Emails Hint That Herbalife Could Be Planning to go Private

In the 13D filed with SEC on Feb 14, Carl Icahn made a couple of harmless remarks about Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) including, The Reporting Persons intend to have discussions with management of the Issuer regarding the business and strategic alternatives to enhance shareholder value, such as a recapitalization or a going-private transaction. New information reported by CNBC’s Jane Well says that KPMG’s partner said in an email to his friend that, ” Herbalife was going private”.

Now this implies, as correctly pointed out by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge , that Carl Icahn was...