Hedge Fund Giant Accuses Riverbed Of Misleading Investors

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Mark Melin
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Paul Singer’s Elliott Management has turned up the heat with Riverbed Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:RVBD), accusing the technology firm of misleading its investors. Riverbed management and board have “crossed a line to actively misleading shareholders” “By publicly denying the buyer interest that has been expressed to the Company and by comparing the value of Elliott’s bid to a false reality, Riverbed’s management and board have crossed a line from failing shareholders to actively misleading them as well,” Jesse Cohn, portfolio manager at Elliott, said in a regulatory filing. Numerous parties are said to have contacted the Company to express interest in…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.