Another Brilliant McClendon Move: ‘Pure Play’ Public Companies

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Aubrey McClendonBig news from MDN friend and Marcellus/Utica driller Aubrey McClendon. McClendon, now CEO of American Energy Partners (and former CEO of Chesapeake Energy), told a Hart Energy conference yesterday that the companies he’s started since leaving Chesapeake will soon go public–each of them individually. And he’ll start even more companies that will go public. McClendon is adopting a “pure play” approach in which each company will be independently run and focus on a single shale play. Once again McClendon has taken the road less traveled and is pioneering a brilliant strategy to dominate the plays which he chooses to target. MDN’s words when the Chesapeake board dismissed Aubrey (from April 1, 2013) were prophetic: “Why is it an error to show McClendon to the door even in light of his aggressive financial deals? You think McClendon will take his piles of money and sit on a Caribbean beach somewhere? In your dreams! He’ll be back, and he’ll start (or buy) another company that will directly compete with Chesapeake. You can bank on it.” (see McClendon Exits Chesapeake, Well-Bonused “Friends” Replace Him)…

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