Robert Pirie

Excerpts: “Bankruptcy sale marks end of Carson’s.” The sale and closings will quietly mark the end of a company started in 1854 in Amboy, Illinois, by Samuel Carson and John T. Pirie. The company relocated to Chicago in the late 1860s, where it grew into Carson Pirie Scott & Co. department store with the help […]

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Court: It is basic to our law that the board of directors has the ultimate responsibility

Excerpts: Mills Acquisition Co. v. Macmillan, Del.Supr., 559 A.2d 1261 (1989). In this interlocutory appeal from the Court of Chancery, we review the denial of injunctive relief to Mills Acquisition Co., a Delaware corporation, and its affiliates Tendclass Limited and Maxwell Communications Corp., PLC, both United Kingdom corporations substantially controlled by Robert Maxwell. Plaintiffs sought

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Excerpts: Restoring The House of Rothschild “The first important strength of the family is unity,” he said. “The point I am trying to make is that today we’re one. As you sit here and you talk to me, you are talking to David, and if you talk to David you are talking to me.” To

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Sir Gordon White instructed Robert Pirie to terminate Hanson’s $72 per share tender offer

The following quotes are excerpted from Hanson Trust PLC v. SCM Corp, (2d Cir. 1985) Citation Code 774 F.2d 47 Docket No. 412, Docket 85-7745 Hanson Trust PLC, HSCM Industries, Inc., and Hanson Holdings Netherlands B.V. (hereinafter sometimes referred to collectively as “Hanson”) appeal from an order of the Southern District of New York, 617

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Excerpts: Chromalloy Am. Corp. v. Sun Chem. Corp., (E.D.Mo. 1979) Citation Code 474 F. Supp. 1341 Docket No. 79-935C(3). Jim J. Shoemake, Guilfoil, Symington, Petzall Shoemake, St. Louis, Mo., W. Stanley Walch, Michael D. O’Keefe, Thompson Mitchell, St. Louis, Mo., co-counsel, Robert Pirie, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher Flom, New York City, Whitman Ransom, New York

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