In Re Seeburg-Commonwealth United Merger

OPINION AND ORDER

There are two principal corporate parties to this multidistrict litigation. They are Commonwealth United Corporation (“Commonwealth” hereinafter) and Seeburg Corporation (“Seeburg” hereinafter). The twelve actions listed on Schedule A have been brought by stockholders of Commonwealth individually, as representatives of a class composed of all stockholders and derivatively on behalf of the corporation itself. 1 Commonwealth and Kleiner Bell & Company, Commonwealth’s investment broker and financial consultant, are defendants in all these actions. Various cf. ficers and…