Pursuits
Robert Zoellner, Founder of Alpine Associates, Dies at 82
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Robert E. Zoellner, who with his wife founded Alpine Associates Advisors, a firm specializing in merger arbitrage, long and short equity trading and bankruptcy-related investments, has died. He was 82.
He died on Dec. 23, according to a statement e-mailed yesterday by Gary Koops, a spokesman for the Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey-based company. No cause was given.