Legal Opinion
In Re Transocean Tender Offer Securities Litigation
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided May 26, 1976No. MDL No. 2559PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
Before ALFRED P. MURRAH * , Chairman, and JOHN MINOR WISDOM, EDWARD WEINFELD, EDWIN A. ROBSON, WILLIAM H. BECKER, JOSEPH S. LORD, III, and STANLEY A. WEIGEL, Judges of the Panel. PER CURIAM.
In late 1974, Vickers Energy Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Esmark, Inc. and majority shareholder of TransOcean Oil, Inc., commenced a tender offer for the approximately six million remaining shares of TransOcean. While this tender offer was in progress, various minority shareholders of TransOcean instituted three actions, each in a different federal district: the Northern…
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3Cited by2 opinions
- In Re Transocean Tender Offer Securities LitigationDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1978
- In re Transocean Tender Offer Securities LitigationDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1978