The origins of this cause – the lawyers remember - date back to first July 2001, when, at the same time to the climb of Italenergia on Montedison, Sai, controlled by Salvatore Ligresti through Premafin, was formalizing an irreversible purchase offer to Montedison for 28,7% of Fondiaria Assicurazioni. This purchase offer, based on a supposed, and later verified, hidden deal between Mediobanca and Fondiaria, and subsequently concluded thanks to the intervention of the so-called "white knigths", also making reachable the control of Fondiaria by Sai, had eluded and violated the obligation to launch a totalitarian Opa, bringing in this way an unfair damage to the minority partners. Because of the non-fulfilment to the obligation of the obligatory launching of Opa, the minority shareholders were suffering a property damage identified into the missed profit equal to the price, including the prize of majority, to which would have been able to choose to alienate their shares.
“We are still studying the sentence and then will be necessary to see if there will be other degrees of judgment. However, it seems to us to be able to say that have finally been admitted concerning the indemnification profile, the matters of Liverpool fund, that had immediately contested the existence of a non-social hidden pact", Gianmatteo Nunziante had pointed out by phone. With offices in Rome, Milan and Bologna,
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