EGY : The $7 bet on the next Persian Gulf

(Feb 14th, 2012)  Every so often it’s important to review one’s own biggest trading mistakes. My second worst trading error of the past six months occurred in January, when I got long an expensive, controversial oil name, Cobalt Energy (NYSE: CIE). Cobalt started out life as a Goldman Sachs’ backed driller in the Gulf of Mexico, and built a tidy portfolio of value-added offshore drilling. In late December of last year, Cobalt’s stock took off, moving from $10 a share to around $15, on word that its’ holdings in offshore Angola, where it was completing the Cameia-1 appraisal well, had potentially struck a a monstrous find.

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Qihoo 360 : See-No-Evil, Hear-No-Evil

Remember the 1980s oil & gas partnerships? Large E&P firms would pocket investor’s cash to shell out for leases, acrage, and the assorted equipment necessary to drill. The sky-high upfront leasing costs made sense only to investors with graphs prediction ever-rising energy prices. At the time, such pie-in-the-sky numbers looked like consensus. It was only when oil prices collapsed that in retrospect the O&G partnerships, as construed as an asset class, looked foolish. The losses were so steep, and the damage so widespread, that it took more than a decade before the Wall Street underwriting machine was able to lure the marks (er, clients) back into the business.

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Sonosite within the sights of Samsung

One of the more interesting M&A deals in the works was leaked almost a month ago by Bloomberg. In a story published at the beginning of November, Bloomberg writers  Jeffrey McCracken and Cathy Chan tipped us off to the fact that Sonosite (Nasdaq: SONO)  had hired JP Morgan to rep them in a possible sale of the company to Samsung. Read more

Little Bear Investments LLC Supports CIT Bond Exchange; Seeks to Discuss with Company Amending Terms of Exchange for Certain Classes of Long Term Debt

October 02

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Little Bear Investments LLC, (“Little Bear”) an owner of CIT Group, Inc. (“CIT”) (NYSE:CIT) debentures, approves of today’s release by the CIT Board of Directors and Steering Committee (collectively, the “Committee”) of the Offering Memorandum, Disclosure Statement and Solicitation of Acceptances of a Prepackaged Plan of Reorganization (the “Bond Exchange”). The Bond Exchange is designed to reduce the direct and indirect unsecured debt in CIT by approximately $5.7 billion. In order to accomplish this, the Bond Exchange offers certain bondholders the right to exchange existing unsecured bonds (“Old Notes”) for new secured bonds (“New Notes”) plus additional consideration consisting of new shares of preferred stock (“New Preferred”).

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Brendan Technologies Secures $600,000 Bridge Financing

Tuesday July 17, 8:30 am ET

CARLSBAD, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Brendan Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: BDTE – News), an analytical software company developing advanced commercial software for immunoassay and bioassay testing technologies, has secured a bridge financing totaling $600,000, led by Little Bear Investments LLC as the lead investor and facilitated by Midtown Partners & Co. LLC.

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Little Bear Investments LLC Participates in Caprius, Inc. $2.5 Million Private Placement

Thursday March 1

NEW YORK, March 1 — Little Bear Investments LLC (“Little Bear”) announced today that it has once more participated in a private placement to purchase common stock and warrants of Caprius, Inc. (OTCBB: “CAPS” ). This is Little Bear’s second investment in Caprius as it also participated in a round of financing for the Company in February of 2005.

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