Legal Opinion
Metropolitan Life Insurance v. RJR Nabisco, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 1, 1989No. 88 Civ. 8266 (JMW)PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
WALKER, District Judge:
I. INTRODUCTION
The corporate parties to this action are among the country’s most sophisticated financial institutions, as familiar with the Wall Street investment community and the securities market as American consumers are with the Oreo cookies and Winston cigarettes made by defendant RJR Nabisco, Inc. (sometimes “the company” or “RJR Nabisco”). The present action traces its origins to October 20, 1988, when F. Ross Johnson, then the Chief Executive Officer of RJR Nabisco, proposed a $17 billion leveraged buy-out (“LBO”) of the company’s shareholders,…
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