Legal Opinion
ETOWAH ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP, LLC v. WALSH Et Al.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided July 23, 2015No. A15A0116PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Branch, Judge.
In August 2006, defendant Highstar Capital Fund II, LP (“High-star”) acquired Advanced Disposal Services, Inc. (“ADS”) for $470 million. In a lawsuit later filed against ADS, plaintiff Etowah Environmental Group, LLC (“Etowah”) claimed that ADS had presented Etowah with an artificially low price for Federal Road, a Forsyth County waste management facility owned by ADS and Etowah, and that ADS had thus induced Etowah to forego its right to “tag along” in Highstar’s acquisition of ADS. An arbitration panel later found that ADS had breached its fiduciary duty to Etowah in the…
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