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QUICKTURN DESIGN SYSTEMS v. SHAPIRO

Nos. 511, 1998, 512, 1998.

721 A.2d 1281 (1998)

QUICKTURN DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC., a Delaware corporation, Keith R. Lobo, Glen M. Antle, Richard C. Alberding, Michael R. D'Amour, Yen-Son (Paul) Huang, Dr. David K. Lam, William A. Hasler, and Charles D. Kissner, Defendants below, Appellants, v. Howard SHAPIRO, Plaintiff Below, Appellee. QUICKTURN DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC., a Delaware corporation, Keith R. Lobo, Glen M. Antle, Richard C. Alberding, Michael R. D'Amour, Yen-Son (Paul) Huang, Dr. David K. Lam, William A. Hasler, and Charles D. Kissner, Defendants below, Appellants, v. MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION, an Oregon corporation, and MGZ Corp., a Delaware corporation, Plaintiffs Below, Appellees,

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: December 31, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth J. Nachbar, William M. Lafferty, and Donna L. Culver, of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, Delaware; and James A. DiBoise, and David J. Berger (argued), of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Palo Alto, California, for appellants.

Kevin G. Abrams (argued), Thomas A. Beck, Lisa A. Schmidt, J. Travis Laster, Dominick Gattuso, and Michael K. Reilly, of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Delaware; Fredric J. Zepp, of Latham & Watkins, San Francisco, California; and Marc W. Rappel, of Latham & Watkins, Los Angeles, California, for appellees, Mentor Graphics Corporation and MGZ Corporation.

Joseph A. Rosenthal, and Norman M. Monhait, of Rosenthal, Monhait, Gross & Goddess, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware; and Stanley Bernstein, and Abraham I. Katsman, of Bernstein, Liebhard & Lifshitz, LLP, New York City, for appellee, Howard Shapiro.

Before WALSH, HOLLAND and HARTNETT, Justices.

HOLLAND, Justice:

This is an expedited appeal from a final judgment entered by the Court of Chancery. The dispute arises out of an ongoing effort by Mentor Graphics Corporation ("Mentor"), a hostile bidder, to acquire Quickturn Design Systems, Inc. ("Quickturn"), the target company. The plaintiffs-appellees are Mentor1 and an unaffiliated stockholder...

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