Some excerpts from the brief:
February 20th, 2002
Some excerpts from the brief:
Microsoft’s Interference With Be’s Financing Efforts
54. Microsoft not only closed off critical distribution channels for Be’s products, it also impeded Be’s ability to finance its business. Microsoft, in conjunction with third parties acting as its agents, succeeded both in artificially depressing the price at which Be was able to sell its initial IPO shares and in preventing Be from engaging in a post-IPO effort to raise investment capital through a private placement offering.
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56. As a direct and proximate result of Microsoft’s illegal conduct, nearly the entire market value of Be as a publicly traded going concern, which once exceeded one billion dollars, has been eliminated.
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