Samuel J. Heyman

Samuel J. Heyman

Samuel J. Heyman is an American businessman, corporate raider and hedge fund owner.

He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1963. [http://www.law.harvard.edu/alumni/bulletin/2005/spring/closing_main.php Harvard Law Bulletin - The Art of Selling Government Service] ] and became an attorney for the US Department of Justice during the Kennedy Administration rising to become Chief Assistant United States Attorney. In 1968, after the death of his father he took over his family's Connecticut-based real estate firm, Heyman Properties. He founded the Washington-based Partnership for Public Service, the Heyman Fellowship Program and The Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where Professor Eric J. Pan is Director. He is married to Ronnie Feuerstein Heyman, and they have four children [http://www.ourpublicservice.org/staff_name3732/staff_name_show.htm?doc_id=147295 Partnership for Public Service Board of Governors] ]

During the 80s he was a corporate raider, using debt provided by the investment bank Drexel Burnham Lambert. Successful targets of his raids were the GAF Materials Corporation [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE2D91031F935A25753C1A961948260 COMPANY NEWS; Heyman Gets Rebuff at GAF] ] and International Specialty Products. He also made large sums of money in failed take-overs of Borg-Warner and Union Carbide. He has recently been involved in takeover attempts on Dexter, the London Stock Exchange, and Hercules Corporation [ [http://www.forbes.com//forbes/2000/1127/6614054a.html Do as I Say, Not as I Do - Forbes.com] ] .

He achieved notoriety in Australia during the QANTAS takeover when his Hedge Fund, Heyman Investment Associates [ [http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2007/05/07/1178390225893.html Heyman sails close to the edge, then over it] ] declined to accept Airline Partners Australia's offer for his share, and after the failure of the offer subsequently accepted for over half his holding, although this was unsuccessful. [ [http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21683488-601,00.html Giant bluff goes badly wrong, no hedging it] ] As his total holding was said to be 10% of QANTAS's shares, he had at risk over a billion dollars (Australian) in shares, and was possibly in violation of QANTAS foreign shareholding rules. [ [http://www.crikey.com.au/Business/20070507-Hey-Uncle-Sam-where-did-you-hide-this-10-Qantas-stake-.html For two months, Qantas has been foreign-owned] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.ispcorp.com International Speciality Corporation]
* [http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/fellowships/heyman/events.php The Heymans Fellowships at Harvard Law School]
* [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Samuel_J._Heyman Sourcewatch]


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