• McGoveran v. Amazon Web Serv., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-11-12
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | E-Commerce | Software
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Bibas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alexander L. Braitberg, Andrew D. Schlichter, Joel Rohlf, Nathan D. Stump, Peter Cosgrove, Schlichter Bogard LLP, St. Louis, MO; David T. Crumplar, Jacobs & Crumplar, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jody C. Barillare, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ari M. Selman, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, New York, NY; Elizabeth Herrington, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Chicago, IL; Jordan McCrary, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Raechel K. Kummer, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, Washington, DC, attorneys for defendant.

    Case Number: 1:20-cv-01399-SB

    Court dismissed claim under Illinois Biometric Privacy Act where majority of alleged conduct occurred outside Illinois and defendant was not the party responsible for the alleged voiceprinting.

  • Abramowski v. Nuvei Corp.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-29
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Derrick B. Farrell, Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP, Wilmington, DE; Javier Bleichmar, Evan A. Kubota, Thayne Stoddard, Bleichmar Fonti & Auld LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Kevin M. Cohen, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Brian M. Burnovski, Matthew Cormack, Chui-Lai Cheung, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: 23-965-GBW

    Plaintiffs were not entitled to relief where their earnout shares were subject to forfeiture upon a change in control below a certain per share price, and defendants' gaining majority control upon expiration of the tender offer triggered the forfeiture provision.

  • In re: TransUnion Derivative Stockholder Litig.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-15
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Federal Government
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel L. Closic, John G. Day, Seth T. Ford, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Laurence Paskowitz, The Paskowitz Law Firm P.C., Rego Park, NY; Emily Komlossy, Komlossy Law, P.A., Hollywood, FL; Frederic S. Fox, Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP, New York, NY; Matthew M. Houston, Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP, New York, NY; D. Seamus Kaskela, Adrienne Bell, Kaskela Law LLC, Newtown Square, PA; Alfred G. Yates, Law Office of Alfred G. Yates, Jr., P.C., Pittsburgh, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Kevin M. Gallagher, Spencer V. Crawford, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Sandra C. Goldstein, Victoria J. Ryan, Mike Rusie, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: 2022-1103-LWW

    Court dismissed derivative complaint for lack of demand futility where board's minor disagreements with regulators over the terms of a consent order did not rise to a willful disregard of the law or failure of oversight to constitute a breach of the duty of loyalty.

  • Doe v. Int'l Fin. Corp.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-15
    Practice Area: Class Actions
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Agriculture
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Fallon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Misty A. Seemans, Office of the Public Defender, Wilmington, DE; Marco Simons, Richard Herz, Marissa Vahlsing, Bejamin Hoffman, EarthRights International, Washington, DC; Jonathan Kaufman, Law Office of Jonathan Kaufman, New York, NY; Judith Brown Chomsky, Law Offices of Judith Brown Chomsky, Elkins Park, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Susan Hannigan Cohen, Travis S. Hunter, Alexandra M. Ewing, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Jeffrey T. Green, Green Law Chartered, Bethesda, MD; Marisa S. West, Sidley Austin LLP, Washington, DC for defendant.

    Case Number: 17-1494-JFB-SRF

    Court approved class action settlement on behalf of farmers where most of the settlement funds went to fund community programs for class members, who constituted economically disadvantaged farmers in developing countries.

  • Ravindran v. GLAS Trust Co. LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Education | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph B. Cicero, Ryan M. Lindsay, Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sheron Korpus, David M. Max, Sondra D. Grigsby, Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, New York, NY for appellants.
    for defendant: Brock E. Czeschin, Susan Hannigan Cohen, Nicole M. Henry, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Lauren K. Neal, Elizabeth A. Mullin Stoffer, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.

    Case Number: 463, 2023

    Although appellants raised the parties' contract's forum selection clause, they failed to explicitly argue that a non-signatory litigant was bound to the clause and thus waived the issue on appeal.

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  • In re: AIG Fin. Prods. Corp.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-10
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-11309-MFW

    No error in declining dismissal of bankruptcy petition where debtor was balance sheet insolvent and reasonably anticipated filing for bankruptcy absent reorganization.

  • L-5 Healthcare Partners, LLC v. Alphatec Holdings, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-03
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Biotechnology | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Cook
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William M. Lafferty, D. McKinley Measley, Thomas P. Will, Alexandra M. Cumings, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Antonio Yanez, Jr., Brady Sullivan, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, NY; Alexander L. Cheney, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, San Francisco, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Philip A. Rovner, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Krista M. Enns, Edward C. Wipper, Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP, New York, NY for defendant.

    Case Number: 2019-0412-NAC

    Court enforced contractual specific remedy provision where breaching party offered no persuasive argument for disregarding the clause and ordered the breaching party to perform at the value the warrant to purchase shares had at the time of its breach.

  • In re: AmeriFirst Fin. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-08-27
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Horan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 23-11240 (TMH)

    Court authorized unsecured creditors committee to pursue fraudulent transfer claims against first-priority secured creditor where it allegedly forced debtor to concede financial control that the secured creditor used to obtain potentially avoidable transactions.

  • In the Matter of the Niki & Darren Irrevocable Trust

    Publication Date: 2024-08-06
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2019-0302-SG

    Successor beneficiary of trust successfully challenged purported decanting of trust corpus into a new trust where the trust did not give trustees the authority to invade trust corpus, a necessary power to decant trust assets under Delaware law.

  • Elad v. Truist Bank

    Publication Date: 2024-07-02
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Legal Services | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Williams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph B. Elad, Claymont, DE, pro se plaintiff.
    for defendant: Brittany M. Giusini, Ballard Spahr LLP, Wilmington, DE; Lorin Huerta, Deputy Attorney General, Delaware Department of Justice, Wilmington, DE; Helene Elizabeth Episcopo, New Castle County Office of Law, New Castle, DE; Chase N. Miller, McCabe Weisberg & Conway P.C., Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: 23-1360-GBW

    Court dismissed complaint challenging state court foreclosure proceedings where defendants were entitled to absolute judicial or quasi-judicial immunity or were not acting under color of state law for purposes of a §1983 claim.