Stern told CNBC.
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Fir Tree owns about 6% of JR Kyushu according to the fund's recent press releases.
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Fir Tree Partners said the proposed deal would "drain SandRidge of its entire cash balance".
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Some of the hedge funds include Muirfield Value Partners LP, Fir Tree Value and BlueMountain.
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We chopped down and knocked over a large fir tree in the clearing near the path.
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Fir Tree, which manages around $9.4 billion, is the most consistent presence in these reorganized energy companies.
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Fir Tree also said it planned to make shareholder proposals at the company's upcoming annual general meeting.
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She pointed to the ground, where a pile of dark feathers lay lumped beneath a fir tree.
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Fir Tree, which owns about 7.2 percent of Halcon, in October called for a sale of the company.
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Beneficiaries would include municipal depositors and bondholders like Avenue Capital Management, Brigade Capital Management, and Fir Tree Partners.
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But the decorated fir tree behind her, just a week and some change after summer ended, took the spotlight.
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In another, a Douglas fir tree—the second largest in Canada, in fact—stands alone in a clear-cut forest.
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Activist investor Fir Tree Partners this month called for Halcon to appoint independent board directors, cut costs and sell itself.
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Other shareholders with substantial stakes in SandRidge including Fir Tree Partners and Susquehanna Advisors have also come out against the purchase.
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Fir Tree owns about 8 percent of SandRidge and has said the company was paying an "unjustified premium" for Bonanza Creek.
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" He seconded the opinion of Fir Tree Partners as saying "the proposed acquisition of Bonanza makes no economic or strategic sense.
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Kurt, minus his clothes, leaps out of the window and into a fir tree—a dark, primitive, and very Germanic gag.
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Icahn said that while he has not spoken with Fir Tree, he agreed with the hedge fund's reasons for opposing the deal.
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Fir Tree, along with Icahn, had criticized SandRidge's management and Chief Executive James Bennett for what they called years of poor decisions.
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And yet, I still know the words to most Christmas carols and can recognize a Douglas fir tree when I see one.
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Fir Tree also joined Q Investments in September in calling for Jones Energy to change course, including the possible sale of the company.
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Guggenheim Partners Investment Management and Fir Tree Partners, both of which opposed the Bonanza Creek deal, did not respond to requests for comment.
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The deal to buy FTP Power LLC, popularly known as sPower, from hedge fund Fir Tree Partners also includes $724 million in debt.
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At one edge of the yard is a built-in bench curved around a gas fire pit, all shaded by a large fir tree.
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WAPNER: YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY LARGE HOLDER THAT APPEARS TO BE AGAINST THE DEAL AS WELL, SUSQUEHANNA ADVISORS, CANNELL CAPITAL, YOU MENTIONED FIR TREE PARTNERS.
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Private investment firm Fir Tree Partners, which owns about 8.3 percent, had said the purchase would drain all of the oil and gas producer's cash.
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This year's winning Douglas fir tree is around 23 feet tall and was grown by Larry and Joanne Snyder at Mahantongo Valley Farms in Pennsylvania.
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The palace also shared a whimsical photo of a "magical 20-foot-high Nordmann Fir tree on display in St. George's Hall" in Windsor Castle.
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For Fir Tree, founded in 14.53 by Jeff Tannenbaum, its campaign at JR Kyushu has been a multiyear battle centering on the company's use of cash.
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A 20-ft Nordmann Fir tree from Windsor Great Park, Prince Philip's go-to spot for carriage driving, stands tall at the end of the hall.
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The 12-foot Pre-lit Dunhill Fir Tree by National Tree is the perfect artificial tree for people with high ceilings who want to impress guests.
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The centerpiece of the mini-retrospective will be a new work called "Matrice," a nearly-100-foot-long cross-sectioned fir tree partially cast in bronze.
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The Nordmann fir tree was grown in Windsor Great Park, a 5,000-acre park that used to be a private hunting ground for the royal family.
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Deer Finance, a small Manhattan firm with a board member who works for the hedge fund Fir Tree Partners, began focusing on such loans last year.
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On Friday, Kyushu Railway Co's shares slumped 4.5% after shareholder proposals made by New York-based Fir Tree Partners and supported by other firms were rejected.
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Activist Fir Tree Partners held to that rule last year, though its energy investments - including Williams - still helped it rack up $259 million in paper losses, Symmetric.
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The deal also has the support of Fir Tree Partners a shareholder in both companies that had opposed SandRidge's pursuit of Bonanza Creek and Avenue Capital Group.
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The decorating committee also made a misstep when it replaced the traditional Douglas fir tree with a futuristic version made of lights and wires, but no greenery.
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Institutions including Icahn's hedge fund hold 88 percent of the company's stock, according to Thomson Reuters data, including Fir Tree Partners, Paulson & Co, Guggenheim Capital and Apollo Capital.
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He was accompanied this time by a small, dry fir tree, ostensibly so the crowd would have something to look at aside from just him and a spotlight.
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Both Fredman and Walker join from Fir Tree, a New York-based private investment firm, where they were chief investment officer and chairman of the risk committee, respectively.
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The Ad Hoc Group includes hedge funds Avenue Capital Management, Brigade Capital Management, Claren Road Asset Management, Fir Tree Partners, Fore Research & Management and Solus Alternative Asset Management.
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But the activist investor Fir Tree Partners, which owns more than 8 percent of SandRidge, on Monday said it opposed the deal, saying the price is too high.
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Astronauts may not be able to pick their own real fir tree, but for years they've been bringing up fake ones and adorning them with tinsel and decorations.
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Several other SandRidge holders including Fir Tree Partners, which holds an about 8.3 percent stake, and Susquehanna Advisors Group with about 4 percent, have come out against the purchase.
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The stock market values its land at less than $5,000 an acre, compared with peers whose land is valued above $20,000 an acre, Fir Tree said in a Feb.
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Kyushu Railway soared 3.7% after it announced its first ever share buyback of up to 10 billion yen, after receiving proposals from New York-based investment firm, Fir Tree Partners.
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They asked if the team could create a sand-sculpted, 35-foot-tall "fir tree" – like the real one they had on display – and the sculptors fully embraced the challenge.
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And while Fir Tree may not necessarily oppose the company's move to invest, more disclosure about how the company plans to generate returns on its real estate holdings may be helpful.
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YOU KNOW, I KNOW A LOT OF FUNDS AND HEDGE FUNDS AND WHATEVER, BUT I JUST DON'T HAPPEN TO KNOW OR HAVE SPOKEN TO FIR TREE OR TO ANY OF THOSE.
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But in Wernigerode this year, residents rallied around a 49-foot-tall fir tree that had been slated to be felled for this year's Christmas market in the medieval town center.
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Oklahoma-based Midstates Petroleum, backed by activist shareholder Fir Tree Partners, had offered to buy SandRidge last month, after activist shareholder Carl Icahn scuppered SandRidge's plans to buy Bonanza Creek Energy.
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"We believe this proposed acquisition represents a complete about face by (SandRidge's) management on its post-bankruptcy strategy," Fir Tree Partners, which owns about 8.3 percent of SandRidge, said in a statement.
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The exits come just days after smaller rival Midstates Petroleum Co offered to buy SandRidge in an all-stock deal that had been supported by some smaller shareholders, including Fir Tree Partners.
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While SandRidge shareholders will hold 60 percent of the combined company, according to the proposal, Midstates' CEO David Sambrooks will be in charge — a move that may pacify Icahn and Fir Tree.
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Among Delta Lloyd's top 10 investors, people familiar with the voting positions said Fir Tree Partners, Fubon FinancialHolding Co., Greenlight Capital, Highfields Capital ManagementLP and investor John de Mol all oppose the raise.
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On Monday, it said that if Halcon does not cut expenses and appoint new board members, Fir Tree may run a proxy contest at the next annual general meeting to replace its entire board.
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Among Delta Lloyd's top 10 investors, people familiar with the voting positions said Fir Tree Partners, Fubon Financial Holding Co., Greenlight Capital, Highfields Capital Management LP and investor John de Mol all oppose the raise.
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"The unfortunate reality for Halcon is that it is an over-levered and sub-scale operator that cannot organically grow out of its problems in the current (or most any) commodity environment," Fir Tree said.
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Icahn's letter comes a week after he disclosed a 13.5 percent stake in SandRidge and joined other major shareholder Fir Tree Partners in opposing a move that they said would drain all of the company's cash.
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Fir Tree, which has held a stake in the railway operator, better known as JR Kyushu, since its 2016 listing, said in December it had increased its holding to 5.1 percent, calling the firm "significantly undervalued".
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"We are concerned by the lack of a concrete, significant share repurchase program, which would have corrected the inefficient capital structure and suboptimal return on equity," Aaron Stern, managing director at Fir Tree, said in a statement.
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"I feel comfortable here but of course not like at home," said 20-year-old Mayar Ballish who served falafel sandwiches from a wooden hut decorated with festive fir tree garlands, red bows and white fairy lights.
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The ptarmigan had been smoked over dried smoldering sheep dung, which is pretty much the only thing you can use for smoking in this relatively treeless landscape, where a 15-foot fir tree towers like a sequoia.
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Loeb is also arriving anew amid a fresh wave of activism in Japan where investors like ValueAct, King Street Capital Management and Fir Tree Partners have pushed for change at Olympus Corp, Toshiba Corp and Kyushu Railway Company.
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One nature-themed box wrapped in fir-tree patterned craft paper is completed with a pair of green, gold-glitter-dipped feathers and what appears to be an acorn (or perhaps a little bell) tied into the simple string.
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Many of my family's holiday traditions have changed as I've neared adulthood: we phased out the fir tree a few years ago, dinner is now takeout, the presents have shrunk in size but grown in meaning, and so on.
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The 39-year-old "Jurassic World" star took to Instagram on Friday to share a special story about a Douglas fir tree on his farm that he and his 5-year-old son cut down after it was struck by lightning.
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Vice Chancellor Joseph Slights of the Court of Chancery found that the fair value of Jarden stock was $48.31 when it was acquired by Newell, well below the $71.35 sought by funds affiliated with Fir Tree Partners and Verition Fund Management.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S.-based investment firm Fir Tree Partners said on Friday it has raised its stake in Japan's Kyushu Railway Co to 6.1 percent and urged the railway operator to boost its share price through buybacks and add outside directors.
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GDB, which acts as a liquidity source for the island's public entities, is negotiating with hedge funds including Fir Tree, Solus and Claren Road in hopes of staving off a default that could threaten services and operations on the island.
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Ernst watched as Yeltsin sat in front of a tinsel-covered fir tree in a reception hall and held forth on the opportunities of the New Year, which included, in the spring, a Presidential election that would determine his successor.
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But for Fir Tree, which has been a shareholder in JR Kyushu since its IPO, a meager 6% climb in the stock over the last few years and a general lack of transparency has been an impetus for a more activist approach.
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Hedge funds, such as Fir Tree Partners and Strategic Value Partners, bought debt of many U.S. energy firms for pennies on the dollar as oil tumbled more than 70 percent in late 2014 and 2015 and later swapped it for shares in bankruptcy proceedings.
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Fir Tree also took issue with CEO Wilson's compensation package, which it said was valued at $24 million when the company emerged from bankruptcy in 2016 and roughly $7 million in 2017, a year in which its stock fell by more than 50 percent.
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A bondholder group that includes hedge funds Brigade, Claren Road and Fir Tree updated an existing lawsuit against the bank and Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla late Friday, saying new amendments to a fiscal emergency law passed in April would protect local creditors over non-resident bondholders.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Activist investor Fir Tree Partners on Monday called on oil producer Halcon Resources Corp to appoint two independent directors to its board, threatening a proxy fight at the next shareholder meeting if it fails to do so or fails to put itself up for sale.
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Although Halcon's assets are in the Permian Basin, the largest and fastest growing oilfield in the United States, Wall Street values its land at less than $5,000 an acre, compared with peers whose land is valued above $20,000 an acre, Fir Tree said in its letter.
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After the ceremony by the Viking burial mound concluded — with offerings beneath a fir tree of carrots, eggs, flowers, grapes and the final sloshes of leftover beer and mead — Mr. Sonevang, the Nordic Asa Community spokesman, described his organization's goal as promoting Nordic heritage and tradition.
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Fir Tree, in a letter to the Halcon board of directors, accused Halcon of "excessive" spending, pointing to executive compensation that outpaced its peers and private plane use by Chief Executive Officer Floyd Wilson, which it said was on track in the third quarter to top $1 million in 2018.
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Fir Tree Partners, Candlewood Investment Group and Inglesea Capital LLC do not have standing to press for uncollected rent they estimate to be worth at least $289 million, the board argued in court papers filed on Saturday that highlight the ongoing skirmishing between Puerto Rico, its agencies and their capital markets creditors.
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It also did not say what the nationalities of the four South Asian migrants were and why they had wanted to enter the EU.Footage posted on social media, reported by Agence France-Presse and the BBC, appeared to show the men being arrested in a fir-tree forest with their hands up.
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Fir Tree Capital Management LP and York Capital Management Global Advisors LLC in a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston said shareholders are in need of "immediate representation" because Gastar filed for Chapter 11 protection on Wednesday in order to turn ownership over to Ares Management LP. To read the full story on Westlaw Practitioner Insights, click here: bit.ly/2JwnMQA
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