{"id":49078,"date":"2015-10-14T16:26:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T23:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=49078"},"modified":"2015-10-14T16:29:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T23:29:22","slug":"will-it-be-billasilver-or-quikbong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=49078","title":{"rendered":"Will It Be Billasilver or Quikbong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Quikbong-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-49080 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Quikbong-logo-200x179.jpg\" alt=\"Quikbong-logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Quikbong-logo-200x179.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Quikbong-logo-450x402.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Quikbong-logo.jpg 746w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-10-14\/oaktree-may-combine-reorganized-quiksilver-with-rival-billabong\">Bloomberg Business<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is reporting today\u00a0that\u00a0an investment banker who is reportedly working with <strong>Quiksilver<\/strong> (<strong>Durc Savini<\/strong>) &#8220;testified&#8221; that &#8220;at some point&#8221;\u00a0<strong>Oaktree Capital Management<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;may&#8221; merge <strong>Billabong<\/strong> and <strong>Quiksilver<\/strong> in an effort to dig Quik out of the financial hole it is currently wallowing in.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Savini added that he never directly approached Oaktree about a transaction with Billabong and that he doesn\u2019t believe Billabong \u201chas the balance sheet to support\u201d such a deal. Oaktree owns about 20 percent of Australia-based Billabong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The story also mentioned another item\u00a0reportedly in <em><strong>The New York Post<\/strong><\/em> that claimed &#8220;a Quiksilver-Billabong combination was being considered.&#8221; Guess the media just get to make stuff up and then we can\u00a0link to it like it&#8217;s news.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-10-14\/oaktree-may-combine-reorganized-quiksilver-with-rival-billabong\">Bloomberg Business<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg Business is reporting today\u00a0that\u00a0an investment banker who is reportedly working with Quiksilver (Durc Savini) &#8220;testified&#8221; that &#8220;at some point&#8221;\u00a0Oaktree Capital Management\u00a0&#8220;may&#8221; merge Billabong and Quiksilver in an effort to dig Quik out of the financial hole it is currently wallowing in. Savini added that he never directly approached Oaktree about a transaction with Billabong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49084,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49078\/revisions\/49084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}