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6 Dec, 2007 9:01 pm
Finish Line released third quarter earnings yesterday. According to Finish Line: The
Finish Line, Inc. (Nasdaq: FINL) reported consolidated net sales from continuing operations of $268.7 million for the thirteen
weeks ended December 1, 2007 ("3rd quarter" or "Q3"), a...
16 Sep, 2007 9:02 pm
The Genesco material adverse change dispute is starting to heat up in advance of the Genesco special meeting to vote on the transaction today. On Friday, The Finish Line, Inc. announced that it had received two letters from UBS which...
19 Oct, 2006 9:59 am
The chips have fallen and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., also known as AMD (NYSE: AMD) has cleared another hurdle in the process of its take-over of ATI Technologies Inc.
(NASDAQ: ATYT and the TSX: ATY) with the 99.7% ATI shareholders approval of the merger. Only time will tell if this deal will create the desired shareholder value and if AMD will be
able to rival Intel as the number one chipmaker in the world. The merger is expected to close next week. Coverage: http://shorl.com/bubrikadokypo ( ...
18 Jun, 2008 3:12 am
... at her place of employment, 10. refused to obey the command from Plaintiff's employer not to call its employees on the business line, 11. caused Plaintiff to fear employee
discipline to include termination, 12. threatened to seize Plaintiff's wages, bank accounts, ... what the Plaintiff went through. "That's the only way to make them stop is to take them
to court," he finished while also adding, "by making debt collectors pay for their violations, other consumers are less likely to be harassed." ...
3 Jan, 2008 4:57 am
... Cerberus Partners, L.P. to walk away from their $4 billion buyout of United Rentals, Inc. (URI) by paying a $100 million reverse termination fee, while the Tennessee
Chancery Court ordered Finish Line Inc. to complete its $1.5 billion acquisition of rival retailer Genesco Inc. The ...
that Genesco had suffered a Material Adverse Effect (MAE) as defined in the merger agreement, such that Finish Lines performance was
excused. Following a seven-day trial, Chancellor Ellen Hobbs found ...
28 Dec, 2007 11:42 am
... specific to Genesco. Because Genesco's problems stemmed from a general economic downturn, Finish Line had no MAE defense. The gist
of the decision gets this summation near ... and reliability of information. This milieu is UBS's home territory. UBS was advising Finish
Line. There was, then, no inequality of bargaining power nor oppression. As Professor ... not offend the conscience to enforce performance of the Merger Agreement. Genesco,
Inc. v. The Finish Line, Inc., No. 07-2137-II(III), slip op. at 41 ...
30 Jan, 2008 11:11 am
... Carve-Out On December 27, 2007 the Tennessee Chancery Court ordered sportswear retailer Finish Line, Inc. (FINL.O), to
complete its purchase of Tennessee-based shoe and hat retailer Genesco, Inc. (GCO.N), as contemplated by a merger agreement offering $54.50 per share for a total ... court found
that Section 3.24 and the parties' due diligence procedures put the onus on Finish Line to renew all requests for information until such
information was provided. To make the determination that ...
31 Jan, 2008 11:53 am
... can't imagine a Delaware Chancery Court reaching a similar decision. - Clothing retailer Finish Line, Inc., backed by UBS
financing, made an offer to buy Genesco ... deal valued at $1.5B. Finish Line and UBS then tried to back out of the deal, saying that
Genesco had failed to disclose material information that would ... and I try not to let choice of law slow done completion of a transaction. The Finish Line case is a good piece of ammunition for compromising on Delaware when asked to provide for choice ...
7 Dec, 2008 11:15 pm
... of non-reliance clauses in deals involving publicly traded target companies. Then, in late 2007, the Tennessee Chancery Court decided Genesco, Inc. v The Finish Line, Inc. In that case, a non-reliance clause in the merger agreement was viewed by the Court as an important element in its
determination that Finish Line failed to prove that the publicly traded target company, Genesco, fraudulently induced Finish Line to enter into the merger agreement. My ...
11 Dec, 2008 12:14 pm
... of non-reliance clauses in deals involving publicly-traded target companies. Then, in late 2007, the Tennessee Chancery Court decided Genesco, Inc. v The Finish Line, Inc. In that case, a non-reliance clause in the merger agreement was viewed by the Court as an important element in its
determination that Finish Line failed to prove that the publicly traded target company, Genesco, fraudulently induced Finish Line to enter into the merger agreement. My ...
28 Oct, 2007 9:01 pm
The AP is reporting that Genesco Inc. has turned over more than 1.5 million pages of internal documents to The Finish Line
Inc. in connection with Genesco's lawsuit to compel Finish Line to complete their previously agreed merger. Genesco here...
6 Mar, 2008 12:27 am
... Fraud Ritchie Capital Management LLC v. Coventry First LLC U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Business Law Acquired Firm Remains Proper Party to Action Concerning
Financier's Duty to Fund Merger UBS Securities LLC v. The Finish Line Inc. U.S. DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
Criminal Practice Court Urges U.S. to Stop Seeking Death Penalty; 'Nil' Probability, Cost Exceeding ...
10 Jan, 2008 9:08 pm
... I featured this case here. 2) Action Technologies, LLC v. Avid Technology, Inc. (SDNY, December 4). Action is sub of General Patent Corp., according to the statement it ...
America Corp. (Marshall, December 17). Acacia, as I described here. 146) Trover Group, Inc. v. Regions Bank (Marshall, December 18). According to this article, Trover Group ... ,
ATA Airlines, E*Trade, John Wiley & Sons, SkyMall, and The Finish Line (Marshall, December 28). The funny thing about this case, is
that it asserts U.S. ...
31 Jan, 2008 11:44 am
... of Chancery in that case interpreted the contract as not imposing an obligation on Cerebrus to complete its acquisition of United Rentals Inc. 2. Material Adverse Effect
(MAE) This is sometimes also known as MAC - for material adverse change. It is not ... An interpretation of one such clause came up before a Tennessee Chancery Court in the Genesco -
Finish Line Case. In this case, Finish Line refused to complete an acquisition of
Genesco on the ground that there had been a material adverse change, ...
10 May, 2008 8:00 am
... bidding, but wanted it to go to Nissan's exclusive sign supplier, Plasti-Line, Inc. of Knoxville, Tennessee, where one of Bossis' former subordinates, Ken Williams,
had ... had negotiated. They required Collins Signs to build in excess of $4 million in finished goods inventory before dealer sign orders were submitted to trigger the company's
... not the next-lowest bidder. After Plasti-Line replaced Collins Signs, Nissan converted and misappropriated tools, dies, molds, and design and manufacturing ...
17 Jan, 2008 3:05 am
Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Elecs., Inc., No. 06-937 (Jan. 16, 2008). The Supreme Court heard argument yesterday regarding the bounds of patent exhaustion, as explained in
my previous posts on the case -- click here to read them. The transcript was posted late yesterday and is an interesting read, although not one of the Supreme Court's most entertaining
arguments. I was thrilled to see Justice Breyer use a cycling hypothetical (regular readers will remember that I am a huge fan of cycling). ...
13 Nov, 2008 8:25 pm
In Farone v. Hunter Mtn. Ski Bowl, Inc., Egidio Farone was hit by another skier while at a Hunter Mountain ski resort. When the New York County Supreme Court denied Hunter
Mountain's request to dismiss the personal-injury ... of the activity's dangers and the fact that the resort did nothing to increase the risk of injury. According to the AD1, the case
had reached the finish line. To download a copy of the Appellate Division's decision, please use this link: Farone v. Hunter Mtn. Ski
Bowl, Inc.
26 Feb, 2007 4:57 am
... to raise awareness and funds in the fight against cancer. 7. Surrounded by Team in Training Members of the Society, Meghan, in April of this year, crossed the finish line of the Kentucky Derby Mini-Marathon on behalf of cancer victims everywhere to let them know that all things are possible if you ...
tomorrow for all of us. Meghan is the 2006 Honoree of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Journey of Hope Award and the founder of Meghan's Mountain Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Thumbs up to Meghan!
5 Oct, 2007 6:00 am
Here is Novell, Inc's Motion for Order Directing The Debtors to Remit Undisputed Future SVRX Royalties To Novell Upon Receipt [PDF], as text, one of the two motions Novell filed
yesterday (see previous article for commentary). The text version of the Novell motion for a lifting of the automatic stay so it can go back to Utah and drag SCO across the
finish line there will be posted next. Note that the hearing will be on November 6th. This is the one not to miss, I'd ...
17 Oct, 2007 2:14 am
... optimistic it's a new trend." N.J. Federal Judge Goes the Distance - in Running Shoes "Susan Davis Wigenton, one of the first black, female federal judges in New Jersey, blazed
another trail when she crossed the finish line of the Atlantic City Marathon." New Jersey Law Journal® P.O. Box 20081, 238 Mulberry
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