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Publication Date: 2022-09-27
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: A. Thompson Bayliss, John M. Seaman, Eric A. Veres, Daniel J. McBride, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Margaret H. Allen, Yolanda C. Garcia, Angela C. Zambrano, Sidley Austin LLP, Dallas, TX for plaintiff.
for defendant: Michael W. McDermott, Richard I. G. Jones, Jr., David B. Anthony, Zachary J. Schnapp, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2021-0619-JTL
Though the LLC agreement's provisions required declaring the transfer of member interest void ab initio, case law might need to be reconsidered to allow courts of equity to consider equitable defenses to breach of contract claims.
Publication Date: 2022-09-27
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas A. Uebler, Joseph L. Christensen, McCollum D’Emilio Smith Uebler LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff
for defendant: Ryan D. Stottmann, Miranda N. Gilbert, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2021-0406-MTZ
Declaratory judgment action to declare release language in letter of transmittal unenforceable was not ripe where declaratory judgment would provide no benefit to the litigants as the release did not preclude the filing of a fiduciary claim where the release could be asserted as a defense to liability and resolved in that fiduciary action.
Publication Date: 2022-09-27
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce E. Jameson, Corinne Elise Amato, Eric J. Juray, Elizabeth Wang, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Craig Carpenito, Richard H. Walker, Samuel C. Cortina, King & Spalding LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: William M. Lafferty, Kevin M. Coen, Ryan D. Stottmann, Sara Toscano, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kevin R. Shannon, Christopher N. Kelly, Daniel M. Rusk IV, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Elena C. Norman, Paul J. Loughman Lakshmi A. Muthu, Alberto E. Chávez, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2021-0518-JTL
The court could exercise personal jurisdiction over the general counsel/chief legal officer of Delaware LLC who by virtue of that position would materially participate in the company's management and therefore would qualify as an acting manager.
Publication Date: 2022-09-27
Practice Area: Election and Political Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Cook
Attorneys: For plaintiff: M. Jane Brady, Brady Legal Group LLC, Lewes, DE; Charlotte Davis, Noel H. Johnson, Public Interest Legal Foundation, Indianapolis, IN; Julianne E. Murray, Law Offices of Murray, Phillips & Gay, Georgetown, DE for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Allison J. McCowan, Zi-Xiang Shen, Victoria R. Sweeney, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2022-0641-NAC
Court granted in part and denied in part a request for a permanent injunction seeking to enjoin the enactment of two recently passed electoral laws which were to take effect prior to the general election on November 8, 2022.
Publication Date: 2022-09-20
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Software
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Barry, Vivek Upadhya, Grant & Eisenhofer, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Thomas Curry, Tayler D. Bolton, Saxena White P.A., Wilmington, DE; Chad Johnson, Noam Mandel, Desiree Cummings, Jonathan Zweig, Sarah Delaney, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, New York, NY; Jeremy S. Friedman, David Tejtel, Friedman Oster & Tejtel PLLC, Bedford Hills, NY, D. Seamus Kaskela, Kaskela Law LLC, Newton Square, PA; Julia Goldsmith Reiser, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, DC; Richard A. Speirs, Amy Miller, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Raymond J. DiCamillo, Kevin M. Gallagher, Alexander M. Krischik, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Sandra C. Goldstein, Stefan Atkinson, Byron Pacheco, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY; William M. Lafferty, Ryan D. Stottmann, Alexandra M. Cumings, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sameer Advani, Wesley R. Powell, Patricia O. Haynes, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, NY; A. Thompson Bayliss, Stephen C. Childs, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Peter L. Welsh, C. Thomas Brown, Patrick T. Roath, Ropes & Gray LLP, Boston, MA; Edward R. McNicholas, Ropes & Gray LLP, Washington, DC; John L. Reed, Ronald N. Brown, Peter H. Kyle, Kelly L. Freund, Dla Piper LLP, Wilmington, DE; Paul R. Bessette, Michael J. Biles, Daniel M. Wodnicki, King & Spalding LLP, Austin, TX; Benjamin Lee, Benjamin B. Watson, King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, GA, for defendants.
Case Number: 2021-0940-SG
Court granted board of directors' motion to dismiss a claim for breach of loyalty after plaintiff shareholders sued following a cybersecurity attack that led to a substantial drop in the company's stock value.
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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.
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.
Publication Date: 2022-09-13
Practice Area: Deals and Transactions
Industry: E-Commerce | Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Hanrahan, J. Clayton Athey, Corinne E. Amato, Kevin H. Davenport, Jason W. Rigby, Stacey A. Greenspan, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Eric L. Zagar, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP, Radnor, PA for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Blake K. Rohrbacher, Matthew W. Murphy, Sandy Xu, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Maeve O’Connor, Susan R. Gittes, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, NY; William M. Lafferty, John P. DiTomo, Elizabeth A. Mullin, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, DE; Theodore N. Mirvis, Alexandra P. Sadinsky, Canem Ozyildirim, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP, New York, NY; David E. Ross, Adam D. Gold, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Blaire Connelly, Latham & Watkins LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: 2020-0505-MTZ
The court granted a motion to dismiss a complaint challenging a multi-step spinoff initiated by a corporation's controller.
Publication Date: 2022-09-13
Practice Area: Corporate Entities
Industry: Electronics | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marcus E. Montejo, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff;
for defendant: Douglas J. Cummings, DCummings Law, LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2019-0848-PWG
Court overruled master's recommendations for confidentiality for financial records produced under §220 request where company only managed to cite generalized concerns about loss of customers and suppliers, and shareholder had prevailing interest in obtaining valuation of his shares in long-dark company.
Publication Date: 2022-09-06
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Energy
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth J. Nachbar, Susan W. Waesco, Matthew R. Clark, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Antony L. Ryan, Kevin J. Orsini, Michael P. Addis, David H. Korn, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: Rolin P. Bissell, James M. Yoch, Jr., Alberto E. Chávez, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael C. Holmes, John C. Wander, Craig E. Zieminski, Andy E. Jackson, Vinson & Elkins LLP, Dallas, TX for defendants.
Case Number: D69942
Shifting of contingency fee in litigation to recover breakup fee in merger agreement was reasonable where agreement only limited shifted fees to be "reasonable" and contingency fee percentage and supporting lodestar figures were reasonable under the circumstances of the case.
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