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Publication Date: 2020-02-26
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Manufacturing
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter B. Andrews, Craig J. Springer and David M. Sborz, Andrews & Springer LLC, Wilmington, DE; Jeremy S. Friedman and David F.E. Tejtel, Friedman Oster & Tejtel PLLC, Bedford Hills, NY; D. Seamus Kaskela, Kaskela Law LLC, Newtown Square, PA for plaintiff.
for defendant: Gregory P. Williams and Brock E. Czeschin, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Rachelle Silverberg, Caitlin A. Donovan and Drew C. Harris, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY for defendants Metcalf, Riley, Affeldt, Kremer, Martinez, Ball, Forbes, Holland and nominal defendant NCI Building Systems. David J. Teklits and Thomas P. Will, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Shannon Rose Selden, Susan R. Gittes and Zachary H. Saltzman, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, NY for defendants Sleeper, VanArsdale, Zrebiec, Berges and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.
Case Number: D68892
Plaintiff alleged sufficient facts that one of the defendants was a controlling shareholder. The court dismissed several individual defendants based on an exculpation clause, but it declined to dismiss claims as to other individual defendants.
Publication Date: 2020-02-19
Practice Area: Consumer Protection
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Connolly
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Kriner, Jr., Vera G. Belger, Chimicles & Tikellis LLP, Wilmington, DE; Steven A. Schwartz, Chimicles & Tikellis LLP, Haverford, PA; Franklin D. Azar, H. Zachary Balkin, Paul R. Wood, Jonathan S. Parrott, Franklin D. Azar & Associates P.C., Aurora, CO; Gordon W. Netzorg, Sherman & Howard LLC, Denver, CO for plaintiff.
for defendant: Patricia R. Urban, Pinckney, Weidinger, Urban & Joyce LLC, Greenville, DE; James F. Jorden, Waldemar J. Pflepsen, Jr., W. Glenn Merten, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath, Washington, DCs for defendants.
Case Number: D68880
Employee investment plan recordkeeper was not an Employee Retirement Income Security Act fiduciary in setting the fee schedule because it had no existing relationship with the plan or its participants, but had fiduciary duties in preparing regulatory disclosures.
Publication Date: 2020-02-12
Practice Area: Corporate Entities
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Manufacturing
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Valihura
Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Craig Martin and Kelly L. Freund, DLA Piper LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
for defendant: John P. DiTomo, Ryan D. Stottmann, and Coleen W. Hill, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.
Case Number: D68872
Chancery court erred in applying foreign law when defendants failed to meet their burden to establish the law, and thus erred in ruling that a forum clause was mandatory rather than permissive, since the clause was permissive under the applicable Delaware law.
Publication Date: 2020-01-29
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Valihura
Attorneys: For plaintiff: William M. Lafferty, D. McKinley Measley, and Thomas P. Will, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Tariq Mundiya, Sameer Advani, Alexander L. Cheney, and Brittany M. Wagonheim, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, NY for appellants.
for defendant: Carmella P. Keener, Rosenthal, Monhait & Goddess, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Carol S. Shahmoon and Gregory E. Keller, Shahmoon Keller PLLC, New York, NY for appellee.
Case Number: D68855
Stockholder presenting dissident slate of board nominees was not entitled to injunctive relief where, although trusts' requests for additional information was overbroad, the stockholder's failure to timely respond as required by the bylaws precluded its entitlement to relief.
Publication Date: 2020-01-29
Practice Area: Securities Litigation
Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Noreika
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy R. Dudderar and Jonathan A. Choa, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; David J. Jordan and Michael R. Menssen, Stoel Rives LLP, Salt Lake City, UT for plaintiff.
for defendant: Robert S. Saunders and Jeffrey Geier, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, Wilmington, DE and New York, NY for defendant.
Case Number: D68858
Plaintiffs failed to satisfy the heightened pleading standard with respect to their fraud and securities claims, and they did not allege a fiduciary relationship in connection with the negligent representation claim.
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Publication Date: 2020-01-22
Practice Area: Business Torts
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Software
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Davis
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Case Number: D68847
Limitations period tolled under discovery rule where broker did not connect its alleged injury to defendants' purported tortious conduct until defendants had to publicly disclose documents that allegedly showed defendants' efforts to block plaintiff broker out of the proposed transaction.
Publication Date: 2020-01-15
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Food and Beverage | Investments and Investment Advisory | Retail
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel Friedlander, Jeffrey M. Gorris and Christopher P. Quinn, Friedlander & Gorris, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Randall J. Baron and Christopher H. Lyons, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, CA for plaintiff.
for defendant: Rudolf Koch, Matthew D. Perri and John M. O’Toole, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Adam L. Sisitsky, Lavinia M. Weizel, Robert I. Bodian and Scott A. Rader, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., New York, NY and Boston, MA for independent director defendants. William B. Chandler III, Bradley D. Sorrels, Lindsay K. Faccenda and Daniyal M. Iqbal, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Wilmington, DE for defendant Duggan. Patricia L. Enerio, Jamie L. Brown and Gillian L. Andrews, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzell LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant Anicetti. Kevin G. Abrams, J. Peter Shindel, Jr. and Matthew L. Miller, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Matthew A. Schwartz and Joshua S. Levy, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY for J.P. Morgan defendants. William M. Lafferty, S. Mark Hurd, Thomas W. Briggs, Jr., Richard Li and Elizabeth A. Mullin, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stuart W. Gold and Richard W. Clary, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY for defendant Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. Kevin R. Shannon, Matthew F. Davis and Nicholas S. Prust, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jonathan Rosenberg and Abby F. Rudzin, O’Melveny & Myers LLP, New York, NY for Apollo defendants. John L. Reed, Peter H. Kyle and David Clarke, Jr., DLA Piper LLP, Wilmington, DE and Washington, DC for Berry defendants.
Case Number: D68842
The court granted defendant directors' motions to dismiss.
Publication Date: 2020-01-08
Practice Area: Corporate Entities
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kurt M. Heyman, Aaron M. Nelson, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jason M. Leviton, Joel A. Fleming, Amanda R. Crawford, Block & Leviton LLP, Boston, MA for plaintiff.
for defendant: Kenneth J. Nachbar, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, DE; Deborah S. Birnbach, Jennifer B. Luz, Katherine B. Dacey, Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, MA; Kevin R. Shannon, Berton W. Ashman, Jr., Callan R. Jackson, Potter Andersoon & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; John P. Coffey, Adina C. Levine, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, New York, NY; David E. Ross, S. Michael Sirkin, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: D68832
Corporate restructuring transaction was subject to entire fairness review rather than receiving the benefit of the business judgment rule where two large stockholders formed controller group who received special benefits from the reorganization that ordinary stockholders did not receive.
Publication Date: 2019-12-25
Practice Area: Class Actions
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
Judge: District Judge Andrews
Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. Felice, Gregory Y. Porter, Patrick Muench and Ryan T. Jenny, Bailey & Glasser, LLP, Wilming-ton, DE and Washington, D.C.; Daniel Feinberg and Todd Jackson, Feinberg, Jackson, Worthman & Wasow LLP, Berkeley, CA for plaintiff.
for defendant: Albert H. Manwaring, IV, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael J. Prame, Edward J. Meehan and Ross P. McSweeney, Groom Law Group, Washington, D.C. for defendant.
Case Number: D68818
Plaintiff met the ascertainability, numerosity and adequacy of representation requirements for a class action.
Publication Date: 2019-12-18
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Software | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel Friedlander, Jeffrey M. Gorris and Christopher P. Quinn, Friedlander & Gorris, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Randal J. Baron, David A. Knotts and Christopher H. Lyons, Robbins Geller Rudman & Down LLP, San Diego, CA and Nashville, TN; Brian J. Robbins, Stephen J. Oddo and Gregory Del Gaizo, Robbins LLP, San Diego, CA for lead plaintiff.
for defendant: Elena C. Norman, Richard J. Thomas, Benjamin M. Potts, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Peter A. Wald, Blair Connelly and Rachel J. Rodriguez, Latham & Watkins LLP, San Francisco, CA and New York, NY for defendants Ellison and Catz. Kenneth J. Nachbar, John P. DiTomo, Thomas P. Will and Corinne R. Moini, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sara B. Brody, Jaime A. Bartlett and Matthew J. Dolan, Sidley Austin LLP, San Francisco, CA and Palo Alto, CA for defendants Hurd Estate, Henley, Conrades, James, Panetta, Boskin, Berg, Garcia-Molina, Seligman, Chizen and Bingham. A. Thompson Bayliss and E. Wade Houston, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; John W. Spiegel, George M. Garvey and John M. Gildersleeve, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendant Goldberg. Andrew S. Dupre, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robert P. Feldman and Christopher D. Kercher, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sulli-van LLP, Redwood Shores, CA and New York, NY for defendant Nelson. Thomas A. Beck, Blake Rohrbacher, Susan M. Han-nigan, Matthew D. Perri and Daniel E. Kaprow, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for nominal defendant Ora-cle Corp.
Case Number: D68809
Where a special litigation committee concluded that a litigation asset should be turned over to the lead plaintiff to pursue a derivative action on behalf of the corporation, plaintiff was entitled to all relevant documents considered by the committee.
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