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Publication Date: 2021-10-13
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen E. Jenkins, F. Troup Mickler IV, Ashby & Geddes, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Eduard Korsinsky, Gregory M. Nespole, Daniel Tepper, Levi & Korsinsky, LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: Kevin R. Shannon, Matthew F. Davis, Justin T. Hymes, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; David M. Zensky, Brian Carney, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, New York, NY; Scott Barnard, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Dallas, TX; David E. Ross, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew B. Clubok, J. Christian Word, Stephen P. Barry, Latham & Watkins, LLP, Washington, DC; Rudolf Koch, Matthew D. Perri, Richards Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Bruce Birenboim, Susanna M. Buergel, Christopher L. Filburn, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP, New York, NY; William B. Chandler, III, Andrew D. Cordo, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Wilmington, DE; Mark A. Kirsch, Randy M. Mastro, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: D69573
The court dismissed plaintiff's derivative claims because he failed to adequately plead the existence of a control group, and plaintiff also failed to demonstrate demand futility.
Publication Date: 2021-10-13
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Insurance | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Slights
Attorneys: For plaintiff: P. Bradford deLeeuw, deLeeuw Law LLC, Wilmington, DE; David R. Scott, Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law LLP, Colchester, CT; Thomas L. Laughlin IV, Scott Jacobsen, Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law LLP, New York, NY; Robert C. Schubert, Willem F. Jonckheer, Dustin L. Schubert, Schubert Jonckheer & Kilbe LLP, San Francisco, CA; Robert B. Weiser, James M. Ficaro, The Weiser Law Firm P.C., Berwyn, PA; Brett D. Stecker, Shuman, Glenn & Stecker, Ardmore, PA; Michael I. Fistel, Jr., Johnson & Weaver, LLP, Marietta, GA; Corey D. Holzer, Holzer & Holzer, LLC, Atlanta, GA for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Srinivas M. Raju, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Greg A. Danilow, Caroline Hickey Zalka, John A. Neuwirth, Evert J. Christensen, Jr., Amanda K. Pooler, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: D69571
Plaintiffs in this derivative action failed to adequately plead demand futility and they also failed to allege claims for breach of fiduciary duty against officers and directors, so the court granted defendants' motions to dismiss.
Publication Date: 2021-10-06
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Investments and Investment Advisory | Real Estate
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christine M Mackintosh, Kimberly A. Evans, Michael D. Bell, Vivek Upadhya, Grant & Eisenhofer P.A., Wilmington, DE; Jeroen van Kwawegen, Christopher J. Orrico, Andrew E. Blumberg, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Raymond J. DiCamillo, Kevin M. Gallagher, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Joseph De Simone, Michelle J. Annunziata, Michael Rayfield, Mayer Brown LLP, New York, NY; Matthew E. Fenn, Mayer Brown LLP, Chicago, IL; C. Barr Flinn, Paul Loughman, Alberto E. Chávez, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Eric Leon, Nathan Taylor, Latham & Watkins LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: D69563
Genuine issues of material fact precluded summary judgment on the issue of demand futility, but the court dismissed claims against two director defendants in this derivative action.
Publication Date: 2021-09-08
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Manufacturing
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
Attorneys: For plaintiff: P. Bradford deLeeuw, deLeeuw Law LLC, Wilmington, DE; Richard A. Speirs, Christopher Lometti, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, New York, NY; Robert C. Schubert, Willem F. Jonckheer, Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe LLP, San Francisco, CA; Kip B. Shuman, Shuman, Gleen & Stecker, San Francisco, CA; Rusty E. Glenn, Shuman, Gleen & Stecker, Denver, CO; Brett D. Stecker, Shuman, Gleen & Stecker, Ardmore, PA for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Jody C. Barillare, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE; Troy S. Brown, Laura Hughes McNally, Brian F. Morris, Karen Pieslak Pohlmann, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, PA; William M. Lafferty, Ryan D. Stottmann, Sabrina M. Hendershot, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Peter E. Kazanoff, Sara A. Ricciardi, Courtney G. Skarupski, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, New York, NY; William M. Lafferty, Ryan D. Stottmann, Sabrina M. Hendershot, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Daniel V. McCaughey, Erin Macgowan, Ropes & Gray LLP, Boston, MA; Christian Reigstad, Ropes & Gray LLP, New York, NY; Daniel A. Mason, Matthew D. Stachel, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew J. Ehrlich, Brette Tannenbaum, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY; Kevin G. Abrams, J. Peter Shindel, Jr., Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Paul Vizcarrondo, John F. Lynch, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: D69527
Derivative complaint dismissed for failure to plead demand futility where stockholders could not show that a majority of directors possessed non-public information that caused the company to issue material misstatements or omissions, so that as a result the directors did not face a substantial likelihood of liability to excuse the demand requirement.
Publication Date: 2021-09-08
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Pharmaceuticals
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard I. G. Jones, Jr., John G. Harris, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: David J. Teklits, Sara Toscano, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jeffrey Alan Simes, Goodwin Procter LLP, New York, NY for defendant.
Case Number: D69526
Court declined to dismiss case in favor of previously-filed action involving the parties, where the present case involved distinct issues and the previously-filed action was heading to trial, such that dismissing the present case would not serve judicial economy by forcing the previously-filed action to return to the pleadings stage.
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Publication Date: 2021-08-18
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Bruce McNew, Cooch and Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
for defendant: David A. Dorey, Blank Rome LLP, Wilmington, DE; Christopher M. Mason, Nixon Peabody LLP, New York, NY; Carolyn G. Nussbaum, Nixon Peabody LLP, Rochester, NY for defendants.
Case Number: D69502
Common interest doctrine could not support privilege for withheld documents that were shared by controlling stockholder and company chairman/president/CEO where evidence demonstrated that the controller also was acting to benefit his other controlling stockholder family members through the proposed self-tender transaction.
Publication Date: 2021-08-18
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard I.G. Jones, Jr., David B. Anthony, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE; David Lackowitz, Zaid Shukri, Moses & Singer LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: Catherine Damavandi, Nurick Law Group, Wilmington, DE; John A. Elzufon, Elzufon Austin & Mondell, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: D69509
Managers of a limited liability company breached their fiduciary duties and fraudulently concealed their wrongdoing.
Publication Date: 2021-08-18
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Mining and Resources
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Slights
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rudolph Koch, Kevin M. Gallagher, Daniel Kaprow, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Jason Cyrulnik, Edward Normand, Paul Fattaruso, Cyrulnik Fattaruso LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Thomas W. Briggs, Jr., Miranda N. Gilbert, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Pedro A. Jimenez, Kevin C. Logue, Kevin P. Broughel, Nicholas Bassett, Katherine K. Solomon, Katherine Rookard, Paul Hastings LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: D69508
The court dismissed some counterclaims as untimely, but the breach of fiduciary duty, aiding and abetting, conspiracy and tortious interference counterclaims survived.
Publication Date: 2021-08-04
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Entertainment and Leisure | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter B. Ladig, Brett M. McCartney, Sarah T. Andrade, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Rishi Bhandari, Mandel Bhandari LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
for defendant: John L. Reed, Ronald N. Brown, III, Peter H. Kyle, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: D69487
Minority shareholders in LLC failed to state a claim for inadequate disclosures where LLC control group was not obligated to provide, as part of a capital call for the LLC, a prediction of the likelihood of a sale of the company by a certain date.
Publication Date: 2021-07-28
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Mining and Resources
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Slights
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rudolf Koch, Kevin M. Gallagher, Daniel Kaprow of Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Jason Cyrulnik, Edward Normand, Paul Fattaruso, Cyrulnik Fattaruso LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Thomas W. Briggs, Jr., Miranda N. Gilbert, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Pedro A. Jimenez; Kevin C. Logue, Kevin P. Broughel, Nicholas Bassett, Katherine K. Solomon, Katherine Rookard, Paul Hastings LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: D69484
Service upon defendants in a foreign country by mailing and posting was reasonably calculated to provide them with actual notice of the pending litigation, so the court denied defendants' motion to dismiss.
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