CHANTAL PHARMACEUTICAL CORP
DEFA14A, 1997-06-19
PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS
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FROM:    MARTIN E. JANIS & COMPANY, INC.       CONTACT:  Bev Iedynak
         PUBLIC RELATIONS                                312-943-1100
         919 North Michigan Avenue
         Chicago, IL 60611

FOR:     CHANTAL PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATION
                                                           FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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                 CHANTAL PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATION FILES SUIT
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          AGAINST DISSIDENT SHAREHOLDERS, ACCUSING THEM OF VIOLATING
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               SECURITIES LAWS, RENEGING ON AGREEMENT TO SUPPORT
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            THE NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND ACCUSING PAUL LOCIGNO OF
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               HAVING DEFRAUDED THE COMPANY IN CONNECTION WITH
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                        ASIAN DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENTS
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New York, N.Y., June 19, 1997 -- Chantal Pharmaceutical Corporation
(NASDAQ:CHTL) announced that it has filed a complaint in the United States
District Court, Southern District of New York against all of the shareholders
who had on June 11, 1997 filed a Schedule 13D with the Securities and Exchange
Commission and Rollins International, ManAssist International Co. (a Rollins
International affiliate) and Lamont Asset Management, SA. The Complaint alleges
that the Schedule 13D is false and misleading, that the defendants have violated
the Federal Securities laws relating to solicitation of Proxies, that Paul
Locigno, a central figure in the Schedule 13D filing, through Rollins and
ManAssist had arranged for a secret commission on the Company's Asian product
sales, the Peter Ting and Donald Wright (also central figures on the Schedule
13D) had disseminated false information about the Company, to drive the stock
down and thereby facilitate a takeover of the Company.

The suit also alleges that the defendants were misleading the public in using 
the name and reputation of Georgette Mosbacher by floating the suggestion that 
she would become the Chief Executive Officer of Chantal Pharmaceutical 
Corporation in the event their takeover efforts were successful. While the 
Schedule 13D filing notes that no agreement had been reached with Mosbacher to 
that effect, the Company alleges that Mosbacher has refused to become an 
executive of the Company through an acrimonious fight among shareholders, and 
therefore her name should not have been used at all. The suit alleges that Ting 
and Wright spread false information about the Company in an effort to drive 
stock down to $1.00, both to create stock trading profit opportunities, and to 
make it easier to unseat the Company's management.































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The Company had recently announced the addition of Polly Bergen as Chief 
Operating Officer, Joseph DeKama as Executive Vice President directing the 
Company's marketing and distribution, and the addition of five new directors.

The suit alleges that the election of the additional directors, and the 
appointment of Ms. Bergen and Mr. DeKama, occurred following an agreement with 
the defendant shareholders, by which the defendants agreed to support the 
re-election of management if those additions were made, and the termination of 
the Company's U.S. distributorship agreement accelerated. The Company alleges 
that the defendant shareholders, after having obtained the agreed to results, 
reneged on their agreement.

The Company's annual meeting will be held on July 17, 1997 in Los Angeles. Polly
Bergen, the Company's Chief Operating Officer, today stated that she is proud to
be part of the enhanced management team, is confident of the Company's future, 
and believes it unlikely that the Company's shareholder body will support the 
dissident group. "The dissident group contains people who have irresponsibly 
harmed this Company and our shareholders will realize that this group should not
be trusted with the Company's management," she said.

Chantal Pharmaceutical Corporation and its marketing subsidiary, Chantal Skin 
Care Corporation, have executive offices, telemarketing and warehouse facilities
in Los Angeles, with a laboratory in Kaiserslautern, Germany. In addition to 
marketing the Chantal Ethocyn Skin Care line, the Company is engaged in the 
research and development of products for androgen mediated disorders such as 
acne, hirsutism, male pattern baldness, benign prostate hypertrophy and the 
treatment of certain cancers.


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