The World’s Most Feared Investor Heads for Showdown Over Nickel
- Paul Singer’s Elliott takes on the LME in London case Tuesday
- Fight over canceled nickel trades is personal for Elliott boss
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A decade ago, Paul Singer did battle with the government of Argentina — and won. Next week, the notoriously pugnacious hedge fund boss is taking on a bastion of the City of London, the 146-year-old London Metal Exchange.
For Singer, the case is personal, say several people familiar with the matter. When on March 8 last year the LME decided to cancel billions of dollars in nickel trades as prices skyrocketed, Singer was appalled and affronted, seeing it as a perversion of the free market with few precedents in the modern history of finance.