Extreme Value Hedging: How Activist Hedge Fund Managers Are Taking on the World

Acknowledgments

There are numerous people I would like to thank who helped make this book a reality. Lots of people took time out of their busy schedules to patiently go over key statistics, facts, and excerpts. Thank you to Scott Esser, chief operating officer at Hedge Fund Research Inc. for all your statistics and research on the activist fund industry. Thank you to Allan Kortan, David Sirignano, David Brown, Gary Lutin, Pat McGurn, Lars Förberg, Jeffrey M. Solomon, Lawrence “Larry” J. Goldstein, Barry Cronin, Paul Lapides, Ross Hendin, and Mark Schwarz for reading over my material and giving me your valuable feedback.

This book could never have been written without the support of my editor, Pamela van Giessen at John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Thanks also to Jennifer MacDonald, Stacey Fischkelta, and Susan Cooper, who aided in the production and copyediting of this book.

I would never have completed this book without the help and assistance of Ralph Whitworth, Richard Ferlauto, Charles Elson, Lucian Bebchuk, Steven Kaplan, Nell Minow, Phillip Goldstein, Robert Chapman, Seymour Holtzman, James Mitarotonda, Christopher Young,, Guy Wyser-Pratte, Stanley Gold, Manny Pearlman, Sergei Ambartsumov, Richard Lashley, Jeffrey Ubben, Ben Bornstein, Dorian Foyil, Evan D. Flaschen, Arnaud Ajdler, Eric Rosenfeld, Peter Puccetti, James Leech, Brian Gibson, Lawrence Seidman, Herbert Denton, Bill Mackenzie, John Olson, Marc Weingarten, George Mazin, Steven Howard, Howard Godnick, Terrance O'Malley, ...