Acknowledgments

There are numerous people I would like to thank who helped make this book a reality. Lots of people took time out of their busy schedules to patiently go over key statistics, facts, and excerpts. Thank you to Scott Esser, chief operating officer at Hedge Fund Research Inc. for all your statistics and research on the activist fund industry. Thank you to Allan Kortan, David Sirignano, David Brown, Gary Lutin, Pat McGurn, Lars Förberg, Jeffrey M. Solomon, Lawrence “Larry” J. Goldstein, Barry Cronin, Paul Lapides, Ross Hendin, and Mark Schwarz for reading over my material and giving me your valuable feedback.

This book could never have been written without the support of my editor, Pamela van Giessen at John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Thanks also to Jennifer MacDonald, Stacey Fischkelta, and Susan Cooper, who aided in the production and copyediting of this book.