- 3 - Background At the time of filing the petition, petitioners resided in Naples, Florida. Petitioners were the only partners of Arbeit & Co. (Arbeit), a general partnership.2 NMG, Inc. (NMG), was a Delaware corporation which did business as George Rice & Sons. On March 31, 1992, Arbeit and NMG executed an agreement which required that Arbeit surrender 2,500 shares of NMG series A preferred stock, a subordinated promissory note, and certain previously issued NMG warrants. Pursuant to this same agreement, NMG issued to Arbeit a senior subordinated promissory note of $5 million and a junior subordinated promissory note of $2.4 million. NMG also issued a warrant which gave Arbeit the right to purchase 772.14 shares of NMG class A common stock at an exercise price of $1 per share. Before November 12, 1993, Arbeit, Sieben Investment Co., Berkeley Atlantic Income, Ltd., and BG Services, Ltd., held warrants to purchase NMG class A common stock in the following amounts: Warrantholder Number of Shares Arbeit 772.14 Sieben 18.36 Berkeley 115.41 BG Services 230.82 Total 1,136.73 Before December 22, 1993, NMG’s outstanding stock consisted 2Arbeit’s sole purpose was to act as a nominee for petitioners, as trustee of the Gerald Rauenhorst Revocable Trust. This trust was a revocable grantor trust, and its assets were treated as owned by Mr. Rauenhorst under sec. 676.Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Next
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