Hindenburg Research disbands after targeting major firms like Adani and Nikola with allegations of fraud and mismanagement.

Infamous short-selling firm Hindenburg Research will disband, founder Nate Anderson announced on Thursday. The New York-based company has been in Indian market regulator's radar after its scathing report against the Adani Group, which failed to hold water in the Supreme Court.

Nathan Anderson, whose activist short-selling firm Hindenburg Research became famous in financial circles by publishing a video of a truck rolling down a hill, is calling it quits.

Founder Nathan Anderson says he and his team are ready to move on to the next chapter in their lives after just eight years.

Hindenburg Research which set off a firestorm in India with withering allegations against the Adani Group is being disbanded, marking the end of the American short-seller feared for successfully targeting dozens of corporations.

Anderson, who founded Hindenburg in 2017, explained in a post on the company’s website that the decision was prompted by the

Hindenburg Research's founder Nathan Anderson announced on Wednesday he would disband the firm whose short reports on companies typically led to sharp plunges in the stock prices, and in some cases, investigations by authorities.

For the last half-decade or so, the last thing any CEO wanted to was to see their company’s name in print alongside Hindenburg Research. If the firm had you in its crosshairs, things were about to get ugly and very,

Nate Anderson, the short seller who made his name with campaigns targeting billionaires Gautam Adani, Jack Dorsey and Carl Icahn, said he’s disbanding his small but renowned firm, Hindenburg Research.

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