Dell Technologies Inc. has entered into what’s likely the largest shareholder settlement ever recorded in the Court of Chancery, agreeing Wednesday to pay $1 billion in cash rather than go to trial next month.

If approved, the settlement would be nearly four times what shareholders recovered in 2015 in a derivative action involving Activision Blizzard Inc., which at $275 million is the largest shareholder settlement approved in Delaware.

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