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Alex Klabin and Doug Silverman's hedge fund firm Senator Investment Group has filed a 13G with the SEC regarding shares of Hyatt Hotels (H).  Per the filing, Senator now owns 5.82% of Hyatt with over 2.28 million shares.

This is a newly disclosed equity stake for the firm as they previously did not own any shares as of the end of the first quarter.  The new filing was made due to activity on July 17th.

We've also highlighted other recent portfolio activity from Senator here.

Per Google Finance, Hyatt Hotels is "a global hospitality company. The Company develops, owns, operates, manages, franchises, licenses or provides services to a portfolio of properties. The Company operates through four segments: owned and leased hotels; Americas management and franchising (Americas); ASPAC management and franchising (ASPAC), and EAME/SW Asia management and franchising (EAME/SW Asia). The owned and leased hotels segment consists of its owned and leased full service and select service hotels. The Americas segment consists of its management and franchising of properties located in the United States, Latin America, Canada and the Caribbean. The ASPAC segment consists of its management and franchising of properties located in Southeast Asia, as well as China, Australia, South Korea, Japan and Micronesia. The EAME/SW Asia segment consists of its management and franchising of properties located in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India, Central Asia and Nepal."