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L.I.S.T. v PHOENIX INVESTMENT PARTNERS Click to find out why . . .



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CaseNo: C.A. No. 18,168, CourtCode: CC, CourtName: IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, State: DE Delaware, UniqueCaseRef: DE>CC>00018168, Plaintiff: L.I.S.T., Phoenix, Home Life, Minority Shareholders, Price, Market, Investment, Relevant Times, Directors, Shares, Transaction, Common Stock, Merger, Executive Officer, Stock, Committee, Outstanding, Complaint, Unfair, Salomon, Llp, York, Managers, Private Market Analysis, Shareholders, Publicly-held, Agreement, Implied Valuation, Insurance Company, Majority, Fiduciary Duties, Damages, Public Shareholders, Control, Effectuate, Consummate, Lamarche, Alleges, Management, Vice President, Stockholders , ContentID: 120240252

Case Documents
1 2001-01-06 CONSOLIDATED AMENDED COMPLAINT
[ see first page and extracted highlights below  ] ItemID: 101019
13 pages
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2 2000-07-25 COMPLAINT
[ see first page and extracted highlights below  ] ItemID: 101020
8 pages
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Total Documents: 2 documents , 21 pages
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1 . CONSOLIDATED AMENDED COMPLAINT

EXTRACTED KEY WORDS
HOME LIFE
MINORITY SHAREHOLDERS
DEFENDANTS
PLAINTIFFS
MARKET
PRICE
MERGER
STOCK
DIRECTORS
COMMITTEE
COMPLAINT
RELEVANT TIMES
INVESTMENT
MEMBERS
UNFAIR
SHARES
SALOMON
COUNSEL
LLP
YORK
COMMON STOCK
MANAGERS
OUTSTANDING
TRANSACTION
PRIVATE MARKET ANALYSIS
EXECUTIVE OFFICER
PUBLICLY-HELD
AGREEMENT
IMPLIED VALUATION
              IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE

                             IN AND FOR NEW CASTLE COUNTY

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IN  RE PHOENIX SHAREHOLDERS LITIGATION : Consolidated C.A. No. 18 168
________________-- -------_---I-_-----   x

                                      NOTICE OF FILING OF
                           CONSOLIDATED AMENDED COMPLAINT  :::                             i.  -
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T( 1.    Jon E. Abramczyk, Esquire                 Bruce L. Silverstein, Esqun-e
         Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnel1          Young, C.onaway, Star&$ & Taylo?'
         1201 N. Market Street                     Rodney Square North  1,  I                 -,
         Wilmington, DE 1980  1                    Wilmington, DE  198Of  -                   r~ 5
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         Michael D. Goldman, Esquire                                         Y'  -t            ,yj,
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         Potter Anderson & Corroon                                                   -:
         Hercules Plaza
         13 13 N. Market Street
         Wilmington, DE 19801

                PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that-plaintiffs herewith file the within Consolidated

Amended Complaint as of course pursuant to Rule 15(a).

                In compliance with Rule  lS(aa), plaintiffs aver that the Consolidated Amended

Complaint is in full substitution for the complaint heretofore filed in Civil Action No. 18172

designated as the complaint in the consolidated action by Order entered on September 26,200O.


                                             ROSENTHAL MONHAIT GROSS



                                                   Mellon  B&k Center, Suite 140 1
                                                   919  Mytiet Street
                                                   Wilmington, DE 19899
                                                   (302) 656-4433
                                                   Plaintzffs' Delaware Liaison Counsel



OF COUNSEL:
SNIPPETS:
  • Amended Complaint as of course pursuant to Rule 15.
  • plaintiffs aver that the Consolidated Amended
  • New York, New York 10016
  • GOODKIND LABATON RUDOFF & SUCHAROW LLP
  • Plaintiffs' Co-Lead Counsel
  • IN RE PHOENIX SHAREHOLDERS LITIGATION I Consolidated C.A.
  • Phoenix provides investment management services to individuals,
  • There are over 44,000,OOO shares of Phoenix common stock outstanding, of which defendant
  • Phoenix Home Life Mutual Insurance Company owns approximately 30.7
  • Defendant Philip R. McLaughlin is and was at all relevant times Chairman
  • and Chief Executive Officer of Phoenix and an Executive Vice President and a director of Home
  • The Individual Defendants, as officers and/or directors of the Company,
  • The Class is so numerous that joinder of all members is impracticable.
  • the price of Phoenix stock climbed to $13.125 per share.
  • that Home Life timed its offer to cap the market price of Phoenix' stock which would otherwise
  • Even before formal appointment of the committee by the full Board of Directors on
  • On July 7, 2000, the committee formally retained Salomon as its financial
  • committee for the acquisition by Home Life of all of the publicly-held shares of Phoenix
  • market analysis based on nine acquisitions of investment managers from 1997 to 2000.
  • Salomon's private market analysis resulted in an implied valuation range for Phoenix of $18.33
  • agreement with Home Life at a price of $15.75 per Phoenix share.
  • September 10, 2000 immediately following the committee's decision, approved the merger
  • The merger agreement is the product of unfair dealing in at least the
  • cc> Home Life would not agree to structure the transaction to give
  • Phoenix' minority shareholders a meaningful vote with respect to the proposed merger.

  • 2 . COMPLAINT

    EXTRACTED KEY WORDS
    PHOENIX
    DEFENDANTS
    PLAINTIFF
    MEMBERS
    TRANSACTION
    COMMON STOCK
    SHAREHOLDERS
    PRICE
    INVESTMENT
    RELEVANT TIMES
    EXECUTIVE OFFICER
    SHARES
    INSURANCE COMPANY
    MAJORITY
    FIDUCIARY DUTIES
    DAMAGES
    PUBLIC SHAREHOLDERS
    CONTROL
    EFFECTUATE
    CONSUMMATE
    COURT
    LAMARCHE
    ALLEGES
    LAW
    MANAGEMENT
    OUTSTANDING
    VICE PRESIDENT
    DIRECTORS
    STOCKHOLDERS
    
                    IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE
                                      IN AND FOR NEW CASTLE COUNTY                                     
    
    ________________________________________-----------------   x
    L.I.S.T., INC., individually and on behalf of              :     C.A. No.  /  %  /  6  2  k  c
    all others similarly situated,
    
                                         Plaintiff, :
    
             -against-
    
    PHOENIX INVESTMENT PARTNERS, L-I`D.,:
    PHOENIX HOME LIFE MUTUAL
    INSURANCE COMPANY, PHILIP R.
    MCLOUGHLIN, MICHAEL E. HAYLON,
    CLYDE E. BARTTER, ROBERT W.
    FIONDELLA, MARILYN E. LAMARCHE,
    JAMES M. OATES, FERDINAND L.J.
    VERDONCK, JOHN T. ANDERSON,
    GLEN D. CHURCHILL, DONNA F.
    TUTTLE, DAVID A WILLIAMS,
    
                                         Defendants. :
    ------------------------------------------------~"-------   x
    
                                                   INTRODUCTION
    
             Plaintiff alleges on information and belief, except for those allegations which pertain to
    
    plaintiff which are alleged upon personal knowledge, as follows:
    
                                                     THE PARTIES
    
                      1.       Plaintiff is and has been at all relevant times the owner of common
    
    Phoenix Home Life Mutual Insurance Company ("Phoenix" or the "Company").
    
                      2.       Phoenix is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the
    
    of Delaware with its principal executive offices located at 56 Prospect Street, Hartford,
    
    Through subsidiaries, Phoenix provides investment management services to individuals,
    
    corporations and institutions. As of March 20,2000,  there were outstanding 44,227,583  shares of
    
    Phoenix common stock of which Phoenix Home Life Mutual Insurance Company ("Home Life")
    
    owned 30.7 million shares or 63.30%.
    
    
    SNIPPETS:
  • IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE
  • Plaintiff alleges on information and belief, except for those allegations which pertain to
  • Plaintiff is and has been at all relevant times the owner of common stock of
  • Phoenix Home Life Mutual Insurance Company.
  • Through subsidiaries, Phoenix provides investment management services to individuals,
  • Phoenix common stock of which Phoenix Home Life Mutual Insurance Company
  • owned 30.7 million shares or 63.30%.
  • director and Executive Vice President of Phoenix and Senior Vice President Securities
  • and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Home Life.
  • Defendant Marilyn E. LaMarche is a director of both Phoenix and Home Life.
  • David A. Williams are and have been at all relevant times directors of the Company.
  • The individual defendants named above,
  • owe the highest fiduciary duties of good faith, loyalty, fair dealing, due care, and candor
  • and the other members of the Class.
  • individually and on behalf of all other stockholders of the Company (except the defendants
  • press release that it had offered to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Phoenix's
  • owned by public shareholders at a price of $12.50 per share.
  • Because Home Life controls a majority of the Company's common stock,
  • unless the transaction is to be approved by a majority of the minority shareholders Home
  • Life will be able to effectuate the transaction without an effective shareholder vote.
  • Because of its control over the Company and effective control over the
  • continue to breach their fiduciary duties owed to plaintiff and the Class and will consummate
  • Plaintiff and the other members of the Class have no adequate remedy at law.
  • damages suffered and to be suffered by them as the result of the acts and transactions
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