AMANDA ACQUISITION CORP. v. UNIVERSAL FOODS CORP.

No. 88-C-1296.

708 F.Supp. 984 (1989)

AMANDA ACQUISITION CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. UNIVERSAL FOODS CORPORATION, Alan R. Anderson, Michael E. Batten, Dr. Olan D. Forker, Dr. Carol I. Waslien Ghazaii, Leon T. Kendall, Paul L. Kohnstamm, Charles S. McNeer, Orville R. Mertz, John L. Murray, Dr. Bernard S. Schweigert, Guy A. Osborn, Gerard E. Veneman, and Darrell E. Wilde, Defendants. UNIVERSAL FOODS CORPORATION, Counterclaim Plaintiff, v. AMANDA ACQUISITION CORPORATION, Counterclaim Defendant, and High Voltage Engineering Corporation, Hyde Park Partners, L.P., Hyde Park Holdings, Inc., Laurence S. Levy, Clifford Press, Oxbridge Capital Corporation, Berisford Capital Corporation, and S. & W. Berisford PLC, Additional Counterclaim Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Wisconsin.

March 18, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Levit, Jr., Michael B. Apfeld, Godfrey & Kahn, Milwaukee, Wis., Gregory P. Joseph, Stephen Lew, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, New York City, for plaintiff and counterclaim defendants, Amanda Acquisition Corp. High Voltage Engineering Corp. Hyde Park Partners, L.P., Hyde Park Holdings, Inc., Laurence S. Levy and Clifford Press.

David E. Beckwith, John R. Dawson, Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee, Wis., Michael W. Schwartz, Peter C. Hein, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City, for defendants and counterclaim plaintiff.

Richard P. Carr, Mary E. Triggiano-Hunt, Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, Norris & Rieselbach, Milwaukee, Wis., Jonathan I. Blackman, Jessica Sporn Tavakoli, Michael R. Chayet, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York City, for counterclaim defendants, Oxbridge Capital Corp., Berisford Capital Corp. and S. & W. Berisford PLC.

Donald J. Hanaway, Atty. Gen., and Daniel D. Stier, Asst. Atty. Gen., Madison, Wis., for intervenor State of Wis.


DECISION AND ORDER

STADTMUELLER, District Judge.

This matter is before the court on four separate motions each of which seeks preliminary injunctive relief. These motions, three of which were filed by the plaintiff and one of which was filed by the defendants, include

1. plaintiff's motion to enjoin operation of the defendants' shareholders rights plan (the poison pill); 2. plaintiff's motion...

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