• Kuramo Capital Mgmt., LLC v. Nile Capital Mgmt., LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-10-29
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor Molina
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce E. Jameson, J. Clayton Athey, John G. Day, Christine N. Chappelear, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Mary S. Thomas, Thomas Law LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Eric A. Veres, S. Michael Blochberger, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 2024-0637-SEM

    Court denied production of records relating to litigation funding arrangements and retainer agreements where plaintiffs had potentially waived such a claim and had failed to show at trial that relevant records or information would be responsive to the request the court ultimately granted.

  • Saunders v. Lightwave Logic, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-29
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: E-Commerce | Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barnaby Grzaslewicz, Albert H. Manwaring, IV, Kirsten A. Zeberkiewicz, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Joseph C. Schoell, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Wilmington, DE; Steven L. Caponi, Matthew B. Goeller, Megan E. Hunt, K&L Gates LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: N23C-05-120 PRW CCLD

    Court declined to apply "inherently unknowable injury" doctrine to negligence and conversion claims arising from corporation's following of state law to escheat shares where plaintiff had ample opportunity to prevent the escheatment.

  • Chai v. Maginn

    Publication Date: 2024-10-15
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Education | Investments and Investment Advisory | Software
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Neil R. Lapinski, Phillip A. Giordano, Madeline R. Silverman, Gordon, Fournaris & Mammarella, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Thomas A. Uebler, Kathleen A. Murphy, Adam J. Waskie, Sarah P. Kaboly, Terisa A. Shoremount, McCollom D’Emilio Smith Uebler LLC, Wilmington, DE; Thad J. Bracegirdle, Sarah T. Andrade, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: 2024-0393-LWW

    Stockholder/director's claims for breach of stockholders' agreement were barred by res judicata, laches, and acquiescence where director served alongside other directors without objection and could have asserted her present claims in a prior action against the other directors.

  • In re Match Group, Inc. Derivative Litig.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-15
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Hanrahan, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Blake Rohrbacher, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: David E. Ross, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; William M. Lafferty, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: 2020-0505-MTZ

    Stockholders could not bring fiduciary claims against purported controller of company's parent corporation without presenting evidence of controller's hard control over the parent's voting power or an exercise of actual control over the company.

  • Mehra v. Teller

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John L. Reed, Peter H. Kyle, Kelly L. Freund, Daniel P. Klusman, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE; Patrick J. Smith, Brian T. Burns, Michael K. Sala, Clark Smith Villazor LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jon E. Abramczyk, D. McKinley Measley, Elizabeth A. Mullin Stoffer, Kirk C. Andersen, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: 2019-0812-KSJM

    Court found that equal sharing provision in parties' LLC agreement had been triggered entitling plaintiff to equal distributions at the subsidiary level by transferring his economic rights to the subsidiary following the holding company's dissolution.

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  • Roth v. Sotera Health Co.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John M. Seaman, G. Mason Thomson, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ryan Q. Keech, K&L Gates LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Matthew B. Goeller, K&L Gates LLP, Wilmington, DE; Carl Alan Roth, Roth Ames LLP, La Habra, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: John P. DiTomo, Lauren K. Neal, Courtney Kurz, Taylor A. Christensen, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 2022-1192-LWW

    Court ruled that company's former LLP agreement's vesting and forfeiture terms for partnership units could be incorporated into restricted stock agreement following company's corporate conversion and exchange of employee's units for restricted stock.

  • Feldman v. Marks

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Consulting | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Brennan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian E. Farnan, Michael Farnan, Rosemary J. Piergiovanni, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stephen Shackelford, Susman Godfrey L.L.P., New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Joe P. Yeager, Margolis Edelstein, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: N21C-09-206 DJB

    Plaintiffs adequately proved claim of defamation where defendant's litigation filings that contained untrue statements had the effect of maligning plaintiffs' reputation and thus could be reasonably understood by a third party as defamatory.

  • In re: Smallhold, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Agriculture | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Goldblatt
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 24-10267 (CTG)

    An opt-out mechanism was insufficient to validate releases of creditors' claims against non-parties in a bankruptcy plan of reorganization where Supreme Court precedent made nonconsensual releases per se illegal and there had to be some affirmative act of assent to make the release consensual.

  • In re Point Inv. Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric D. Schwartz, Daniel B. Butz, Evanthea Hammer, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Paul Werner, A. Jospeh Jay, III, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, LLP, Washington, DC; Edward H. Tillinghast, III, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, LLP, New York, NY for appellant.
    for defendant: Jaco R. Kirkham, Stephen J. Astringer, Kobre & Kim LLP, Wilmington, DE; Adam M. Lavine, John G. Conte, Kobre & Kim LLP, New York, NY; Adriana Riviere-Badell, Evelyn Baltodano Sheehan, Kobre & Kim LLP, Miami, FL for appellee.

    Case Number: 22-10261 (TMH)

    Bankruptcy court appropriately extended automatic stay to foreign main proceeding where permitted by the Bankruptcy Code and under the principles of international comity after the foreign court similarly imposed a stay.

  • ARC Global Inv., II, LLC v. Digital World Acquisition Corp.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-01
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew D. Perri, Daniel E. Kaprow, Elizabeth J. Freud, Alfred P. Dillione, Rae Ra, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Kevin M. Coen, Jacob M. Perrone, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Bradley J. Bondi, D. Scott Carlton, Traci Zeller, Nicholas J. Griepsma, Paul Hastings LLP, Washington, D.C. for defendant.

    Case Number: 2024-0186-LWW

    Court recalculated conversion ratio following business combination where inclusion of issued shares regardless of the circumstances of issuance was consistent with the anti-dilutive purpose of the conversion.