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EXHIBIT (a)(5)(c)
IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE
IN AND FOR NEW CASTLE COUNTY
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DPM LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, :
: Civil Action No. 18585NC
Plaintiff, :
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v. :
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HAROLD K. SPERLICH, THOMAS J. :
SNYDER, E.H. BILLIG, RICHARD :
M. CASHIN, JR., MICHAEL A. :
DELANEY, JAMES R. GERRITY, :
ROBERT J. SCHULTZ, COURT :
SQUARE CAPITAL LIMITED, and :
DELCO REMY INTERNATIONAL, :
INC. :
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Defendants. :
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COMPLAINT
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Plaintiff alleges upon information and belief, except as to paragraph
1 which is alleged upon personal knowledge, as follows:
THE PARTIES
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1. Plaintiff is the owner of 3000 shares of the common stock of
Delco Remy International, Inc. ("Delco" or the "Company") and has been the owner
of such shares continuously since prior to the wrongs complained of herein.
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2. Delco is a corporation duly organized under the laws of the
State of Delaware, with its principal executive offices located at 2902
Enterprise Drive, Anderson, Indiana. Delco is a global manufacturer and re-
manufacturer of original equipment and aftermarket electrical,
powertrain/drivetrain and related components for automobiles and light trucks,
medium and heavy-duty trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles.
3. (a) Defendant Court Square Capital Limited ("Court Square") is
a Delaware corporation and an indirect subsidiary of Citicorp, also a Delaware
corporation.
(b) On or about November 28, 2000, Citicorp Venture Capital
Ltd. ("CVC"), another indirect Citicorp subsidiary, transferred 3,607,343 shares
of Delco Class A Common Stock and 6,278,055 shares of Delco Class B Common Stock
to Court Square.
(c) Also on November 28, 2000, CVC assigned to Court Square all
of its rights under a stock purchase agreement dated August 1, 2000, providing
for the acquisition of approximately 3 million additional shares of Delco Class
A common stock from Mascotech, Inc.
(d) Finally, CVC assigned to Court Square all of its rights
under a 1998 agreement among certain Delco shareholders (the "shareholders'
agreement").
(e) As a result of the transactions described above, defendant
Court Square currently beneficially owns approximately 6.6 million shares of
Delco's outstanding voting stock, representing approximately 37% of the
outstanding voting shares. Court Square also owns approximately 6.3 million
shares of non-voting Class B convertible into voting stock and would,
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if converted and added to the voting shares currently owned by Court Square,
represent approximately 53% of the outstanding shares of the Company.
(f) Court Square, pursuant to the shareholders' agreement, also
has the right to nominate three of the Company's seven directors, and the
parties to the shareholders' agreement have agreed to vote their shares "in such
a way so as to elect the entire Board of Directors of the Company." Defendants
Sperlich and Gerrity are parties to the shareholders' agreement and, thus,
allied with Court Square in the management and control of the Company.
4. Defendant Harold K. Sperlich ("Sperlich") is Chairman of the
Board of Directors of Delco.
5. Defendant Thomas J. Snyder ("Snyder") is President, Chief
Executive Officer, and a director of Delco.
6. Defendant Richard M. Cashin, Jr. ("Cashin") is a director of
Delco. Cashin served as President and a Managing Director of defendant CVC
until April 2000. Defendant Cashin is a CVC nominated director of Delco.
7. Defendant Michael A. Delaney ("Delaney") is a director of Delco.
Delaney also serves as Vice President and a Managing Director of CVC and was
nominated to the Delco board by CVC.
8. Defendants E.H. Billig, James R. Gerrity and Robert J. Schultz
are directors of Delco.
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9. The Individual Defendants and Court Square, as controlling
shareholder, are in a fiduciary relationship with plaintiff and the other public
stockholders of Delco, and owe them the highest obligations of good faith, fair
dealing, due care, loyalty and full and candid disclosure.
CLASS ACTION ALLEGATIONS
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10. Plaintiff brings this action on his own behalf and as a class
action, pursuant to Rule 23 of the Rules of the Court of Chancery, on behalf of
himself and all other holders of Delco Class A common stock (the "Class").
Excluded from the Class are defendants herein and any person, firm, trust,
corporation or other entity related to or affiliated with any of the defendants.
11. This action is properly maintainable as a class action because:
(a) The Class is so numerous that joinder of all members is
impracticable. There are approximately 24.4 million shares of Delco common
stock outstanding owned beneficially by thousands of class members.
(b) There are questions of law and fact which are common to
the Class including, inter alia, the following:
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(i) whether defendants have breached their fiduciary
and other common law duties owed by them to plaintiff and the other members of
the Class; and
(ii) whether plaintiff and the other members of the
Class would be irreparably damaged were the transactions complained of herein
consummated.
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(c) Plaintiff is committed to prosecuting this action and
has retained competent counsel experienced in litigation of this nature.
Plaintiff's claims are typical of the claims of the other members of the Class
and plaintiff has the same interests as the other members of the Class.
Accordingly, plaintiff is an adequate representative of the Class and will
fairly and adequately protect the interests of the Class.
(d) The prosecution of separate actions by individual
members of the Class would create the risk of inconsistent or varying
adjudications with respect to individual members of the Class which would
establish incompatible standards of conduct for defendants, or adjudications
with respect to individual members of the Class which would as a practical
matter be dispositive of the interests of the other members not parties to the
adjudications or substantially impair or impede their ability to protect their
interests.
(e) Defendants have acted, or refused to act, on grounds
generally applicable to, and causing an injury to, the Class and, therefore,
preliminary and final injunctive relief on behalf of the Class as a whole is
appropriate.
SUBSTANTIVE ALLEGATIONS
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12. On December 22, 2000, Delco announced that it had been advised
by Court Square that Court Square intends to make an offer to acquire all of the
outstanding shares of Delco's Class A common stock not owned or controlled by
Court Square for $8.00 per share (the "Offer"). Court Square said that it
anticipates that Delco Remy's management, including
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defendant Snyder, will be given the opportunity to participate with Court Square
in continued ownership of the Company.
13. Court Square has timed the announcement of the Offer to freeze
out Delco's public shareholders in order to capture for itself Delco's future
potential without paying an adequate or fair price to the Company's public
shareholders. Court Square's offer provides Delco's public shareholders with
little or no premium for their shares as Delco common stock traded as high as
$7.31 per share on December 1, 2000, and over $8.00 per share as recently as
September 21, 2000.
14. Court Square timed the announcement of the Offer and the
proposed buyout to place an artificial lid on the market price of Delco stock so
that the market would not reflect Delco's improving potential, thereby
purporting to justify an unreasonably low price.
15. Court Square has access to internal financial information about
Delco, its true value, expected increase in true value and the benefits of 100%
ownership of Delco to which plaintiff and the Class members are not privy.
Court Square is using such inside information to benefit itself in the
transaction, to the detriment of Delco's public stockholders.
16. The Offer is an attempt by Court Square to unfairly aggrandize
itself at the expense of Delco's public stockholders. The offer will, for
inadequate consideration, deny plaintiff and the other members of the Class
their right to share proportionately in the future success of Delco and its
valuable assets, while permitting Court Square to benefit wrongfully from the
transaction.
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17. Given the Court Square's stock ownership and representation on
Delco's Board and its contractual rights, none of the directors of Delco is
truly independent and free of Court Square's influence in considering the self-
dealing transaction orchestrated by Court Square and complained of herein.
Under the circumstances, none of the directors can be expected to protect the
Company's public shareholders in the proposed transaction which will benefit
Court Square at the expense of Delco's public shareholders.
18. Because of Court Square's stock ownership and contractual
rights, no third party, as a practical matter, can attempt any competing bid for
Delco, as the success of any such bid would require the consent and cooperation
of Court Square. Thus, Court Square can pursue the Offer at an unfair price
without alternative proposals to establish Delco's transactional value.
19. Plaintiff and the other members of the Class will suffer
irreparable damage unless Court Square, with the wrongful acquiescence of the
Individual Defendants, is enjoined from breaching its fiduciary duties to
Delco's public shareholders in a proposed transaction which will benefit Court
Square to the detriment of the public shareholders of the Company.
20. Plaintiff and the other members of the Class have no adequate
remedy at law.
WHEREFORE, plaintiff demands judgment against defendants, jointly and
severally, as follows:
(1) declaring this action to be a class action and
certifying plaintiff as the Class representative and his counsel as Class
counsel;
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(2) enjoining, preliminarily and permanently, the
transaction complained of herein ;
(3) to the extent, if any, that the transaction complained
of is consummated prior to the entry of this Court's final judgment, rescinding
such transaction or granting the Class rescissory damages;
(4) directing the defendants account to plaintiff and the
other members of the Class for all damages caused to them and account for all
profits and any special benefits obtained by and defendants as a result of
defendants' unlawful conduct;
(5) awarding plaintiff the costs and disbursements of this
action, including a reasonable allowance for the fees and expenses of
plaintiff's attorneys and experts; and
(6) Granting plaintiff and the other members of the Class
such other and further relief as may be just and proper.
ROSENTHAL, MONHAIT, GROSS
& GODDESS, P.A.
By: /s/ ILLEGIBLE
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Of Counsel:
LOWEY DANNENBERG BEMPORAD
& SELINGER, P.C.
The Gateway
One North Lexington Avenue
White Plains, NY 10601
Tel: (914) 997-0500
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