A Florida court has thrown out the $1.58 billion award won by Ronald Perelman against Morgan Stanley over the billionaire’s 1998 sale of camping gear maker Coleman to Sunbeam.
Morgan Stanley advised Sunbeam in its purchase of Perelman’s 82% stake in Coleman. Within weeks after the close of the deal, Sunbeam had fired CEO Al Dunlap and restated its earnings, steps that started the appliance company on the path to a 2001 bankruptcy filing that made its stock—14.1 million shares of which Perelman received in the deal—worthless. Perelman claimed the bank lured him into the deal by fraudulently misrepresenting Sunbeam’s financial condition.
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