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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-21-358274
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	DFAN14A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20211216
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20211215

SUBJECT COMPANY:	

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			LEE ENTERPRISES, Inc
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000058361
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	NEWSPAPERS:  PUBLISHING OR PUBLISHING & PRINTING [2711]
		IRS NUMBER:				420823980
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0926

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		DFAN14A
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-06227
		FILM NUMBER:		211495803

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		4600 E. 53RD STREET
		CITY:			DAVENPORT
		STATE:			IA
		ZIP:			52807
		BUSINESS PHONE:		5633832100

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		4600 E. 53RD STREET
		CITY:			DAVENPORT
		STATE:			IA
		ZIP:			52807

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	LEE ENTERPRISES, INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20050610

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	LEE ENTERPRISES INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703

FILED BY:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			MNG Enterprises, Inc.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001688152
		IRS NUMBER:				814140550
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		DFAN14A

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		101 W. COLFAX AVENUE
		STREET 2:		SUITE 1100
		CITY:			DENVER
		STATE:			CO
		ZIP:			80202
		BUSINESS PHONE:		214-969-2831

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		101 W. COLFAX AVENUE
		STREET 2:		SUITE 1100
		CITY:			DENVER
		STATE:			CO
		ZIP:			80202
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION </B></P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">Soliciting Material Under Rule 14a-12</TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:22pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>LEE ENTERPRISES,
INCORPORATED </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER) </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>MNG ENTERPRISES, INC. </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>MNG INVESTMENT HOLDINGS, LLC </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>STRATEGIC INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES LLC </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>ALDEN GLOBAL CAPITAL LLC </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>HEATH FREEMAN </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>COLLEEN
BROWN </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>CARLOS SALAS </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>JOHN ZIESER </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Name of
Persons(s) Filing Proxy Statement, if other than the Registrant) </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Payment of Filing Fee (Check the appropriate box): </P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Per unit price or other underlying value of transaction computed pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 0-11 (set forth the amount on which the filing
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">On December&nbsp;15, 2021, Strategic Investment Opportunities LLC
(&#147;Opportunities&#148;) filed a complaint (the &#147;Complaint&#148;) in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware with respect to Lee Enterprises, Incorporated&#146;s rejection of Opportunities&#146; previously reported director nominees.
A copy of the Complaint is attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated herein by reference. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">On December&nbsp;15, representatives of
Alden Global Capital LLC distributed the Complaint to certain media outlets with the following message: Please see the attached lawsuit seeking to prevent Lee directors from denying stockholders a voice. Lee&#146;s stockholder-unfriendly staggered
board has exhibited all of the symptoms of severely entrenched leadership focused more on its own power than what&#146;s best for the company &#151; including adoption of unusual and improper bylaws designed to impede stockholder nominations to fill
board seats, which the board has now used to purportedly invalidate the nomination of three independent directors, as well as an outright rejection of Alden&#146;s offer without any attempt to engage. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Alden Global Capital LLC and certain affiliated entities intend to file a proxy statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
(the &#147;SEC&#148;) in connection with the solicitation of proxies from the stockholders of Lee Enterprises, Incorporated for use at its 2022 annual meeting of stockholders. In accordance with Rule
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">14a-12(a)(1)</FONT> under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the following persons are or may be deemed to be, participants in the proxy solicitation: MNG Enterprises, Inc., MNG Investment Holdings,
LLC., Strategic Investment Opportunities LLC, Alden Global Capital LLC, Heath Freeman, Colleen B. Brown, Carlos P. Salas and John S. Zieser. Certain of the participants may be deemed to beneficially own 371,117 shares of common stock of Lee
Enterprises, Incorporated. Additional information relating to the participants and their beneficial ownership of common stock of Lee Enterprises, Incorporated is contained in Alden Global Capital LLC&#146;s statement on Schedule 13D initially filed
with the SEC on January&nbsp;29, 2020 (as it may be amended from time to time, including on June&nbsp;10, 2020, November&nbsp;23, 2021, November&nbsp;29, 2021, and December&nbsp;10, 2021, the &#147;Alden Schedule 13D&#148;) and will be set forth in
the proxy statement and other materials filed with the SEC in connection with the solicitation of proxies by the participants. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">INFORMATION RELATING TO THE PARTICIPANTS IN SUCH PROXY SOLICITATION IS CONTAINED IN THE ALDEN SCHEDULE 13D. EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE DISCLOSED IN
THE ALDEN SCHEDULE 13D, THE PARTICIPANTS HAVE NO INTEREST IN LEE ENTERPRISES, INCORPORATED OTHER THAN THROUGH THE BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SHARES OF COMMON STOCK OF LEE ENTERPRISES, INCORPORATED, AS DISCLOSED IN THE ALDEN SCHEDULE 13D. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ALL STOCKHOLDERS OF LEE ENTERPRISES, INCORPORATED ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT AND OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE SOLICITATION OF PROXIES
BY THE PARTICIPANTS FROM THE STOCKHOLDERS OF LEE ENTERPRISES, INCORPORATED WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION, INCLUDING INFORMATION RELATING TO THE PARTICIPANTS IN SUCH PROXY SOLICITATION. WHEN COMPLETED, A
DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT AND A FORM OF PROXY WILL BE MAILED TO STOCKHOLDERS OF LEE ENTERPRISES, INCORPORATED AND WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE AT NO CHARGE AT THE SEC&#146;S WEBSITE AT HTTP://WWW.SEC.GOV. </P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">STRATEGIC INVESTMENT<BR>OPPORTUNITIES LLC,</P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">Plaintiff,</P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt" align="left">&nbsp;</P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">LEE ENTERPRISES, INCORPORATED, MARY E. JUNCK, STEVEN FLETCHER, MARGARET R. LIBERMAN, BRENT MAGID, HERBERT W. MOLONEY, KEVIN D. MOWBRAY, DAVID PEARSON and
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Plaintiff Strategic Investment Opportunities LLC (&#147;Opportunities&#148;), by and through its undersigned attorneys, brings this Verified
Complaint against Defendants Lee Enterprises, Incorporated (&#147;Lee&#148; or the &#147;Company&#148;) and Mary E. Junck, Steven Fletcher, Margaret R. Liberman, Brent Magid, Herbert W. Moloney, Kevin D. Mowbray, David Pearson and Gregory P.
Schermer (the &#147;Director Defendants&#148; and together with the Company, &#147;Defendants&#148;), and alleges upon knowledge as to itself, and upon information and belief as to all other matters, as follows: </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">1. This dispute arises from adoption by the Company&#146;s board of directors (the &#147;Board&#148;) of advance notice provisions that
illegitimately infringed on the stockholder franchise when the Board approved the Second Amended and Restated <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">By-Laws</FONT> of the Company (the &#147;Bylaws&#148;) in 2019, and Defendants&#146; use of those same
provisions to justify the improper rejection of a valid director nomination provided by a stockholder of record of a slate of three independent director nominees. The Company has breached the Bylaws and the Director Defendants have breached the
fiduciary duties they owe to Opportunities in an effort to prevent the stockholders from having a say on Lee&#146;s future through the election of directors at the Company&#146;s next annual meeting (the &#147;2022 Annual Meeting&#148;). The
Defendants&#146; conduct thereby entrenches the Board at the expense of stockholders&#146; rights. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">2. The unusual Bylaw provision at
issue only permits a stockholder of record (rather than a beneficial owner, as is the case with almost all listed companies) to request the form of questionnaire and written representation and agreement required of nominees (the &#147;Forms&#148;),
and (b)&nbsp;allows the Company&#146;s Secretary up to 10 days to respond to the request. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">3. Opportunities is a well-established
stockholder of Lee and as of November 2021, was beneficial owner of approximately 6.3% of the Company&#146;s common stock. It is affiliated with Alden Global Capital, LLC (&#147;Alden&#148;), a significant investor in American newspapers. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">4. On Monday, November&nbsp;22, 2021, Alden proposed to acquire Lee, which is a provider of
local news, information and advertising in 26 states, for $24.00 per share, representing a substantial 30% premium over its closing share price of $18.49 on Friday, November&nbsp;19, 2021 (the last trading day prior to the public announcement of
Alden&#146;s bid).&nbsp;While Alden&#146;s proposal represented a significant premium for stockholders, it was designed to be a preliminary proposal, with the goal of opening a dialogue to engage constructively with the Company. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">5. Opportunities also believed that it was necessary to provide a platform for the Company&#146;s stockholders to have their voices heard
should the Board fail to summarily reject Alden&#146;s offer or engage with Alden (which is, unfortunately, precisely what occurred). Heightening concerns that the Board would not engage, Lee has a classified Board, and two of the three Director
Defendants whose terms will expire in 2022 &#150; Ms.&nbsp;Junck, the Chairman, and Mr.&nbsp;Moloney &#150; have each been on the Board for two or more decades, and two of the three &#150; Ms.&nbsp;Junck and Mr.&nbsp;Mowbray &#150; are long-time
Company insiders and have every reason to maintain the status quo and their lucrative corporate positions. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">6. Accordingly, on, Monday, November&nbsp;22, Opportunities wrote the Company to request
that Lee&#146;s Secretary provide the form of questionnaire and representations and agreements (collectively, the &#147;Forms&#148;) required of nominees under the Company&#146;s Bylaws (the &#147;Request Letter&#148;), in order for it to nominate
candidates for the three Board seats that will be up for election at the 2022 Annual Meeting. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">7. The Company sent a letter to
Opportunities the following day, advising that the Company would not provide the Forms to Opportunities. The letter asserted that Opportunities&#146; request was &#147;unreasonable&#148; and citing a Bylaw provision that only permits <I>stockholders
of record</I> to request such Forms as well as time constraints. However, belying any time constraints, on the next day, Wednesday, November&nbsp;24, 2021, the Company had time to prepare, and Director Defendants had time to adopt, a poison pill
expressly aimed at Alden&#146;s proposal. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">8. On Friday, November&nbsp;26, 2021, Opportunities&#151;through Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co., the
holder of record of the Company stock for which Opportunities is the beneficial owner&#151;timely submitted a notice of nomination (the &#147;Nomination Notice&#148;) of three directors to the Company&#146;s Board, providing all information and
representations of the nominees and Opportunities, as beneficial owner, required under the Bylaws. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">9. One week later, on Friday, December&nbsp;3, 2021, the Company rejected the Nomination
Notice, advising Opportunities that it was relying on two principal theories as the basis for such rejection: (1)&nbsp;while Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co., as record holder for the shares beneficially owned by Opportunities, was the proper entity to submit
the Nomination Notice, Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. did not, itself, comply with certain of the nomination requirements under the Bylaws; and therefore the Nomination Notice was invalid; and (2)&nbsp;regardless of the substance of the information conveyed in
the Nomination Notice&#151;including whether it fully complied with the requirements of the Bylaws&#151;certain of such information was not submitted on the Company&#146;s own Forms, and therefore it was invalid. Indeed, the Company did not even
point to any substantive information missing from the questionnaires submitted with the Nomination Notice. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">10. Then, on Thursday,
December&nbsp;9, 2021, consistent with the concerns that had prompted the board nominations, the Company rejected Alden&#146;s proposal without engaging with either Alden or Opportunities. The Board&#146;s refusal to engage is consistent with its
wrongful and baseless refusal to provide the Forms and subsequent rejection of Opportunities&#146; Nominations Notice. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">11. Indeed, the
Defendants had no legitimate reason to reject the Nomination Notice, and their actions smack of unlawful entrenchment. In doing so, the Company both ignored the plain terms of the Bylaws and attempted to impose heightened standards and obligations
on Opportunities, weaponizing its unusually restrictive advance notice provisions, particularly the requirement that only a stockholder of record can request Forms and that upon such request the Secretary has 10 days to provide the Forms. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">12. The Company&#146;s conduct is in breach of the Bylaws, and the Director Defendants have
breached their fiduciary duties of good faith and loyalty under Delaware law. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">13. Upon information and belief, the 2022 Annual Meeting
will likely occur in February 2022; thus, Plaintiff therefore is left with no recourse but to seek prompt judicial enforcement of Opportunities&#146; rights. </P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><B>The Parties and Relevant <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-Parties</FONT> </B></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">14. Plaintiff Strategic Investment Opportunities LLC is a Delaware limited liability company that is an affiliate of <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-party</FONT> Alden Global Capital LLC. Opportunities is the beneficial owner of 371,117 shares of common stock of LEE, with Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. serving as holder of record. As of December&nbsp;3, 2021, Opportunities
held 1,000 of those shares as record holder. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">15. Defendant Lee Enterprises, Incorporated is a Delaware corporation that trades on NASDAQ
under the ticker &#147;LEE.&#148; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">16. Defendant Mary E. Junck has served as a Director of the Company since 1999 and as Chairman since
February 2019. She joined Lee in 1999 as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and served as President from 2000 to 2016, and Chief Executive Officer (&#147;CEO&#148;) from 2001 to 2016. Ms.&nbsp;Junck&#146;s Board term will expire in
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">17. Defendant Steven Fletcher has served as a Director of the Company since 2020. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">18. Defendant Margaret R. Liberman has served as a Director of the Company since 2019. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">19. Defendant Brent Magid has served as a Director of the Company since 2010. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">20. Defendant Herbert W. Moloney has served as a Director of the Company since 2001. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">21. Defendant Kevin D. Mowbray has served as a Director of the Company since 2016 and became the Company&#146;s President and CEO in February
2016, after serving as the Company&#146;s Chief Operating Officer from 2013 to 2016.</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">22. Defendant David Pearson has served as a Director
of the Company since 2020. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">23. Defendant Gregory P. Schermer has served as a Director of the Company since 1999. Prior to his retirement
in 2016, Mr.&nbsp;Schermer held several senior roles at the Company, including Vice President-Strategy of the Company (2012 to 2016), Vice President-Interactive Media (2006 to 2012), and Corporate Counsel (1989 to 2006). </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">24. As set forth in Article Sixth of Lee&#146;s Amended and Restated Certificate of
Incorporation, the Company has a classified board, &#147;divided into three classes as nearly equal in number as possible.&#148; The terms of Ms.&nbsp;Junck, Mr.&nbsp;Moloney and Mr.&nbsp;Mowbray will expire at the 2022 Annual Meeting. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">25. <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-party</FONT> Alden Global Capital LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, is an affiliate of
Opportunities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">26. <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-Party</FONT> Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. is the nominee for the Depository Trust Company
and is the holder of record for the vast majority of publicly traded shares in the United States.<SUP STYLE="font-size:85%; vertical-align:top">1</SUP> As of Friday, November&nbsp;26, 2021, the date that nominations were submitted, Cede&nbsp;&amp;
Co. was holder of record for 371,117 shares of the Company&#146;s common stock on behalf of Opportunities, as beneficial owner. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">27. <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-parties</FONT> Colleen B. Brown, Carlos P. Salsas, and John S. Zieser (collectively, the &#147;Nominees&#148;) are Plaintiff&#146;s nominees to the Company&#146;s Board, as set forth in the Nomination Notice. </P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><B>The Board&#146;s 2019 Amendment of the Company&#146;s Bylaws Places Obstacles around Stockholder Nominations
and Solidifies the Director Defendants&#146; Control over the Company. </B></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">28. On June&nbsp;26, 2019, the Board adopted
and approved, effective immediately, Bylaws which, among other things, implement advance notice </P> <P STYLE="line-height:8.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000;width:11%">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left">In 2007, the SEC estimated that at least 85% of exchange-traded shares were in &#147;street name,&#148; with
most shares deposited with Cede. <I>See Roundtable on Proxy Voting Mechanics</I> (SEC) (May 23, 2007), https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/ proxyprocess/proxyvotingbrief.htm. </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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bylaws regarding the nomination of directors by stockholders. While such advance notice provisions may purport to facilitate orderly election contests and provide the Company with time to respond
to stockholder nominations, certain of the provisions adopted by the Board are substantially more burdensome than those adopted by other public companies and have no justification other than to place obstacles around stockholder nominations. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">29. It is a sign of the Company&#146;s poor performance on corporate governance metrics when it has a classified board in place, along with
its other structural defenses.<SUP STYLE="font-size:85%; vertical-align:top">2</SUP> It is therefore a red flag as to whether a board&#146;s motivations are legitimate when a classified board, such as Lee&#146;s, adopts bylaws that deviate far from
the norm. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">30. The Bylaws replaced almost entirely Article II of the Amended and Restated Bylaws effective as of February&nbsp;22, 2017
(the &#147;2017 Bylaws&#148;), governing stockholders&#146; meetings and, in particular under Section&nbsp;2, Nomination of Directors and Other Business. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left">According to Proxy Advisor Glass Lewis, empirical studies have shown: &#147;(i) staggered boards are associated
with a reduction in a firm&#146;s valuation; and (ii)&nbsp;in the context of hostile takeovers, staggered boards operate as a takeover defense, which entrenches management, discourages potential acquirers, and delivers a lower return to target
shareholders.&#148; 2021 Guidelines: United States at 21 (2020),
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">https://www.glasslewis.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/US-Voting-Guidelines-GL.pdf.</FONT></FONT></FONT> Proxy Advisor ISS likewise views classified
boards as amongst the &#147;most adverse&#148; corporate governance provisions. Americas: Proxy Voting Guidelines Updates for 2022 (Dec. 7, 2021), https://www.issgovernance.com/file/policy/ latest/updates/Americas-Policy-Updates.pdf.
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">31. Regarding nominations by stockholders, Section&nbsp;2(a) of Article II of the 2017
Bylaws provided in pertinent part: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Nominations of persons for election as directors may be made at a meeting of stockholders only ... by
any stockholder of the corporation entitled to vote for the election of directors at the meeting who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section&nbsp;2. Any such nomination, &#133; shall be made pursuant to timely notice in writing
to the Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board of Directors. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Section&nbsp;2(a) of the 2017 Bylaws further required the
nominating stockholder to furnish six categories of information and for nominees to &#147;furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as
director.&#148; Section&nbsp;2(a) of the 2017 Bylaws does not require that the nominating stockholder be a holder of record. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">32. The
Bylaws adopted in 2019 imposed numerous new and expansive requirements, including that (a)&nbsp;the nominating stockholder now be &#147;a stockholder of record at the time such notice is delivered to the Secretary of the [Company] . . . , on the
record date for the determination of stockholders of the [Company] entitled to vote at the meeting, and at the time of the meeting,&#148; Art. II &#167; 2(a); and (b)&nbsp;that the nominating stockholder, the &#147;Holder,&#148;<SUP
STYLE="font-size:85%; vertical-align:top">3</SUP> and each nominee provide multiple categories of information, written representations and agreements, and completed questionnaires, as set forth in subparagraphs (1), (3) and (4)&nbsp;of Article II,
Section&nbsp;2(a). For perspective, while Section&nbsp;2 of Article II of the 2017 Bylaws is about one page in length, in the 2019 Bylaws it expanded to more than six pages. </P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left">&#147;Holder&#148; is defined in the Bylaws to include the nominating stockholder and any beneficial owner on
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recognizes that the Holders may be distinct from, or additional to, the stockholder of record, and seeks representations accordingly: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:9%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">3.&nbsp;as to the Holders, set forth &#133; (v)&nbsp;a representation by the Noticing Stockholder that the Noticing Stockholder
is a stockholder of record of the Corporation entitled to vote at the meeting &#133;, (vi) a representation as to whether any Holder intends or is part of a group which intends to (A)&nbsp;deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of
at least the percentage of the outstanding shares of the Corporation required to approve or adopt the proposal or elect the nominee and/or (B)&nbsp;otherwise solicit proxies from stockholders of the Corporation in support of such proposal or
nomination, (vii)&nbsp;a certification regarding whether each Holder has complied with all applicable federal, state and other legal requirements in connection with its acquisition of shares or other securities of the Corporation and such
Holder&#146;s acts or omissions as a stockholder of the Corporation and (viii)&nbsp;the Noticing Stockholder&#146;s representation as to the accuracy of the information set forth in the notice. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">34. Of critical importance here, while certain information that must be provided regarding the nominees is listed in subparagraphs
(1)&nbsp;and (4), the referenced questionnaire and written representation and agreements of the nominees must be &#147;in the form to be provided by the Secretary <B><I>upon written </I></B><B><I>request of any stockholder of record within 10 days
of such request</I></B>.&#148; Art. II &#167; 2(a)(4) (emphasis added) (the &#147;Questionnaire Notice Requirement&#148;). </P>
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beneficial owner) can request a nomination questionnaire is extremely rare and found in the bylaws of less than 3% of listed companies. The Questionnaire Notice Requirement is also unusually burdensome, because it effectively shortens the window in
which a stockholder can nominate and gives the Company &#147;notice of a notice.&#148; This timing is a function of the fact that Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. is the record holder of most exchange-traded shares, and it may take a week to ten days for an
investor to move shares from street name to record name, and then the Company would have another ten days to provide the questionnaire from the receipt of the request. Depending on the timing of the nomination window (under some circumstances, it
may be as short as ten days), the stockholder would not have time to nominate assuming the Company took the allotted 10 days to provide questionnaires. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">36. The Questionnaire Notice Requirement is also troubling because it serves no purpose other than to suppress nominations. There is no reason
to prohibit the beneficial owner from requesting forms when the Company separately requires that only a stockholder of record may submit a nomination notice. A beneficial owner should be allowed to take the preparatory steps in furtherance of
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seeking to nominate director candidates regardless of whether they hold shares in record name as of the time of requesting the required nominee forms. Further, such a requirement allows for
gamesmanship, by giving the Company ten days in which it can alter its standard questionnaire and impose heightened requirements. The <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-day</FONT> window is also unnecessary; should a standard questionnaire be
inadequate, under the Bylaws the Company may request, and the Holder or nominee must provide, &#147;such other information as may be reasonably required to determine (i)&nbsp;the eligibility of a proposed nominee to serve as a director of the
Corporation.&#148; Art. II &#167; 2(a)(4). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">37. Under the terms of the Bylaws, the deadline to submit nominations for the 2022 Annual
Meeting was November&nbsp;26, 2021. <I>See </I>Art. II &#167; 2(c) (to be timely under the Bylaws, a stockholder&#146;s notice of nomination &#147;must be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation in writing
not later than the Close of Business . . . on the 90th day nor earlier than the Close of Business on the 120th day prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year&#146;s annual meeting&#148;).<I> </I> </P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><B>Opportunities Seeks to Nominate Three Directors to the Board.</B> </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">38. Opportunities has been a beneficial owner of Company common stock since January 2020. On January&nbsp;29, 2020, it jointly filed with Alden
and certain other affiliates a Schedule 13D disclosing a 5.9% ownership interest in Lee. </P>
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STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-binding</FONT> indicative proposal to acquire the Company for $24.00 per share (the &#147;Offer Letter&#148;). This proposal represented an approximately 30% premium to Lee&#146;s closing share price of $18.49 on
Friday, November&nbsp;19, 2021 (the last trading day prior to the public announcement of Alden&#146;s bid). On the same day, Alden issued a press release that included a copy of the Offer Letter, which was attached as an exhibit to an amended
Schedule 13D filed on November&nbsp;23, 2021. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">40. Opportunities believed it necessary to provide a platform for stockholders to have
their voices heard should the Board fail to engage with Alden or Opportunities or summarily reject the offer. These concerns that the Board would be recalcitrant regarding Alden&#146;s proposal were bolstered by the fact that Lee has a classified
Board and two of the three Director Defendants whose terms would expire in 2022 &#150; Ms.&nbsp;Junck and Mr.&nbsp;Moloney &#150; have each been on the Board for two or more decades.&nbsp;Even more concerning, Ms.&nbsp;Junck, the Chairman, and
Mr.&nbsp;Mowbray, the CEO, are long-time Company insiders and have every reason to maintain the status quo and their lucrative corporate positions. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">41. Thus, Opportunities sought to put forth three director nominees for the Board, to be voted on at Lee&#146;s 2022 Annual Meeting.
Accordingly, also on Monday, November&nbsp;22, 2021, in preparation for the submission of Opportunities&#146; Nominees, Opportunities sent the Request Letter, requesting in writing the Forms, as purportedly required pursuant to Article II, Sections
2(b)(1) and (4)&nbsp;of the Bylaws. </P>
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was refusing to provide either of the Forms (the &#147;November 23 Letter&#148;). While these Forms were presumably <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">easily-accessible</FONT> and the Company could have promptly sent them to Opportunities, Lee&#146;s
Secretary and General Counsel, C. Dana Waterman III, claimed that Opportunities&#146; request was &#147;unreasonable on its face.&#148; <I>Id.</I> This excuse quickly proved <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">pre-textual,</FONT> however, as the
November&nbsp;23 Letter pivoted from blaming time constraints for Lee&#146;s inability to provide the purported required Forms, to contesting Opportunities&#146; stock ownership. <I>Id.</I> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">43. Principally among the alleged deficiencies claimed in the November&nbsp;23 Letter was that the Request Letter was sent by
Opportunities&#151;the beneficial owner&#151;rather than the record holder, Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co., and did not comply with the Questionnaire Notice Requirement: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">While your client&#146;s correspondence to me identifies Opportunities as &#147;a stockholder of the Company (including as a beneficial owner
through providing instructions to The Depository Trust Company),&#148; it does not identify Opportunities as a stockholder of record. After receiving your request, the Company also reviewed the Company&#146;s list of registered holders and confirmed
that Opportunities was not a stockholder of record of the Company at that time. <B><I>Accordingly, your client&#146;s request for these materials is denied</I></B>. </P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><B>The Poison Pill</B> </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">44. On Wednesday, November&nbsp;24, the Company announced that the Board had unanimously adopted a rights plan in response to Alden&#146;s
proposal. The poison pill will be activated if any person (or any persons acting as a group) acquires 10% (or 20% in the case of certain passive investors)&nbsp;or more of the Company&#146;s outstanding common stock, and expires on November&nbsp;23,
2022. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">45. Thus, within a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">48-hour</FONT> period, notwithstanding the claimed time constraints asserted by
the Company in the November&nbsp;23 Letter, the Director Defendants had time to meet, review, and approve and implement a poison pill, further undermining the Company&#146;s assertion in the November&nbsp;23 Letter that Opportunities&#146; mere
request to send the Forms was a facially &#147;unreasonable&#148; demand. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><B>The Nomination Notice</B> </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">46. On Friday, November&nbsp;26, Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co., in its role as record holder, sent a letter to the Secretary of the Company on behalf of
Opportunities enclosing Opportunities&#146; Nomination Notice for the nominations of three independent director candidates, Colleen B. Brown, Carlos P. Salsas, and John S. Zieser. </P>
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headquarters in Iowa on Friday, November&nbsp;26, 2021. At the headquarters, notwithstanding that it was the nomination deadline, signs on the door indicated that the offices were &#147;Closed for the Holiday&#148; and that Lee&#146;s &#147;office
will be closed beginning at noon on Wednesday November 24<SUP STYLE="font-size:85%; vertical-align:top">th</SUP> and reopen Monday November 29<SUP STYLE="font-size:85%; vertical-align:top">th</SUP>.&#148; The courier delivering the Nomination Notice
left the physical copy outside of Lee&#146;s headquarters, and Opportunities emailed a copy of a photograph evidencing delivery to Mr.&nbsp;Waterman. The same day, Opportunities also separately provided copies of the Nomination Notice to the
Company, by fax and by email. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">48. The Nomination Notice set forth in detail the qualifications and biographies of each of the Nominees,
and the rationale for each Nominees&#146; nomination, and provided all of the information required under Article II, Section&nbsp;2(a) the Bylaws, including: </P> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left" STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">Confirming that each Nominee is a citizen of the United States of America. </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left" STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">Identifying the primary residential and business addresses for the Nominees. </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left" STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">Confirming that none of the Nominees, directly or indirectly, owns beneficially and/or of record, any shares of
the Company, and none of the Nominees has entered into any transactions in the shares of the Company during the past two years. </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left" STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">Confirming that each of the Nominees may be deemed to be a member of a &#147;group&#148; with the other
Participants for the purposes of Section&nbsp;13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act, and such group may be deemed to beneficially own the 371,117 shares of Common Stock beneficially owned in the aggregate by all of the Participants. </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left" STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">Confirming that each of the Nominees has consented to being named as a Nominee in this Notice, being named as a
Nominee in any proxy statement filed by Opportunities or its affiliates in connection with the Solicitation (as defined below) and to serving as a director of the Company if elected. The Consents were attached as Exhibit B to the Nomination Notice.
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left" STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">Identifying a power of attorney executed by each of the Nominees. </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left" STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">Identifying that the Participants entered into a Joint Filing and Solicitation Agreement, dated November&nbsp;26,
2021, and setting forth the terms. </P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left" STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">Confirming the belief that each Nominee presently is, and if elected as a director of the Company, each of the
Nominees would be, an &#147;independent director&#148; within the meaning of the applicable NASDAQ listing standards and pursuant to Section&nbsp;301 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left" STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">Making additional required disclosures. </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Nomination Notice at <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">3-7.</FONT> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">49. Additionally, the Nomination Notice attached as exhibits: (i)&nbsp;notarized letters signed by each Nominee, stating their intention to
serve as a director for the full term of the class, if elected, and consenting to being named as a nominee for director in a proxy statement relating to such election; and (ii)&nbsp;comprehensive and customary director questionnaires completed and
signed by each Nominee, which were in a form substantially similar in scope to the form of questionnaires commonly used in board of director nominations and disclosures. <I>Id.</I> at Exhibit C. </P>
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Nominees completed a questionnaire based off of a form of questionnaire that was provided in a similar situation by the secretary of a publicly-traded newspaper publisher. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">51. The Nomination Notice also contained Opportunities&#146; representations required under Article II, Section&nbsp;2(b)(3)(v)-(vii) of the
Bylaws as Holder, as defined in the Bylaws, including that it is the beneficial owner of the shares and will continue to be a beneficial owner through the 2022 Annual Meeting, and simultaneously identified Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. as the record holder.
<I>Id.</I> at 13. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">52. In addition to the detailed and extensive information provided with respect to the Nominees, the Nomination Notice
offered to provide additional information, as contemplated by the Bylaws, if the Company required such additive information in order to determine the eligibility of any nominee: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We note that the Bylaws provide a mechanism following the delivery of this Notice by which the Company may reasonably request other information
of the Nominees in order to &#147;determine (i)&nbsp;the eligibility of a proposed nominee to serve as a director of the [Company] and (ii)&nbsp;whether such nominee qualifies as an &#145;independent director&#146; or &#145;audit committee financial
expert&#146; under applicable law, securities exchange rule or regulation, or any publicly disclosed corporate governance guideline or committee charter of the [Company].&#148; <B><I>The Nominees </I></B><B><I>would endeavor to promptly complete,
sign and deliver to the Company the Company Questionnaire and the Company Representation and Agreement should the Company provide such form and request they be completed by the Nominees subsequent to the delivery of this Notice</I></B>. </P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><B>The Company&#146;s Purported Rejection of the Nomination Notice</B> </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">53. On Friday, December&nbsp;3, 2021, the Company responded by letter, rejecting the Nomination Notice for alleged procedural deficiencies (the
&#147;December 3 Letter&#148;). The December&nbsp;3 Letter asserts two main reasons for its rejection of the Nomination Notice. <I>First</I>, the Company claimed that, notwithstanding that Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. had submitted the Nomination Notice, the
Nomination Notice was <I>de facto</I> improper because Opportunities&#151;the beneficial owner&#151;was not also the record holder. <I>Id.</I> at <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">1-4</FONT> (&#147;Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. was the record holder of the
shares that Opportunities beneficially owned, but Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. did not make the nominations.&#148;). In other words, under the Company&#146;s interpretation of the Bylaws, no beneficial owner could validly nominate a director when
Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. was the record holder, although such nominations are routinely made through Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co., as Opportunities did here. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">54. <I>Second</I>, the Company argued that because the Nomination Notice does not use the
precise form of questionnaire or written representation and agreement that Lee claims is required, the Nomination Notice is not valid, despite the fact that the Company refused to provide the Forms upon request and Opportunities provided what it
reasonably believed to be all of the information required under the Bylaws, including a comprehensive and customary form of director questionnaire together with an undertaking to provide additive information, including the Company&#146;s Forms when
and if provided by the Company. <I>See id.</I> at <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">5-7.</FONT> Yet the Forms that Lee chides Opportunities for not using were the very Forms that Lee refused to provide on November&nbsp;23 following
Opportunities&#146; written request on November&nbsp;22, Forms that presumably were easily-accessible and which the Company could have promptly sent to Opportunities. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">55. Moreover, and critically, the December&nbsp;3 Letter identifies no substantive information regarding the Nominees that was omitted from
the Nomination Notice, relying instead on a form-over-substance <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">pre-text</FONT> to reject the Notice. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">56. Further, as predicted, , the Company failed to engage with Alden with respect to the proposal, and on Thursday, December&nbsp;9, 2021,
issued a press release announcing that the Board had rejected the proposal. </P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><B>The Company&#146;s Rejection of the Nomination Notice Was Improper</B> </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">57. Rather than neutrally enforcing a standard notice and information provision, the Defendants have improperly rejected the Nomination Notice
and impeded Opportunities ability to comply with the purported obligations under the Bylaws. Lee&#146;s position cannot be reconciled with the plain language of the Company&#146;s Bylaws or bedrock Delaware law. </P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><B>Lee Wrongfully Purports to Impose Requirements Excluding Beneficial Owners from Nominating Directors through
Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co.</B> </P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">58. The Company&#146;s response to the Nomination Notice has been to read the procedural
requirements for submission of a director nomination&#151;to be made by the record holder&#151;as a <I>substantive</I> requirement, namely that only a dual record and beneficial holder can validly nominate a director of the Board. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">59. In the December&nbsp;3 Letter, the Company asserts that the Nomination Notice was defective because it was not made &#147;by any
stockholder of the Corporation entitled to vote at the meeting who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section&nbsp;2 and who is a stockholder of record.&#148; But Lee concedes, as it must, that the record holder for the Company
stock held by Opportunities&#151;Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co.&#151;did, in fact, submit the director nomination pursuant to Article II, Section&nbsp;2(a) of the Bylaws. <I>See, e.g.</I>,<I> </I>December&nbsp;3 Letter at 3 (&#147;The Cede Letter further
indicated that Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. <B><I>delivered</I></B> the purported nomination notice <B><I>by</I></B> Opportunities <I>at the request of</I> [JP Morgan Securities LLC] and <B><I>on behalf of </I></B>Opportunities.&#148; (Emphasis in
original)). Rather than acknowledging that Opportunities complied with the plain terms of the Bylaws, Lee has attempted to impose an additional obligation, not supported by the Bylaws: the record holder and beneficial owner must be the same party in
order for the stockholder to avail itself of its rights under Section&nbsp;2(a). <I>See id.</I> at 4; <I>see also </I>Bylaws, Art. II &#167; 2(a). </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">60. Opportunities complied with the plain terms of the Bylaws. Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co., as the
record holder, timely submitted the director nominations and identified both its role and Opportunities&#146; status as beneficial owner, as required under the Bylaws. <I>See </I>Bylaws, Art. II &#167; 2(b)(3)(i) (requiring the Noticing Stockholder
to set forth &#147;the name and address of the Noticing Stockholder as they appear on the Corporation&#146;s books&#148;). Section&nbsp;2(a) does not impose any requirement that the noticing stockholder also be the beneficial owner, and therefore
Lee improperly rejected the Nomination Notice. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">61. Moreover, even if the Company&#146;s novel theory that any divergence between the
record holder and the beneficial owner eliminates a stockholder&#146;s right to nominate a director to the Board finds textual support in the Bylaws (which it does not), this restriction on stockholder rights stands at odds with decades of settled
Delaware law and practice. Record holders, as Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. did here, frequently act on behalf of the beneficial owners in various contexts within Delaware law. For example, record holders typically will submit appraisal demands on behalf of
beneficial owners. <I>See In re Appraisal of Ancestry.com, Inc.</I>, 2015 WL 66825, at *8 (Del. Ch. Jan. 5, 2015); <I>In re Appraisal of Dell Inc.</I>, 2015 WL 4313206, at *9 (Del. Ch. July&nbsp;13, 2015 <I>revised </I>July&nbsp;30, 2015)
(Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co., as record holder of common stock of Dell Inc., made appraisal demands on behalf of petitioners who were beneficial owners). </P>
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owners, as is clear from Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co.&#146;s submission of the Nomination Notice to Lee. The Company&#146;s interpretation of the Bylaws would impose restrictions on stockholders that cannot be reconciled with well-established practice and
that serve no legitimate corporate purpose. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><B>The Company Cannot Claim a Failure to Comply with the Bylaws when It Refused to Provide the Forms to
Opportunities.</B> </P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">63. As a secondary basis for rejecting the Nomination Notice, the Company contends that the failure
to use Lee&#146;s Forms automatically renders the nominations invalid, without regard to the sufficiency of the information conveyed in the Nomination Notice. December&nbsp;3 Letter at 6 (&#147;[A] condition for submitting a compliant nomination
notice&#151;the provision of a written questionnaire and written representation and agreement in the form provided by the Secretary upon request by a stockholder of record&#151;has not been met, and <B><I>this failure alone renders the Notice
Materials and any purported nomination thereunder invalid under the Bylaws</I></B>.&#148; (Emphasis added)). </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">64. This elevation of form over substance is out of step with Delaware law, and does nothing
to advance corporate interests. To the contrary, like the Company&#146;s proffered interpretation of Article II, Section&nbsp;2(a), it serves little purpose beyond entrenching the Director Defendants, who already have the benefit of a classified
board, and shielding them from facing the stockholders at the ballot box in a free and open contest. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">65. Notably, in the December&nbsp;3
Letter, the Company did not identify <I><U>any</U></I> information, or category of information, required to be provided by a prospective Board nominee that was not included in the Nomination Notice and attached questionnaires. Nor did the Company
identify any unique features of its Forms that would warrant making such forms mandatory for any director nomination. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">66. Instead, the
Company has relied on the Questionnaire Notice Requirement, with its requirement that a stockholder of record request the Forms, and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-day</FONT> period in which the Company may respond, to justify its refusal to
provide such forms. However, the Questionnaire Notice Requirement serves no purpose other than to make more procedurally difficult and/or thwart director nominations by stockholders. </P>
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Notice Requirement can easily be manipulated to exclude director nominations by a stockholder, writing that &#147;the Bylaws permit the Secretary up to 10 days to deliver the form of the Company&#146;s questionnaire to a stockholder of record upon a
valid request, which, among other things, <B><I>provides the Company with time to consider supplementing the questionnaire as needed to account for circumstances at the time</I></B>.&#148; <I>Id.</I> at <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">6-7</FONT>
(emphasis added). But a questionnaire that the Company modifies on an <I>ad hoc</I> basis, &#147;as needed to account for circumstances at the time&#148;&#151;presumably tailored to any specific stockholder&#146;s nomination&#151;is not a
&#147;form&#148; questionnaire, in any sense of the term, nor necessary, because the Company has the right to seek &#147;any such other information as it may reasonably request,&#148; <I>see</I> Bylaws, Art. II &#167; 2(b)(3), and Opportunities
specifically agreed to provide any such information upon the request of the Company. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">68. The Questionnaire Notice Requirement can be a
tool for precluding stockholder nominations outright under certain circumstances and timeframes set forth under the Bylaws. For example, if the Company were to set a date for the annual meeting that is either more than 30 days before or 70 days
after the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">one-year</FONT> anniversary of the preceding year&#146;s annual meeting date, then an immediate <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ten-day</FONT> nomination deadline would be triggered for stockholder
nominations under the Bylaws. Under these circumstances, even if a stockholder of record were to submit the written request for the Forms on the same date as the first public announcement of the date of the annual meeting, the Company could refuse
to provide them until the very last day of the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">ten-day</FONT> nomination period. The </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Questionnaire Notice Requirement should not be a tool for implementing procedural obstacles to stockholder
nominations. Moreover, under this timing, the stockholder would not have time to move shares from Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. to the beneficial owner&#146;s name, a purported prerequisite as shown by the facts here under the Defendants&#146; interpretation
of the Bylaws. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">69. Just as concerning, <I>ad hoc</I> &#147;forms&#148; that can easily be modified at the whims of Company management and
the Board to serve individuals&#146; goals and priorities, rather than to benefit the Company as a whole, have no legitimate corporate purpose. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">70. The type of manipulation that the Questionnaire Notice Requirement can breed is also apparent in the Company&#146;s November&nbsp;22
Letter refusing to provide the requested Forms. Lee gave no meaningful explanation for the refusal to provide them, rather the Company simply claimed that the request was &#147;unreasonable on its face.&#148; November&nbsp;22 Letter at 1. Standard
forms that are maintained on the Company&#146;s servers should be easy to locate and send, and under no circumstances should such a request be &#147;unreasonable on its face.&#148; Only if these Forms do not exist, or would be substantially revised
before sending to Opportunities, would a claim of delay make sense; alternatively, the Company was purposefully withholding the Forms to manufacture an objection to the eventual Nomination Notice. In either event, the Company&#146;s actions, which
Defendants have justified through the Questionnaire Notice Requirement, were an improper attempt to avoid legitimate director nominations. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">71. Despite the Company&#146;s refusal to provide the Forms, the Nomination Notice included
completed questionnaires and representations and agreements satisfying all of the substantive requirements in the Bylaws, for the Nominees. <I>See </I>Nomination Notice at Ex. C. Each Nominee completed and submitted a comprehensive and customary
written questionnaire that is substantially similar in scope to forms of written questionnaires provided by a company&#146;s secretary in like situations, as well as a written representation and agreement that mirrors the language of the Company
requirements set forth in Article II, Section&nbsp;2(b)(4)(ii) of the Bylaws. <I>Id.</I> at 2. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">72. Notably, while the Bylaws also provide
that the Company may reasonably request other information of the Nominees in order to, among other things, assess &#147;the eligibility of a proposed nominee to serve as a director of the [Company],&#148; Art. 2 &#167; 2(b)(3), the Company has never
requested that the questionnaires or written representations and agreements be supplemented or that additional information be provided. Instead, the Company has relied solely on its form-over-substance objection to the Nomination Notice. As there
was no basis for the Company to refuse the Nomination Notice on this&#151;at best&#151;hyper- technical argument, the nominations must now be permitted to be presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Breach of Contract against the Company) </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">73. Plaintiff repeats and realleges each of the foregoing paragraphs as if fully set forth herein. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">74. Under the Company&#146;s Bylaws, the Company is required to acknowledge and accept nominations for elections of directors when that notice
is sent and received by the deadline. <I>See </I>Bylaws, Art. II &#167; 2(a). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">75. The Nomination Notice complied with the Company&#146;s
Bylaws and is valid notice of Plaintiff&#146;s intent to nominate the Nominees for positions as directors, to be voted upon at the Company&#146;s 2022 Annual Meeting. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">76. The Company unjustly and improperly purported to reject the Nomination Notice, in violation of the plain language of the Bylaws and
well-established Delaware law and practice. In so acting, the Company is improperly preventing Plaintiff, as beneficial owner and acting through Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co., as record holder, from proceeding with its Nomination Notice (which was sent in
good faith and with no material discrepancies). Instead, the Company purported to reject the Nomination Notice for <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">pre-textual</FONT> reasons to block Plaintiff from presenting alternative Board candidates to the
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">77. By rejecting the Nomination Notice, the Company has violated the express terms of the
Bylaws and is depriving Plaintiff of its nominating rights. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">78. Alternatively, to the extent that the Company has complied with the plain
terms of the Bylaws, those provisions improperly restrict stockholder rights and impose unreasonable conditions on the ability of stockholders to put forth Nominees to the Board and violate public policy. As written and applied by the Company, the
Bylaws permit the Company to manipulate a purportedly neutral process to subvert stockholder rights and serve only to entrench the present Board. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">79. Plaintiff has no adequate remedy at law. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B><U>COUNT II</U> </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Breach
of Fiduciary Duty Against the Director Defendants) </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">80. Plaintiff repeats and realleges each of the foregoing paragraphs as if fully
set forth herein. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">81. The Director Defendants owe and continue to owe Lee&#146;s stockholders&#151;including Opportunities&#151;the
highest duties of care, loyalty, and good faith. These fiduciary duties preclude the Director Defendants from taking any action to favor their own interests ahead of the interests of the Company and its stockholders. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">82. In breach of their fiduciary duties, the Director Defendants approved the Questionnaire
Notice Requirement in the Bylaws, which place an unreasonable barrier upon stockholders seeking to nominate director candidates by, <I>inter alia</I>, providing (a)&nbsp;that only a stockholder of record may request the Forms; and (b)&nbsp;the
Company may take up to ten days to provide the Forms. The Director Defendants also approved the requirements that prevent beneficial owners (and the broader category of Holders, as defined in the Bylaws), from utilizing Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. to submit
nominations when Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co. is the stockholder of record, because Cede&nbsp;&amp; Co., as opposed to beneficial owners, cannot make certain written representations and agreements. These requirements have no rationale or legitimate corporate
purpose, and are instead designed to thwart nominations and stymie stockholders from exercising their franchise rights. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">83. The Director
Defendants further breached their fiduciary duties of loyalty, good faith and care owed to Plaintiff, a stockholder of the Company, by refusing to provide it with the Company&#146;s Forms under the guise that Plaintiff had not complied with the
Questionnaire Notice Requirement. The Director Defendants could have directed the corporate Secretary to send the Forms to Plaintiff but did not do so, in the interest of protecting their Board seats. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">84. As set forth herein, the Director Defendants further breached their fiduciary duties by wrongfully rejecting the Nomination Notice, in an
apparent act to insulate themselves from an election challenge. The Company is unlawfully preventing Plaintiff as a stockholder from proceeding with its Nominating Notice. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">85. The Director Defendants are acting unlawfully to entrench the current Board members, and
to block Plaintiff from presenting alternative candidates to stockholders, consistent with Plaintiff&#146;s franchise rights. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">86.
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">WHEREFORE, Plaintiff respectfully requests that this Court enter an order as follows: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">A. Declaring that the Bylaws, to the extent they require that only a stockholder of record may obtain a copy of the Company&#146;s Forms and
that the Company can take up to ten days to provide them, and that the nominating stockholder, who must be a stockholder of record, must also submit with the nomination written representations and agreements, are unenforceable; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">B. Finding that the Director Defendants breached their fiduciary duties; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">C. Finding that the Director Defendants breached the Company&#146;s Bylaws; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">D. If the Bylaws are not declared unenforceable, finding that the Nomination Notice complies with the Bylaws; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">E. Declaring that the Nominees are permitted to stand for election at the Company&#146;s 2022 Annual Meeting; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">F. Temporarily and permanently enjoining the Company and its Board from taking any actions to prevent Opportunities from exercising its rights
under the Company&#146;s Bylaws, including but not limited to enjoining the submission of any slate of nominees at the Company&#146;s next annual meeting of stockholder for the election of directors for the Board that does not contain
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Adrienne Marie Ward <BR>Lori Marks-Esterman <BR>OLSHAN FROME WOLOSKY LLP</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">1325 Avenue of the Americas</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">New York, New York 10019 <BR>(212) <FONT
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Richard P. Rollo (#3994)</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Matthew W. Murphy
(#5938)</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">RICHARDS, LAYTON&nbsp;&amp; FINGER, P.A.</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">One Rodney
Square</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">920 North King Street</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Wilmington, Delaware 19801</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(302) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">651-7700</FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><I>Attorneys for Plaintiff Strategic Investment Opportunities LLC</I></P></TD></TR>
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