Legal Opinion
Macfadden Holdings, Inc. v. JB Acquisition Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 6, 1986No. Nos. 1745, 1746, Dockets 86-7639, 86-7641PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MINER, Circuit Judge:
JB Acquisition Corp., BJ Holding Corp., and Reliance Capital Group, L.P. (collectively “Reliance”) and Macfadden Holdings Inc. and Macfadden Acquisition Corp. (collectively “Macfadden”) were competing tender offerors for control of John Blair & Co. (“Blair”), a communications company whose assets included several television and radio stations. After Reliance successfully acquired approximately ninety percent of the outstanding shares of Blair common stock, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Kram, J.) held that Reliance had…
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