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CaseNo: C.A. No. 18,223, CourtCode: CC, CourtName: IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, Plaintiff: FALK, State: DE Delaware, UniqueCaseRef: DE>CC>00018223, Avis, Cendant, Transaction, Stock, Directors, Common Stock, Stockholders, Shares, Controlling, York, Reason, Damages, Practices, Acts, Bid, Representatives, Adjudications, Relief, Voting, Power, Market, Foregoing Acts, Avis Group Holdings, Monaco, Fiduciary Duties, Proper , ContentID: 120240215

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1 2000-08-15 CLASS ACTION COMLAINT
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1 . CLASS ACTION COMLAINT

EXTRACTED KEY WORDS
CENDANT
DEFENDANTS
PLAINTIFF
MEMBERS
TRANSACTION
STOCK
DIRECTORS
COMMON STOCK
STOCKHOLDERS
SHARES
CONTROLLING
YORK
REASON
DAMAGES
PRACTICES
ACTS
BID
REPRESENTATIVES
ADJUDICATIONS
RELIEF
VOTING
POWER
MARKET
FOREGOING ACTS
AVIS GROUP HOLDINGS
MONACO
BUSINESS
FIDUCIARY DUTIES
PROPER
                                                                                                 
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f                        IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE
                                                                                                   
                                          IN AND FOR NEW CASTLE COUNTY


            SPENCER FALK AS TRUSTEE FOR THE FALK
            GRANTOR RETAINED ANNUITY TRUST,
            individually and on behalf of all others similarly
            situated,
                                           Plaintiff,                             CLASS ACTION
                                                                                    COMP#INT
                           - against -                                                      :_     
                                                                                                   
            AVIS GROUP HOLDINGS, INC. , CENDANT
            CORPORATION, W. ALAN CATHCART,
            LEONARD S. COLEMAN, JR.., MARTIN L.
            ED'ELMAN, STEPHEN P. HOlLMES,  MICHAEL P.
            MONACO), A. BARRY RAND, F. ROBERT
            SALERNO, and KEVIN M. SHEEIIIAN,

                                           Defendants.


                           1.      Plaintifi`alleges on information and belief, except for those

            pertain to plaintiff which are alleged upon personal knowledge, as follows:


                                                         THE PARTIES

                           2.      Plaintiff is and has been at all relevant times the owner of the

            of Avis Group Holdings, Inc. ("Avis" or the "Company").

                           3.      Avis is a Delaware corporation with offices at 900 Old Country

            Cil:y,  New York. Avis rents vehicles to business and leisure travelers through about

            locations. It is the second largest general use car rental business in the world. Avis

            approximately 3 1 million shares outstanding held by hundreds of s hareholders of




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SNIPPETS:
  • Plaintiff is and has been at all relevant times the owner of the common stock
  • of Avis Group Holdings,
  • Cil:y, New York.
  • It is the second largest general use car rental business in the world.
  • approximately 3 1 million shares outstanding held by hundreds of s hareholders of record.
  • Defendants Leonard S. Coleman,
  • , Stephen P. Holmes, Michael P. Monaco
  • Sheehan serve as directors of the Company and also serve or have served as officers
  • and/or directors of Cendant.
  • Cendant, as the controlling shareholder of Avis, and the
  • Individual Defendants owe the highest fiduciary duties of good faith, loyalty, fair dealing,
  • and candor to plaintiff and the other members of the Class.
  • individually and on behalf of all other stockholders of the Company (except the
  • As, of December 1997, there were hundreds of holders of record of Avis common stock and likely
  • create the risk of inconsistent or varying adjudications with respect to individual members
  • relief with respect to the Class as a whole.
  • The Transaction is valued at $7.50 million.
  • Cendant's voting interest in Avis would be 20% and its Ieconomic interest in Avis 33%.
  • no third party will likely bid for Avis.
  • with the Transaction without an auction or other type of market check to maximize value for
  • Cendant and its representatives on Avis' Board of Directors have the power
  • By reason of the foregoing acts, practices and `course of conduct, Cendant has
  • Declaring this to be a proper class action and naming plaintiff as Class
  • damages suffered and to be suffered by them as the result of the acts and transactions
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