Legal Opinion
Simon Debartolo Group, L.P., Gordon Altman Butowsky Weitzen Shalov & Wein v. The Richard E. Jacobs Group, Inc., and New England Development, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 28, 1999No. 1998PublishedCited by 159 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SACK, Circuit Judge:
This appeal arises out of a contest for control of a real estate investment trust waged throughout the summer and fall of 1997 between plaintiff Simon DeBartolo Group, L.P., and a group including defendants The Richard E. Jacobs Group, Inc. and New England Development, Inc. The contest began with the defendants’ proposal to form a new entity that would be endowed, in exchange for ownership units, with the trust’s sole asset and some of the defendants’ assets. DeBartolo responded with a tender offer for control of the trust itself. Then, with a shareholder vote on the…
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