manhattan-u-s-attorneys-top-deputy-to-join-hedge-fund-elliott-
idUSL1N0Z423T20150618.
It was known for its: Sheelah Kolhatkar, “Paul Singer, Doomsday Investor,” The
New Yorker, August 20, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/
08/27/paul-singer-doomsday-investor.
“Vote AGAINST the transaction”: “Samsung C&T (KNX:000830): proposed
merger with Cheil Industries (KNX:028260),” ISS Special Situations
Research, July 3, 2015, https://www.issgovernance.com/file/publications/
samsung_ct__merger_with_cheil_industries.pdf.
On June 3 Elliott bought: Se Young Lee and Joyce Lee, “U.S. Fund Elliott
Challenges Samsung Group Restructuring Move,” Reuters, June 3, 2015,
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cheil-industries-m-a-samsung-c-t/u-s-fund-
elliott-challenges-samsung-group-restructuring-move-
idUSKBN0OJ34C20150604.
Jay Lee was having breakfast: Adam Lashinsky, “Can Samsung’s New Leader
Dethrone Apple?” Fortune, July 27, 2015, http://fortune.com/2015/07/27/
samsung-jay-lee/.
On June 9 Elliott filed: “Chronology of Samsung C&T’s Merger with Cheil
Industries,” Yonhap News Agency, July 17, 2015, https://en.yna.co.kr/view/
AEN20150715010200320.
sold all of them for $608 million: “Samsung C&T Says to Sell 9 Mln Treasury
Shares to KCC Corp,” Reuters, June 10, 2015, https://www.reuters.com/
article/samsung-ct-kcc-idUSL3N0YW3H020150610.
“The move is necessary”: Kang Yoon-seung, “Elliott Seeks to Block Samsung
C&T’s Share Sale,” Yonhap News Agency, June 11, 2015,
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20150611002651320?input=rss. Elliott
published its public statements and presentations for shareholders and media,
in English and Korean, at http://www.fairdealforsct.com/.
The use of treasury shares: Kanga Kong, “Korea Inc. Ready to Kill Major Reforms
No Matter Who Wins Vote,” Bloomberg, April 27, 2016,
https://www.bloombergquint.com/markets/korea-inc-ready-to-kill-major-
reforms-no-matter-who-wins-vote.
“deeply alarming”: Elliott Management,“Elliott’s Perspectives on Samsung C&T and
the Proposed Takeover by Cheil Industries,” June 2015, p. 6.,
http://www.fairdealforsct.com/present/.
The next, day, Elliott filed: Se Young Lee, “Hedge Fund, Samsung Group Locked in
Fight over $8 Bln Merge,” Reuters, June 11, 2015, https://www.reuters.com/
article/samsung-ct-kcc-elliott/update-1-hedge-fund-makes-fresh-legal-
challenge-to-samsung-group-deal-idUSL3N0YX07120150611.
On July 1 a South Korean court: Choe Sang-hun, “Court Rejects Investor’s Move to
Disrupt Samsung Merger,” The New York Times, July 1, 2015,