IN RE NCS HEALTHCARE, INC., SHAREHOLDERS LIT.

No. 19786.

825 A.2d 240 (2002)

In re NCS HEALTHCARE, INC., SHAREHOLDERS LITIGATION.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle County.

Decided: November 22, 2002.

Revised: November 25, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Rosenthal, Rosenthal, Monhait, Gross & Goddess, P.A., Wilmington; Robert J. Kriner, Jr., Chimicles & Tikellis, LLP, Wilmington; Richard B. Bemporad, Lowey Dannenberg Bemporad & Selinger, P.C., White Plains, NY; Daniel A. Osborn, Beatie and Osborn, LLP, New York City, for Plaintiffs.

Edward P. Welch, Edward B. Micheletti, Katherine J. Neikirk, James A. Whitney, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, LLP, Wilmington; Mark A. Philips, Megan L. Mehalko, H. Jeffrey Schwartz, Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, LLP, Cleveland, OH, for Defendants NCS Healthcare, Inc., Boake A. Sells, and Richard L. Osbourne.

Jon E. Abramczyk, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington; Frances Floriano Goins, Thomas G. Kovach, Squires, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP, Cleveland, OH, for Defendant John H. Outcalt.

Edward M. McNally, Michael A. Weidinger, Elizabeth A. Brown, Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams, LLP, Wilmington; James R. Bright, Timothy G. Warner, Spieth, Bell, McCurdy & Newell Co., L.P.A., Cleveland, OH, for Defendant Kevin B. Shaw.

David C. McBride, Bruce L. Silverstein, Christian Douglas Wright, Adam W. Poff, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington; Paul Vizcarrondo, Jr., Theodore N. Mirvis, Mark Gordon, John F. Lynch, Lauryn P. Gouldin, James J. Park, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York City, for Defendants Genesis Health Ventures, Inc. and Geneva Sub, Inc.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

LAMB, Vice Chancellor.

I.

The board of directors of an insolvent, publicly traded Delaware corporation agreed to the terms of a merger pursuant to which all of its creditors will be paid in full and the corporation's stockholders will exchange their shares for the shares of a publicly traded Pennsylvania corporation. Several months after approving the merger agreement, but before the stockholder vote was scheduled...

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