Barry Rosenstein: JANA Partners LLC.

Barry Rosenstein is Founder & Managing Partner of JANA Partners LLC., an activist fund located in San Francisco. The fund has a special value-oriented and research-intensive approach to special situation public securities, capitalizing on the transactional legal and finance backgrounds of its principals. It has core long and short positions in companies in which it constantly surveys strategic alternatives. It similarly invests in under-followed orphan equities and also other event-driven strategies.

JANA is a $5 billion dollar event driven fund that has generated an average yearly net return of 27% since its inception. Before founding JANA, Barry Rosenstein established the private equity fund Sagaponack Partners L.P., where he served as a managing partner.

Under Barry Rosenstein’s supervision, JANA has become widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of shareholder activism. The company’s most famous activist successes occurred in joining forces with Carl C. Icahn to force Kerr-McGee to sell underperforming assets and recapitalize, which resulted in Kerr-McGee’s stock price more than doubling in the span of one year.

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