Tom Hudson’s Pirate Capital continues to blaze ahead with the best proxy fight innovation since the poison pill was invented—proxy swag! Today they’re offering Aquilla, Inc. shareholders pins featuring the face of Aquila chief executive Rick Green. Using a specially designed website called Bad Acquila Deal The Pirates have been leveling cannon fire against Aquila’s plan to sell itself to Great Plains Energy, arrrrhg-uing (sorry) that the sale price is too low and the process flawed.
The Rick Green Button [Bad Aquilla Deal]
Earlier on DealBreaker:
Pirates Get Webby [4.5.07]
A Very Special Opportunity [4.5.07]
Free Gift With Purchase [4.5.07]
The Very Special Opportunity Is Over [4.9.07]
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I got my t-shirt yesterday
Maybe mine will come in the mail today. Or maybe not. Pondering buying 1 Aquila share to get the button. Wait! High finance time: will someone loan me a share for a dime? Then I get the button. A quarter? A penny? Taking bids now.
Mine came last Saturday,
it should be unveiled to the public sometime this saturday morning when i walk to the end of my driveway to get the paper
Is this seriously the best idea these hacks could come up with to make money? I’m putting the over/under on this funds existence at 2 years.
J,
You are a cretin.
Sincerely,
BSD
You’re right. I think it should be 1.5 years. Too bad none of those analysts could get a job with a real HF.
Yeah…Hudson might go off an have an affair at any moment now!
J, Pirate has def become a paradoy of itself. Still, I take the over, but barely.
Ahhh .. he beat you to it. He is having an affair already and apparently, once again, she works at Pirate….
remember me? yes, I made the mistake of falling in love with this moron while I was at Goldman. I had a great job and a promising career and I messed it all up and then I helped hin get a job with Lasry’s firm. Tom screwed that up, we went and started Pirate together and we put together a great team. Those guys were all so great. I really miss them all. I had our kid and then I got sick and he dumped me …
Now he is at it again …although now it is not just his cash and future he is gambling with. It is mine and our son’s and all you investors. He spends more time trying to woo this girl than he does working on the fund…. You think he would have and learned!! I am sure investors are thrilled with all the analysts leaving. Now there is no one to actually do work. What a great role model for our kid this bozo os turning out to be…
Someone has been posting anti-Tom Hudson crap all over the internet pretending to be me and friends wonder when I lost my knack for discretion and for grammar? IT IS NOT ME, never has been, never will be. If I find out who you are I will declare war.
Gabrielle Katz has never blogged about Tom Hudson.
And you are obviously an idiot.
is peter d. an analyst still at pirate or did tom h lose another guy. it won’t be long before pirate is done, investors beware!!!!
nice try TOM H, trying to cover as your ex wife. the only war you will ever win is fighting your way out of a paperbag and that’s questionable? Another threat from a very meek individual.
“STOP BLOGGING AS ME”
Funny…I worked at Pirate. If that’s not Gabe Katz, the poster sure knows an AWFUL LOT OF DETAIL about what went on there. If it’s not Gabe Katz, she must love spilling her beans while she’s drunk to a meticulous note-taking friend.
Actually, to be fair, everyone who worked at the firm or knew Tom Hudson knew all of this drama with Tom and Isa. She’s been at the firm and living with him in his house since Gabe moved out last year – not exactly top-secret news! and tom had the same trail of enemies at merrill and goldman and amroc before he opened pirate, guy’s a douche