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  • Anderson v. Magellan Health, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-17
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory | Legal Services
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan M. Ernst, Bielli & Klauder, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Michael A. Rogovin, Weiss Law, Atlanta, GA for plaintiff
    for defendant: Paul J. Lockwood, Arthur R. Bookout, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: 2021-0202-KSJM

    Supplemental proxy disclosures that were only marginally helpful to shareholders and were not clearly material to their analysis only supported a minimal award of legal fees and costs to plaintiff stockholder.

  • City of Coral Springs Police Officers' Pension Plan v. Dorsey

    Publication Date: 2023-05-23
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | E-Commerce | Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Curry, Tayler D. Bolton, Saxena White P.A., Wilmington, DE; David Wales, Sara DiLeo, Saxena White P.A., White Plains, NY; Adam Warden, Jonathan Lamet, Saxena White P.A., Boca Raton, FL for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Raymond J. DiCamillo, Kevin M. Gallagher, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Colin B. Davis, Katie Beaudin, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Irvine, CA; Brian M. Lutz, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, San Francisco, CA; Lissa M. Percopo, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, DC for defendants.
    Case Number: 2022-0091-KSJM

    Stockholder failed to plead demand futility where transaction committee who approved acquisition of failing company did not act in bad faith and therefore would not be subject to a substantial risk of personal liability for the acquisition.

  • LPPAS Representative, LLC v. ATH Holding Co., LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-05-16
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Federal Government | Health Care | Insurance
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelly L. Freund, Michelle Morgan, DLA Piper LLP, Wilmington, DE; A. Thompson Bayliss, E. Wade Houston, Peter C. Cirka, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Kevin M. Coen, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Thomas Uebler, McCollum D’Emilio Smith Uebler LLC, Wilmington, DE; Glenn M. Kurtz, Elizabeth Stainton, White & Case LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: 2020-0241-KSJM

    Where indemnification provision in company purchase agreement gave sellers the right to participate in the defense of third-party claims brought by government regulators, purchasers breached those rights by unilaterally negotiating a tolling agreement with regulators.

  • Mehra v. Teller

    Publication Date: 2023-03-14
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Consumer Products
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John L. Reed, Peter H. Kyle, Kelly L. Freund, DLA Piper LLP, Wilmington, DE; Patrick J. Smith, Brian T. Burns, Smith Zillazor LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jon E. Abramczyk, D. McKinley Measley, Alexandra Cumings, Elizabeth A. Mullin, Sebastian Van Oudenallen, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: 2019-0812-KSJM

    Although LLC agreement entitled member to continued economic distribution rights after Holdco distributed the shares it held in its subsidiary, the subsidiary was not an indispensable party where its manager and preferred members were already parties to the action and had authority to amend the subsidiary's LLC agreement.

  • Crispo v. Musk

    Publication Date: 2022-10-25
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: E-Commerce | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Hanrahan, Samuel L. Closic, John G. Day, Robert B. Lackey, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Max Huffman, Joseph A. Pettigrew, Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law LLP, San Diego, CA; Scott R. Jacobsen, Jing-Li Yu, Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Edward B. Micheletti, Lauren N. Rosenello, Ryan M. Lindsay, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Wilmington, DE; Alex Spiro, Andrew J. Rossman, Christopher D. Kercher, Silpa Maruri, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: 2022-0666-KSJM

    Stockholder could not assert breach of merger agreement seeking specific performance where stockholder was not a party to the merger agreement and the terms of the agreement expressly disclaimed any third-party beneficiary status for stockholder.

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  • Twitter, Inc. v. Musk

    Publication Date: 2022-09-27
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: E-Commerce | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter J. Walsh, Jr., Kevin R. Shannon, Christopher N. Kelly, Mathew A. Golden, Callan R. Jackson, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Brad D. Sorrels, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Wilmington, DE; William Savitt, Bradley R. Wilson, Sarah K. Eddy, Ryan A. McLeod, Anitha Reddy, Noah B. Yavitz, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Edward B. Micheletti, Lauren N. Rosenello, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Wilmington, DE; Alex Spiro, Andrew J. Rossman, Christopher D. Kercher, Silpa Maruri, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: 2022-0613-KSJM

    Corporate CEO had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his work email accounts where the evidence demonstrated that company officials could only access the CEO's accounts with his express permission or as otherwise legally required.

  • In re SwervePay Acquisition, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-09-13
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Investments and Investment Advisory | Software
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter J. Walsh, Jr., Nicholas D. Mozal, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Orion Armon, Cooley LLP, Denver, CO; Luke Cadigan, Cooley LLP, Boston, MA; Alexandra Leeper, Cooley LLP, Palo Alto, CA; Katelyn Kang, Cooley LLP, New York, NY; Bradley Levison, Carrie A. Herschman, Herschman Levison Hobfall PLLC, Chicago, IL for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: A. Thompson Bayliss, Stephen C. Childs, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; David B. Hennes, Adam M. Harris, Alexander B. Simkin, Ropes & Gray LLP, New York, NY; Sarah M. Samaha, Ropes & Gray LLP, Washington, DC for defendants.
    Case Number: 2021-0447-KSJM

    Fraud claim arising from acquisition was not dismissed where sellers plausibly alleged that buyers overinflated the amount of monetizable revenue in the buyers' pipeline, which induced sellers into the transaction on the understanding they could hit contractual milestones for earnout payments.

  • In Re Carvana Co. Stockholders Litig.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-13
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: E-Commerce | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christine M. Mackintosh, Rebecca A. Musarra, Grant & Eisenhofer P.A., Wilmington, DE; Ned Weinberger, Labaton Sucharow LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jason M. Leviton, Joel A. Fleming, Lauren Godles Milgroom, Amanda R. Crawford, Block & Leviton LLP, Boston, MA; Domenico Minerva, John Vielandi, David MacIsaac, Labaton Sucharow LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: David E. Ross, Adam D. Gold, R. Garrett Rice, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Brian M. Lutz, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, San Francisco, CA; Colin B. Davis, Katie Beaudin, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Irvine, CA; John L. Reed, Ronald N. Brown III, Peter H. Kyle, Kelly L. Freund, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE, for defendants.
    Case Number: 2020-0415-KSJM

    Court denied defendant's motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction finding that defendant was the majority stockholder and controller over the company at the time the forum selection clause was incorporated into the articles of incorporation.

  • HUMC Holdco, LLC v. MPT of Hoboken TRS, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-08-16
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Busenkell, Margaret F. England, Bradley P. Lehman, Gellert Scali Busenkell & Brown LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Patricia L. Enerio, Jamie L. Brown, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Christopher J. Sullivan, Nutter, McClennan & Fish LLP, New York, NY; Thomas A. Uebler, Joseph Christensen, McCollom D’Emilio Smith Uebler LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69919

    Laches barred contract, fraud, and waste claims arising from the payment of management fees where rejection of claimant's request for books/records/information meant that it could no longer be "blamelessly ignorant" of any alleged wrongdoing and therefore the running of the limitations period was triggered.

  • In re Carvana Co. Stockholders Litig.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-12
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Automotive | E-Commerce | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nathan A. Cook, Block & Leviton LLP, Wilmington, DE; Christine M. Mackintosh, Rebecca A. Musarra, Grant & Eisenhofer P.A., Wilmington, DE; Ned Weinberger, Labaton Sucharow LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jason M. Leviton, Joel A. Fleming, Lauren Godles Milgroom, Amanda R. Crawford, Block & Leviton LLP, Boston, MA; Domenico Minerva, John Vielandi, David MacIsaac, Labaton Sucharow LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: David E. Ross, Adam D. Gold, R. Garrett Rice, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Brian M. Lutz, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, San Francisco, CA; Colin B. Davis, Katie Beaudin, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Irvine, CA; John L. Reed, Ronald N. Brown, III, Peter H. Kyle, Kelly L. Freund, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69879

    Stockholders sufficiently pled director conflict and lack of independence by alleging numerous personal and professional ties stretching back decades between the directors and the company's controlling family.