Legal Opinion
In Re Blinds to Go Share Purchase Litigation
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 22, 2006No. 05-2029, 05-2030PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This case poses a puzzling question about when an affiliate is not an affiliate. Cfi William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, act II, sc. ii (1595) (“What’s in a name? [TJhat which we call a rose [b]y any other name would smell as sweet[.]”). The district court agreed with Blinds to Go, Inc. (BTG) and its shareholders that Harvard Private Capital Holdings, Inc. (Holdings) violated their right of first refusal when it transferred all of BTG’s preferred shares to the putative affiliate, Charlesbank Equity Fund II, Limited Partnership (the Fund). Accordingly, the court…
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