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FORT MYERS EMPLOYEES' PENSION v. HALEY

No. 368, 2019.

235 A.3d 702 (2020)

CITY OF FORT MYERS GENERAL EMPLOYEES' PENSION FUND, and Alaska Laborers-Employers Retirement Trust, on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated former stockholders of Towers Watson & Co., Plaintiffs-Below, Appellants, v. John J. HALEY, Valueact Capital Management, L.P., and Jeffrey Ubben, Defendants-Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: June 30, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Barry, Esquire , Christine M. Mackintosh, Esquire , Grant & Eisenhofer P.A., Wilmington, Delaware. Of Counsel: Lee D. Rudy, Esquire , Geoffrey C. Jarvis, Esquire , J. Daniel Albert, Esquire , Stacey A. Greenspan, Esquire , Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP, Radnor, Pennsylvania, for Appellants.

Raymond J. DiCamillo, Esquire , Daniel E. Kaprow, Esquire , Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware. Of Counsel: Richard S. Horvath, Jr., Esquire , Gavin P.W. Murphy, Esquire , Paul Hastings LLP, San Francisco, California for Appellees ValueAct Capital Management, L.P. and Jeffrey Ubben.

Bradley R. Aronstam, Esquire , Roger S. Stronach, Esquire , Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, Delaware. Of Counsel: John A. Neuwirth, Esquire , Joshua S. Amsel, Esquire , Matthew S. Connors, Esquire , Amanda K. Pooler, Esquire , Sean Moloney, Esquire , Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, New York for Appellee John J. Haley.

Before SEITZ, Chief Justice; VALIHURA, VAUGHN and TRAYNOR, Justices; and DAVIS, Judge, constituting the Court en Banc.

This appeal arises from the 2016 "merger of equals" between Towers Watson & Co. ("Towers") and Willis Group Holdings Public Limited Company ("Willis"). In June of 2015, the two publicly-traded firms executed a merger agreement with closing conditioned on the approval of their respective stockholders. Although...

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