United States Second Circuit

Williams Act claims are sufficient as a matter of law where a tender offer commenced on the date that defendant issued a press release announcing an agreement in principle to acquire a company, and the acquired company's chairman was paid during such tender offer.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/04/2002
• Published 09/04/2002

Judges

• B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge., Before FEINBERG, KEARSE, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Wayne N. Elliott (James L. Holzman, Paul M. Lukoff, on the brief), Prickett, Jones & Elliott, Wilmington, DE, for Defendants-Appellants Computer Associates International, Inc. and LWB Merge, Inc., Roger W. Kirby (Joanne M. Cicala, on the brief), Kirby McInerney & Squire, LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee Joel Gerber.