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Tetragon Looks For Growth After Lawsuit Win Over Cooperman

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Mark Melin
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Leon Cooperman’s Omega Partners lawsuit against Tetragon Financial Group Limited (AMS:TFG) (OTCMKTS:TGONF) has been thrown out, ending a nasty fight.

Tetragon Looks For Growth After Lawsuit Win Over Cooperman

Legal issue centered on Tetragon’s purchase of Polygon

The legal issue centered on Tetragon’s purchase of Polygon Management and fees paid to related parties.

New York based Omega had charged that Tetragon’s co-founders, Patrick Dear and Reade Griffith, who also co-founded Polygon in 2002, generated of millions of dollars from the sale of Polygon to a related party in Tetragon. Dear and Griffith were then accused of using $150 million of Tetragon’s cash to buy back nonvoting Tetragon shares,...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.