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● 03.02.10

●● Novell May be Going Private, Hedge Fund Has Cash

Posted in Finance, Microsoft, Novell, SCO at 7:01 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Novell is having a ‘SCO moment’ as takeover seems likely, courtesy of a funding pool whose money could come from anywhere

BIG news came in via reader “dyfet”. Just over a year ago, Canonical’s current COO (who worked for Novell) said that Novell should go private. According to this new report, it might happen shortly.

=> said that Novell should go private | ↺ this new report

Elliott offers to take Novell private for $2 bln[...]This offer price represents a 21 percent premium to Novell’s Tuesday close on Nasdaq.

There will surely be a lot of coverage like this later on. Where do these funds come from? That firm seems somewhat dodgy, just just like those firms that proposed saving SCO (financial rescue of a trial against Linux).

=> ↺ seems somewhat dodgy | those firms that proposed saving SCO

The vulture warsA New York hedge fund is in a court battle with the Republic of Congo over who is robbing the oil-rich but dirtpoor African nation.[...]Although he didn’t mention any names, the President was clearly referring to Kensington International, a Cayman Islands company that owns more than $100 million of Congo’s sovereign debt and is controlled by Elliott Associates, a $6.5 billion New York City hedge fund.

Cayman Islands? Congo? Control by proxy? What is this firm? According to this press release, it describes itself as follows:

=> ↺ this press release

Elliott Associates, L.P. and its sister fund, Elliott International, L.P. have more than $5.2 billion of capital under management as of July 1, 2005. Founded in 1977, Elliott Associates is one of the oldest hedge funds under continuous management. The Elliott funds’ investors include large institutions, high-net-worth individuals and families, and employees of the firm.

So in principle, a company like Microsoft too can lend some money for Elliott Associates to use that money. That’s just a theory. We’ll soon post today’s IRC logs which contain more information. █

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