The Third Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld the dismissal of a suit by the shareholders and creditors of Vlasic Foods International, Inc., a former Campbell Soup subsidiary that had been “spun out” of the parent. The case, VFB, LLC v. Campbell Soup Co. (March 30, 2007), upholds the broad discretion of trial courts to determine valuation issues in the context of corporate transactions and, more specifi cally, gives great weight to market capitalization as a measure of value.
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