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- From: rlcarr@animato.network23.com (Rich Carreiro)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: street name vs delivery
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <rlcarr.09cx@animato.network23.com>
- References: <22DEC199211174469@csa2.lbl.gov> <20366@ksr.com> <rlcarr.09ab@animato.network23.com> <20427@ksr.com>
- X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith
- Date: 27 Dec 92 20:56:26 EST
- Organization: The Other Side of Life
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- In article <20427@ksr.com> zdenek@ksr.com (Zdenek Radouch) writes:
- > I want to take over the XYZ Corp. XYZ is public and is controlled by
- > an entity holding 55% of all shares. I go and buy the remaining 45%
- > of all shares. I hold it in a street name so that it can be shorted.
- > I subsequently short one third of my shares against the box and have
- > my partner buy it. Now I own 45% of XYZ, and my partner owns 15% of XYZ.
- > Together we own 60% of XYZ, the controlling entity holds only 55%
- > so we can take over XYZ any time we want!
-
- You own 45% of XYZ. The Entity owns 55%. You say you want to short
- 1/3 of your holdings against the box. Unless the Entity is holding
- its shares in street name, you can't short XYZ since there are no shares
- to borrow in order to short. And even if Entity did have shares in street
- name (so that your broker could borrow them for you to short), Entity could
- pull all its holdings out of its margin account at any time, forcing its broker
- to call the shares in from your broker, who would immediately buy in your short
- position and return the shares to Entity's broker who returns them to Entity.
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