13D Filing: Fir Tree and Ultra Petroleum Corp (UPL)

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Item 1. SECURITY AND ISSUER
This statement on Schedule 13D (the “Schedule 13D”) relates to the Common Shares, no par value per share (the “Common Shares”), of Ultra Petroleum Corp., a Canadian corporation (the “Issuer”). The Issuer’s principal executive offices are located at 400 North Sam Houston Parkway East, Suite 1200, Houston, Texas 77060.
Item 2. IDENTITY AND BACKGROUND
(a) This statement is filed by Fir Tree Inc., a New York corporation (“Fir Tree” or the “Reporting Person”). Fir Tree is the investment manager to certain private-pooled investment vehicles for which Fir Tree serves as the investment manager (the “Fir Tree Funds”), and has been granted investment discretion over portfolio investments, including the Common Shares held by the Fir Tree Funds.
Any disclosures herein with respect to persons other than the Reporting Person are made on information and belief after making inquiry to the appropriate party.
The filing of this statement should not be construed in and of itself as an admission by the Reporting Person as to beneficial ownership of the securities reported herein.
(b) The address of the business office of the Reporting Person is 55 West 46th Street, 29th Floor, New York, NY 10036.
(c) Fir Tree provides investment management services to private individuals and institutions and its principal business is investment management.
(d) The Reporting Person has not, during the last five years, been convicted in a criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations or similar misdemeanors).
(e) The Reporting Person has not, during the last five years, been a party to a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and, as a result of such proceeding, was, or is subject to, a judgment, decree or final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting or mandating activities subject to, Federal or State securities laws or finding any violation with respect to such laws.
(f) Fir Tree is a New York corporation.
Schedule A attached hereto sets forth the information required by Instruction C of the instructions to Schedule 13D.

 

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