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Hess Sells Mob-Tainted Russian Assets As Hedge Fund Billionaire Paul Singer Lurks In The Background

By Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes Staff

Hess announced on Monday it is selling its Russian subsidiary Samara-Nafta to Lukoil, expecting to pocket $1.8 billion from the transaction.  The sale is at the center of several interesting narratives including hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer‘s activism in an attempt to break up the company, and implications of Hess being complicit with Russian mob organization Indeitsy, a story broken by Forbes last year. …read more
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Hess Selling Downstream Assets To Focus On Shale As Billionaire Paul Singer Looks To Shake Things Up

By Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes Staff Hess[/entity] has become the latest large-cap oil company to announce plans to shed its refining and downstream business to focus on high-margin exploration and production.  At the same time, Hess will face the activism of billionaire Paul Singer of hedge fund Elliott Management, who told the company he’s looking to load up on potentially more than $800 million in shares and will seek board representation.  Shares in the company surged on Monday.
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