Legal Opinion
Beebe v. Pacific Realty Trust
District Court, D. Oregon
Decided January 12, 1984No. Civ. 83-228-PAPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
PANNER, District Judge.
This is a securities fraud class action challenging the leveraged buyout of Pacific Realty Trust (“PacTrust”) by affiliates of Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. (“KKR”). The case has travelled far in a relatively short time. On October 1, 1982, Peter Bechen, PacTrust’s president and chief executive officer, telehoned KKR’s Jerome Kohl-berg and asked him to buy the company. Six weeks later, PacTrust and KKR struck a deal. (“Agreement and Plan of Exchange,” November 15, 1982; Proxy Statement, pp. A-2 to A-22.) The Proxy Statement was mailed to approximately…
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