EMPLOYEES' RET PLAN v. DR PEPPER SNAPPLE

C.A. No. 2018-0227-AGB.

189 A.3d 188 (2018)

CITY OF NORTH MIAMI BEACH GENERAL EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT PLAN and Maitland Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement Trust, on behalf of themselves and all other similarly situated stockholders of Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. DR PEPPER SNAPPLE GROUP, INC., Maple Parent Holdings Corp., Salt Merger Sub, Inc., Larry Young, David E. Alexander, Antonio Carrillo, José M. Gutiérrez, Pamela H. Patsley, Ronald G. Rogers, Wayne R. Sanders, Dunia A. Shive, and M. Anne Szostak, Defendants.

Court of Chancery of Delaware.

Date Decided: June 1, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Barry , Jeff A. Almeida , and Laina M. Herbert of GRANT & EISENHOFER P.A., Wilmington, Delaware; Mark Lebovitch and John Vielandi of BERNSTEIN LITOWITZ BERGER & GROSSMAN LLP, New York, New York; Counsel for Plaintiffs.

S. Mark Hurd , Melissa A. DiVincenzo , Eric S. Klinger-Wilensky , and Alexandra Cumings of MORRIS, NICHOLS, ARSHT & TUNNELL LLP, Wilmington, Delaware; Brian A. Herman of MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP, New York, New York; Jason H. Wilson of MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Counsel for Defendants Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc., Salt Merger Sub, Inc., Larry Young, David E. Alexander, Antonio Carrillo, José M. Gutiérrez, Pamela H. Patsley, Ronald G. Rogers, Wayne R. Sanders, Dunia A. Shive, and M. Anne Szostak.

Paul J. Lockwood , Joseph O. Larkin , Sarah R. Martin , Alyssa S. O'Connell , and Michelle L. Davis of SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM LLP, Wilmington, Delaware; Counsel for Defendant Maple Parent Holdings Corp.


OPINION

Earlier this year, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. and Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. announced an agreement to combine their businesses to create a more diversified beverage company. The transaction is structured so that Keurig will become an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Dr Pepper through a reverse triangular merger...

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