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CaseNo: C.A. No. 17,559, CourtCode: CC, CourtName: IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, Plaintiff: BOGOT, State: DE Delaware, UniqueCaseRef: DE>CC>00017559, Shareholders, Merger, Warner-lambert, Directors, Fee, Ahpc, Fiduciarv, Delaware, Breach, Breakup Fee, Approve, Shares, Bogot, Agreement, Fiduciary Duties, Negotiating, Penalty, Common, Stock, Competing, Superior, Vote, Voting Rights, Transaction, Reason , ContentID: 120240639

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1 1999-11-08 CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT
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1 . CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT

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       IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE

                         IN AND FOR NEW CASTLE COUNTY

RALPH BOGOT, individually and
on behalf of all other similarly
situated shareholders of
Warner-Lambert Company,

                       Plaintiff,
                                                  >
        V.                                        >     Civil Action No.
                                                  >
WARNER-LAMBERT COMPANY, a                         >
Delaware corporation, and its individual          )
directors, LODEWIJK J. R. DeVINK,                 >
ERNEST J. LARINI, JOSEPH E. LYNCH,                )
ROBERT BURT, DONALD CLARK,                        >
JOHN A. GEORGE& WILLIAM H. GRAY, )
III, WILLIAM R. HOWELL, LaSALLE D.                )
LEFFALL, JR., GEORGE A. LORCH,                    >
ALEX J. MANDL, MICHAEL I. SOVERN,                 )
                                                  >
                       Defendants.                >

                              CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT

        Ralph Bogot ("Begot"  or "Plaintiff'), Plaintiff, individually and on behalf of all

other shareholders of Warner-Lambert Company ("Warner-Lambert" or the

"Company"), complains, based on information and belief, as follows:

                                     -Nature of the Action

        1.       This is a shareholder class action brought against Warner-Lambert and

its directors to complain of the directors' breach of their fiduciary duties owed to the

Company's shareholders by negotiating an unconscionably high termination or

"breakup" fee in its proposed merger agreement with American Home Products

Corporation  (`AHPC") (the "Agreement"), in order to coerce the shareholders to vote to


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  • RALPH BOGOT, individually and on behalf of all other similarly situated shareholders of
  • Ralph Bogot ("Begot" or "Plaintiff'), Plaintiff, individually and on behalf of all
  • its directors to complain of the directors' breach of their fiduciary duties owed to the
  • "breakup" fee in its proposed merger agreement with American Home Products
  • in order to coerce the shareholders to vote to
  • Company's directors have effectively usurped the shareholders' voting rights by
  • negotiating a penalty of $2 billion payable by the Company if the shareholders do not
  • vote to approve the merger and/or choose an alternative transaction.
  • Company's shareholders by failing to seek the greatest value for the Company's shares.
  • This Court has jurisdiction because the Company is a Delaware
  • Company's common stock.
  • The following individuals are the members
  • By reason of their positions as directors of the Company, the Director-Defendants are in a
  • related to or affiliated with any of the defendants.
  • There are questions of law or fact common to the Class
  • coerces shareholders into voting in favor of the merger of Warner-Lambert and AHPC;
  • action and has retained competent counsel experienced in litigation of this nature.
  • "lockup" or "breakup fee" of approximately $2 billion.
  • The Director-Defendants' Breach Of Fiduciarv Dutv For Failure
  • a competing bid for a proposed merger between itself and Warner-Lambert.
  • merger and to provide a superior and more valuable offer to Warner-Lambert's
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