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  • Garfield v. Blackrock Mortgage Ventures, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-01-08
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kurt M. Heyman, Aaron M. Nelson, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jason M. Leviton, Joel A. Fleming, Amanda R. Crawford, Block & Leviton LLP, Boston, MA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Kenneth J. Nachbar, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, DE; Deborah S. Birnbach, Jennifer B. Luz, Katherine B. Dacey, Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, MA; Kevin R. Shannon, Berton W. Ashman, Jr., Callan R. Jackson, Potter Andersoon & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; John P. Coffey, Adina C. Levine, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, New York, NY; David E. Ross, S. Michael Sirkin, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D68832

    Corporate restructuring transaction was subject to entire fairness review rather than receiving the benefit of the business judgment rule where two large stockholders formed controller group who received special benefits from the reorganization that ordinary stockholders did not receive.

  • TIBCO Software, Inc. v. nThrive Revenue Sys., LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-12-04
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Corporate Entities
    Industry: Software | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Adams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Josiah R. Wolcott, Connolly Gallagher, LLP, Newark, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Chad S.C. Stover, Barnes & Thornburg, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D68796

    A factual dispute existed regarding whether a party was an agent or otherwise had authority to terminate an agreement. Motion for summary judgment denied.

  • Dieckman v. Regency GP LP

    Publication Date: 2019-11-13
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Energy
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor Bouchard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christine M. Mackintosh, Grant & Eisenhofer P.A., Wilmington, DE; Gregory V. Varallo, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jeroen van Kwawegen, Edward G. Timlin, and Tamara Gavrilova, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: P. Bissell, Tammy L. Mercer, and Benjamin M. Potts, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael C. Holmes, Craig E. Zieminski, Kimberly R. McCoy, and Jeffrey Crough, Vinson & Elkins LLP, Dallas, TX for defendants.
    Case Number: D68767

    Conflicted merger transaction was not entitled to safe harbor protection under one party's limited partnership agreement where one member of the party's conflicts committee was not an independent director and where the false representation of the conflicts committee's independence rendered the proxy statement provided to common unitholders false and misleading.

  • Donnelly v. Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-11-06
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter B. Andrews, Craig J. Springer, and David M. Sborz, Andrews & Springer LLC, Wilmington DE; Randall J. Baron, David. T. Wissbroecker, Christopher H. Lyons, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, CA and Nashville, TN for plaintiff.
    for defendant: David E. Ross and S. Michael Sirkin, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Peter L. Welsh, Christian Reigstad, and Mary Zhou, Ropes & Gray LLP, New York NY for defendant.
    Case Number: D68759

    Stockholder demonstrated entitlement to a Section 220 inspection by alleging facts sufficient to raise an inference that company used their control position to extract a unique benefit from the merger to support stockholder's claim of breach of fiduciary duties.

  • Bandera Master Fund LP v. Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP

    Publication Date: 2019-10-23
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: A. Thompson Bayliss, J. Peter Shindel, Jr., Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Srinivas M. Raju, Blake Rohrbacher, and Matthew D. Perri, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Rolin P. Bissell, Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE; Raniel A. Mason, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Wilmington, DE; Lawrence Portnoy, Charles S. Duggan, Gina Cora, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, NY; Stephen P. Lamb, Andrew G. Gordon, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: D68744

    Unitholders plausibly pled general partner's breach of partnership agreement by alleging general partner failed to follow provisions governing resolution of conflict of interest created by general partner's exercise of call right for publicly traded common units.

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  • Nielsen v. EBTH Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-10-16
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Retail
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: D. McKinley Measley, Lauren Neal Bennett and Barnaby Grzaslewicz, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Joseph C. Weinstein and Sean L. McGrane, Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP, Cleveland, OH for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jonathan M. Stemerman, Elliott Greenleaf P.C., Wilmington, DE; Frances Floriano Goins and John M. Hands, Ulmer & Berne, LLP, Cleveland, OH and Cincinnati, OH for defendant.
    Case Number: D68738

    Corporate officers were entitled to mandatory advancement and fees-on-fees under the terms of their indemnification agree-ments and the company's charter.

  • Finom Mgmt. GMBH v. Celerion Holdco, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-10-02
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher J. Day, Day Law Group, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Joseph M. Donley, Peter Blume and Christopher M. Brubaker, Clark Hill PLC, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Travis S. Hunter, Tyler E. Cragg and Alexandra M. Ewing, Richards Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D68721

    Plaintiffs adequately alleged that defendants engaged in bad faith violations of the parties' redemption agreement, but the court dismissed the remainder of plaintiffs' claim.

  • Eagle Force Holdings, LLC v. Campbell

    Publication Date: 2019-09-11
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Montgomery-Reeves
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank E. Noyes, II, Offit Kurman, P.A., Wilmington, DE, Harold M. Walter and Angela D. Pallozzi, Offit Kurman, P.A., Baltimore, MD for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: David L. Finger, Finger & Slanina, LLC, Wilmington, DE, for defendant.
    Case Number: D68695

    Parties' prior practice of signing draft transaction documents to acknowledge receipt overcame presumption that signature manifested intent to be contractually bound, such that plaintiffs failed to prove defendant's intent to be bound to agreements that provided choice of forum clause.

  • GMF ELCM Fund L.P. v. ELCM HCRE GP LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-08-21
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David E. Ross and Bradley R. Aronstam, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Joshua S. Amsel, Matthew R. Friedenberg, and Thomas G. James, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: David E. Ross and Bradley R. Aronstam, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE for receiver.
    Case Number: D67675

    Judicial dissolution of limited partnership granted where principal manager demonstrated unwillingness or inability to operate business based on repeated refusals to work with court-appointed receiver or comply with court orders.

  • Sciabacucchi v. Salzberg

    Publication Date: 2019-07-24
    Practice Area: Attorney Rates and Arrangements | Corporate Entities
    Industry: Consumer Products | Food and Beverage | Insurance
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kurt M. Heyman and Melissa N. Donimirski, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jason M. Leviton and Joel A. Fleming, Block & Leviton LLP, Boston, MA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: William B. Chandler III, Randy J. Holland, Bradley D. Sorrels, Lindsay Kwoka Faccenda, Boris Feldman and David J. Berger, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Wilmington, DE and Palo Alto, CA for defendants Lake, Anderson, Gurley, Hansen, McCollam, Wood, Ahuja, Carolan, Hastings, Hendricks, Hunt, Leff, Rothrock and nominal defendants Stitch Fix, Inc. and Roku, Inc. Catherine G. Dearlove and Sarah T. Andrade, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Michael G. Bon-giorno and Timothy J. Perla, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, NY and Boston, MA for defendants Salz-berg, Bradley, Cool, Fox, Goodman, Hirshberg, Kelley and nominal defendant Blue Apron Holdings, Inc.
    Case Number: D68642

    The attorney fees sought by plaintiff were reasonable, so the court ordered each of the nominal defendants to pay one-third of the award.