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Jeffrey Altman's hedge fund firm Owl Creek Asset Management recently filed a 13G with the SEC disclosing a position in Forest Oil (FST). Per trading activity on September 6th, Owl Creek has revealed a 5.04% ownership stake in FST with 5,760,829 shares.

This is a brand new position for the hedge fund as they did not own a stake at the end of the second quarter. Forest Oil recently announced a special dividend to investors of 70 million shares of Lone Pine Resources (LPR) that are owned by Forest.

The distribution will be made on September 30th for shareholders on record as of September 16th. For every one share of FST owned, shareholders will receive 0.612 of a share of Lone Pine common stock.

Per Google Finance, Forest Oil is "an independent oil and gas company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids in North America."

Back in 2010 we also detailed Altman's appearance on a hedge fund panel where he talked about how his firm had tail hedges via S&P puts and CDS because they were worried that the government wouldn't be able to do much in the event of another economic problem since rates were already at 0%. Though the recent volatility hasn't been as drastic as 2008, that was still prescient hedging.