Legal Opinion
Joseph v. Shell Oil Co.
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Decided January 8, 1985PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARTNETT, Vice Chancellor.
These two cases are purported class actions on behalf of the shareholders of Shell Oil Company (“Shell”). In the first filed Joseph action (Civil Action No. 7450), Joseph and the other plaintiffs, on behalf of a purported- class, have challenged an attempt by Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (“Royal Dutch”) to acquire all the shares of stock of Shell not already owned by it. The plaintiffs attacked both the adequacy of the disclosures in the tender offer materials andthe entire fairness of a proposed two-step transaction beginning with a tender offer to be followed by a…
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