-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, BBEmJFNef/h1+ZH/YZ6dCHQrwqcQWz4ADAfYkrq6hsDrqzqf96MY6LfWAMGQTq+A amP2BhvKSI3vBEbVZjNKaQ== 0000931059-07-000029.txt : 20070820 0000931059-07-000029.hdr.sgml : 20070820 20070820132019 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000931059-07-000029 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20070815 ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events FILED AS OF DATE: 20070820 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20070820 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: TEGAL CORP /DE/ CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000931059 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SPECIAL INDUSTRY MACHINERY, NEC [3559] IRS NUMBER: 680370244 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0331 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-26824 FILM NUMBER: 071067223 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2201 SOUTH MCDOWELL BLVD CITY: PETALUMA STATE: CA ZIP: 94954 BUSINESS PHONE: 7077635600 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2201 SOUTH MCDOWELL BLVD CITY: PETALUMA STATE: CA ZIP: 94954 8-K 1 fy2007_8k8-15.htm TEGAL_FY2007_8K_8_15_2007 fy2007_8k8-15.htm

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
____________________

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): August 15, 2007
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Tegal Corporation
(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Delaware
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
000-26824
(Commission
File Number)
68-0370244
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

2201 South McDowell Boulevard
Petaluma, CA 94954
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

(707) 763-5600
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

_____________________________________________________
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
 
 

 
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):
 


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ITEM 8.01.               OTHER EVENTS

On August 15, 2007, Tegal Corporation (the “Company”) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Sputtered Films, Inc. (“SFI”), executed a Mutual General Release and Settlement Agreement (the “Settlement Agreement”) with Gonzalez & Leigh LLP (“G&L”), one of the two law firms that represented SFI in its lawsuit against Advanced Modular Sputtering (“AMS”), which was settled in November 2006.  As previously disclosed in the Company’s SEC filings, G&L and Keker & Van Nest LLP (“KVN”) claimed they are entitled, as a result of the AMS settlement, to receive contingent fees from the Company and SFI.   KVN claims it is owed fees in the amount of approximately $6.72 million; G&L had claimed that it was owed approximately $2.25 million.  Pursuant to the Settlement Agreement, the Company paid G&L $995,000.  The Company intends to seek indemnification from KVN for the $995,000 paid to G&L.


      
                                 
      
        
      
      
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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


Date:  August 20, 2007
  
TEGAL CORPORATION
   
By: 
 
/s/Thomas R Mika
   
Name:
Title:
Thomas R. Mika
Chief Executive Officer

      
                                 
      
        
      
      
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