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Publication Date: 2024-02-05
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Software
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Blake Rohrbacher, John D. Hendershot, Sandy Xu, Morgan R. Harrison, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Kira N. Lum, Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Jesse L. Noa, Tyler E. Cragg, Andrew Moshos, Hannah L. Paxton, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2023-0327-MTZ
Buyers in corporate acquisition adequately pled fraud claims where acquisition agreement expressly stated that seller had not changed its accounting practices even though seller's owners expressly accelerated the collection of accounts receivable, which made attached financials inaccurate.
Publication Date: 2024-02-05
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas W. Briggs, Jr., Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Laura D. Smolowe, John M. Gildersleeve, Sara H. Worth, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Michael A. Barlow, Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Steven G. Madison, Joseph Sarles, William Pilon, Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendants.
Case Number: 2022-0415-PAF
Court affirmed arbitration award where defendants failed to present evidence sufficient to show that the arbitral panel's interpretation of the parties' agreements was palpably incorrect.
Publication Date: 2024-02-05
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin H. Davenport, John G. Day, Jason W. Rigby, Prickett, Jones & Elliot P.A., Wilmington, DE; R. Bruce McNew, Cooch & Taylor P.A., Wilmington, DE; Christopher H. Lyons, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Wilmington; DE; Randall J. Baron, Rick T. Atwood, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, CA; Brett Middleton, Johnson Fistel, LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: Stephen E. Jenkins, Richard D. Heins, Ashby & Geddes, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Tariq Mundiya, Sameer Advani, Richard Li, M. Annie Houghton-Larsen, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: 2020-1061-JTL
Court imposed sanctions in the form of a factual presumption on a key issue, which defendants could only rebut with clear and convincing evidence, after defendants admittedly took no action to preserve electronically stored information in response to litigation hold notices.
Publication Date: 2024-01-29
Practice Area: Corporate Entities
Industry: Education
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin M. Coen, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Jeffrey J. Lyons, Baker & Hostetler LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2023-0813-MTZ
Court declined to enter summary judgment where there was a genuine issue of material fact as to whether plaintiffs had provided valid consent to the elimination/revocation of their vested advancement rights under the companies' operating agreements upon the amendment/restatement of those agreements.
Publication Date: 2024-01-29
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Biotechnology | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
Attorneys: For plaintiff: C. Barr Flinn, M. Paige Valeski, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Peter J. Walsh, Jr., Michael A. Pittenger, Justin T. Hymes, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
for defendant: A. Thompson Bayliss, Eric A. Veres, Michael T. Manuel, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2023-1045-PAF
Court struck pleadings based on confidential corporate information where information was supplied by director nominated by stockholder although the stockholder did not have a contractual right to designate the director and the director did not serve as the stockholder's fiduciary on the board.
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Publication Date: 2024-01-22
Practice Area: Real Estate
Industry: Federal Government | Real Estate
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Chancellor Mitchell
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paula H. Smith, Newark, DE, petitioner pro se.
for defendant: Melanie J. Thompson, CoraAnn M. Foley, Orlans PC, Wilmington, DE for respondent.
Case Number: 2023-0653-LM
Adverse possession claim failed where petitioner had not occupied the property for at least 20 years.
Publication Date: 2024-01-22
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher B. Chuff, Joanna J. Cline, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Wilmington, DE; A. Christopher Young, Erica H. Dressler, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiff.
for defendant: Blake Rohrbacher, Matthew D. Perri, Morgan R. Harrison, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Joseph M. McLaughlin, Anthony C. Piccirillo, Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett LLP, New York, NY for defendant.
Case Number: 2018-0907-JTL
Company erred in submitting legal issues to its appraiser that fell outside the scope of the appraiser's limited authority to resolve legal issues concerning the company's operating agreement, as the appraiser was an expert rather than an arbitrator with plenary authority.
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: 2024-01-15
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Biotechnology | Pharmaceuticals
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John M. Seaman, Eliezer Y. Feinstein, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Michael A. Pittenger, William R. Denny, Matthew F. Davis, Nicholas D. Mozal, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: C.A. No. 2023-0879-LWW
Court denied injunction of corporate annual meeting pending appeal where delaying the meeting could be inequitable to the company and any prejudice plaintiff might suffer in the absence of injunctive relief was partially self-inflicted.
Publication Date: 2024-01-08
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Curry, Tayler D. Bolton, Saxena White P.A., Wilmington, DE; David Wales, Saxena White P.A., White Plains, NY; Adam Warden, Saxena White P.A., Boca Raton, FL; Peter B. Andrews, Craig J. Springer, David M. Sborz, Andrew J. Peach, Jackson E. Warren, Jacob D. Jeifa, Wilmington, DE, Andrews & Springer LLC for plaintiff.
for defendant: Garrett B. Moritz, S. Reiko Rogozen, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Steven M. Farina, George A. Borden, Brian T. Gilmore, Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC; William M. Lafferty, Ryan D. Stottmann, Rachel R. Tunney, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Tariq Mundiya, Jeffrey B. Korn, Richard Li, Ciara A. Sisco, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: 2022-0846-MTZ
Plaintiff failed to plead demand futility for derivative complaint where controller's ability to remove board members by itself could not establish a lack of independence and a majority of the board's financial ties did not prevent them from exercising independent judgment.
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