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CHESAPEAKE CORP. v. SHORE

Civ. A. No. 17626.

771 A.2d 293 (2000)

CHESAPEAKE CORPORATION and Sheffield, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. Marc P. SHORE, Howard M. Liebman Andrew N. Shore, Leonard J. Verabay, Virginia A. Kamsky, Sharon R. Fairley, R. Timothy O'Donnell, Kevin J. Bannon William P. Weidner, and Shorewood Packaging Corporation, Defendants.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle County.

Decided: February 7, 2000.

Corrected: February 11, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jesse A. Finkelstein, C. Malcolm Cochran, IV, Anne C. Foster, Lisa A. Schmidt, J. Travis Laster, Srinivas M. Raju, Michael D. Allen, of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, of Counsel: James E. Farnham, Edward J. Fuhr, Stacy Colvin Taylor, of Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Virginia, for Plaintiffs.

Edward P. Welch, Robert S. Saunders, Martina Bernstein, Julie A. Tostrup, of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Wilmington, for Defendants.

OPINION

STRINE, Vice Chancellor.

This case involves a contest for control between two corporations in the specialty packaging industry, the plaintiff Chesapeake Corporation and the defendant Shorewood Packaging Corporation, whose boards of directors both believe that the companies should be merged. The boards just disagree on which company should acquire the other and who should manage the resulting entity.

Shorewood started the dance by making a...

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