Atticus Capital

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Atticus Capital is an American investment company in the legal form of a “ Delaware Limited Partnership” (LP, comparable to a German limited partnership ).

The company was founded in 1995 by the Canadian Timothy R. Barakett. Its headquarters are in New York , with a branch in London . Currently Atticus Capital manages in his hedge fund investment assets of around 15 billion US dollars . Between August 1 and August 10, 2007, the Atticus fund “Atticus European”, which was founded in 2001 and had managed assets of around 9.1 billion US dollars until then (an increase of around 20% within one year equivalent), recorded a net loss of 8.25%. This was the hedge fund's biggest loss of value since its inception. From 2001 to 2006, “Atticus European” achieved an average annual net return of 28.35%, with a volatility of 15.2%.

Timothy R. Barakett is the company's chairman and CEO . David Slager (1991 graduate of the British Haberdashers 'Aske's Boys' School ) is Vice Chairman and Senior Portfolio Manager Europe, as well as Director of Atticus UK. Nathaniel Philip Rothschild (Co-Chairman, son of Lord Jacob Rothschild ; 2005 member of the business group in the Young Global Leaders forum of the World Economic Forum and, inherited from his father, will be one of the richest members of the Rothschild banking dynasty ) and Matthew Edmonds (President).

Participations (selection)

(As of May 2007; the investments are held in various forms and in some cases through subsidiaries)

  • Deutsche Börse : 11.68% of the shares in circulation, making it the largest single shareholder
  • Euronext : just under 14% (15,451,711 shares, 11,069,136 of which are ordinary shares), making it one of the largest individual shareholders
  • New York Stock Exchange : currently around 7.2% (around 11.3 million shares), following the planned merger with Euronext, one of the largest individual shareholders in the future
  • Bombay Stock Exchange : 4%
  • Mastercard : 9% (since August 2007)
  • Sears Holdings Corporation : 6.7% (10,760,157 shares)
  • Freeport-McMoRan : 3%, after the merger with Phelps Dodge approx. 6%
  • Arcelor (currently in merger with Mittal Steel): so far approx. 8.2 million voting shares, corresponds to approx. 1.3% of the total shares; thus one of the largest single shareholders
  • Mittal Steel (currently in merger with Arcelor): previously 0.5%
  • Barclays Bank: at least 1%
  • Shares in numerous other large companies, particularly in the global metal and mining industries

References

  1. ↑ Atticus leads if in event-driven strategies . efinancialnews.com. August 21, 2007. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 1, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.efinancialnews.com
  2. ↑ Atticus lifts UK turnover to £ 6m . efinancialnews.com. August 28, 2007. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 1, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.efinancialnews.com
  3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.finanztreff.de
  4. ^ Daily Mail , April 2, 2007
  5. ^ The Times ( February 5, 2008 memento in the Internet Archive ), March 9, 2007
  6. ↑ Source: www.StreetInsider.com , August 20, 2007
  7. ↑ The Standard ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 12, 2007  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thestandard.com.hk

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