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Publication Date: 2024-08-13
Practice Area: Insurance Law
Industry: Biotechnology | Insurance | Pharmaceuticals
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Cook
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen A. Jacobs, Megan W. Cascio, Courtney Kurz, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Laurie Carr Mims, Benjamin D. Rothstein, Candice Mai Khanh Nguyen, Melissa Cornell, Catherine C. Porto, Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP, San Francisco, CA for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Michael A. Weidinger, Megan Ix Brison, Pinckney, Weidinger, Urban & Joyce LLC, Wilmington, DE; Elizabeth Sandza, Richard Sandza, Sandza Law, PLLC, Washington, DC for defendant.
Case Number: 2021-0694-NAC
Officer was obligated to reimburse corporation for advancement costs issued in connection with officer's criminal prosecution for actions taken in the course of his duties when that prosecution culminated in his conviction, precluding him from asserting good faith entitlement to indemnification under the Delaware General Corporation Law.
Publication Date: 2024-08-13
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Pharmaceuticals
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Cook
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John G. Harris, Halloran Farkas + Kittila LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Stephen C. Norman, Jaclyn C. Levy, Emma K. Diver, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2022-1053-NAC
Court denied motion to vacate judgment dismissing action to enforce information rights on res judicata grounds where existence of underlying clinical trial data had been known to parties in prior action, where they could have sued to enforce their information rights.
Publication Date: 2024-07-16
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Biotechnology | Chemicals and Materials | Software
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Cook
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tiffany Geyer Lydon, Philip Trainer, Jr., Ashby & Geddes, P.A. Wilmington, DE; Lisa C. Solbakken, Arkin Solbakken LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: Steven L. Becton, II, David J. Margules, Jessica C. Watt, Ballard Spahr LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2022-0876-NAC
Under the right-of-control test, plaintiff qualified as employee of defendant's subsidiary rather than defendant where subsidiary controlled plaintiff's compensation, determined the terms and conditions of his employment, and supervised his work.
Publication Date: 2024-07-09
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Software
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Cook
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory V. Varallo, Andrew E. Blumberg, Daniel E. Meyer, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ned Weinberger, Mark Richardson, Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP, Wilmington, DE; David Schwartz, John Vielandi, Labaton Keller Sucharow, New York, NY; Aaron T. Morris, Leonid Kandinov, Andrew W. Robertson, Morris Kandinov LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Edward B. Micheletti, Sarah R. Martin, Ryan M. Lindsay, Lauren M. Griffith, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2022-1073-NAC
Court dismissed former stockholder's fiduciary duty claim arising from breach of merger agreement leading to reduced merger consideration where the reduced price still provided a premium over the stock price and the stockholders approved the merger in an informed vote.
Publication Date: 2024-07-02
Practice Area: Business Torts
Industry: Health Care
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Cook
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael T. Manuel, John M. Seaman, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Margaret F. England, Michael Van Gorder, Gellert Seitz Busenkell & Brown LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2023-1062-NAC
Court declined to dismiss fiduciary claims where defendant availed himself of Delaware law by becoming a manager of a Delaware LLC pursuant to an LLC agreement that expressly imposed fiduciary duties on defendant.
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Publication Date: 2024-06-25
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Cargo and Shipping | Insurance | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Cook
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew H. Sauder Dailey, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Rebecca L. Butcher, Jennifer L. Cree, Howard W. Robertson IV, Landis Rath & Cobb LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2023-0589-NAC
Failure to follow written notice requirements to exercise investment option was waived where defendants acted to delay or obstruct plaintiff's efforts to exercise the option despite multiple oral notices of intent to exercise.
Publication Date: 2024-06-18
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Accounting
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Cook
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas P. Will, Rachel R. Tunney, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Richard T. Marooney, Emma S. Nguyen, King & Spalding LLP, New York, NY; Jeffrey S. Rosenberg, King & Spalding LLP, Washington, DC for plaintiff.
for defendant: Nicholas J. Rohrer, Lakshmi A. Muthu, Alex B. Haims, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Christina Golden Ademola, Morrison & Foerster LLP, New York, NY; Robert W. May, Michael Komorowski, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA for defendants.
Case Number: 2023-0371-NAC
Court found no need for judicial interpretation where parties' dispute over working capital calculation merely involved a GAAP issue, and thus the dispute was properly resolved by an independent accountant under the parties' contractual dispute resolution provision.
Publication Date: 2024-06-03
Practice Area: Contracts
Industry: Biotechnology | Distribution and Wholesale
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Cook
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ethan H. Townsend, Daniel T. Menken, Ryan D. Konstanzer, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Kelly A. Green, Jason Z. Miller, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2023-1189-NAC
Court denied reargument on cross-motions for injunctive relief where movant advanced implausible interpretation of the parties' contract and where the court reasonably declined to impose the implied covenant of good faith in exercising contractual discretion between sophisticated parties.
Publication Date: 2024-01-15
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Electronics | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Cook
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bradley R. Aronstam, R. Garrett Rice, Holly E. Newell, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Brian M. Burnovski, Andrew Ditchfield, Pascale Bibi, Nikolaus J. Williams, Marie Killmond, Danielle Mullery, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
for defendant: William M. Lafferty, Ryan D. Stottmann, Lauren K. Neal, Alec Hoeschel, Grant E. Michl, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Hallie B. Levin, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, New York, NY; Timothy Perla, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, Boston, MA; William Savitt, Jonathan M. Moses, Elaine Golin, Graham W. Meli, Ryan A. McLeod, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY; Eric Seiler, Lance J. Gotko, Jason Rubinstein, David J. Ranzenhofer, Sofie Syed, Friedman Kaplan Seiler, Adelman & Robbins LLP, New York, NY; Kurt M. Heyman, Elizabeth A. DeFelice, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2023-0382-NAC
Majority owner's intentional acts to remove founders from the company to eliminate their right to designate board members materially interfered with those rights in violation of the parties' stockholders' agreement's "reasonable efforts" clause.
Publication Date: 2023-07-03
Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Cook
Attorneys: For plaintiff: C. Barr Flinn, James M. Yoch, Jr., M. Paige Valeski, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Brock E. Czeschin, Angela Lam, John M. O’Toole, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Patricia L. Enerio, Aaron M. Nelson, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; John M. Lundin, Niall D. Ó Murchadha, Cynthia L. Botello, Lundin PLLC, New York, NY; John A. Sensing, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 12077-NAC
Adverse judgment in related action between the parties did not compel dismissal of plaintiff's aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty and unjust enrichment claims where those claims went beyond the scope of the intercreditor agreement that another state's court concluded precluded plaintiff from recovering for default on its note.
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