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  • Yeransian v. Markel Group Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-06-25
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Insurance | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Rendell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 23-2234

    Court affirmed summary judgment dismissal of claims where they were collaterally estopped by satisfied arbitration award that resolved the parties' dispute over valuation of deferred compensation payments.

  • Stansell v. Rosensweig

    Publication Date: 2024-06-25
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: E-Commerce | Education | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kurt M. Heyman, Gillian L. Andrews, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Gustavo F. Bruckner, Samuel J. Adams, Ankita Sangwan, Pomerantz LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: William M. Lafferty, Susan W. Waesco, Emily C. Friedman, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Dean S. Kristy, Jennifer C. Bretan, Fenwick & West LLP, San Francisco, CA; Felix S. Lee, Fenwick & West LLP, Mountain View, CA; Ethan H. Townsend, Daniel T. Menken, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Wilmington, DE; Timothy E. Hoeffner, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: 2023-0180-PAF

    Company's proxy statement was not materially misleading where company was not obligated to state that customers used the company's products to cheat and use of products in that manner was reasonably foreseeable.

  • Rhoades v. Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-06-25
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Connolly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Geoffrey G. Grivner, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Wilmington, DE; Andrew J. Shapren, Scott C. Oberlander, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: John P. DiTomo, Courtney L. Kurz, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; David G. Hille, Gregory M. Stamer, Erika Murdoch, White & Case LLP, New York, NY for defendant.
    Case Number: 23-1262-CFC

    Court affirmed FINRA arbitration award, rejecting plaintiffs' arguments in support of their motion to vacate where the award was based on applicable statutory law and a reasonable interpretation of FINRA rules, and where the court lacked authority to reweigh the evidence.

  • Ferrellgas Partners L.P. v. Zurich Am. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2024-06-25
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Cargo and Shipping | Energy | Insurance
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Baldwin, Peter McGivney, Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE; Brent W. Vincent, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, Chicago, IL for appellants.
    for defendant: Bruce W. McCullough, Bodell Bove, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Louis A. Bové, Bodell Bove, LLC, Philadelphia, PA for appellee.
    Case Number: N19C-05-275

    Trial court correctly determined that insurance policy unambiguously excluded coverage for wrongful acts that occurred after the coverage period, as the policy's run-off exclusion merely allowed claimant to file a covered claim after the policy period expired.

  • CURO Intermediate Holdings Corp. v. Sparrow Purchaser, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-06-18
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Accounting
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Cook
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas P. Will, Rachel R. Tunney, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Richard T. Marooney, Emma S. Nguyen, King & Spalding LLP, New York, NY; Jeffrey S. Rosenberg, King & Spalding LLP, Washington, DC for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Nicholas J. Rohrer, Lakshmi A. Muthu, Alex B. Haims, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Christina Golden Ademola, Morrison & Foerster LLP, New York, NY; Robert W. May, Michael Komorowski, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA for defendants.
    Case Number: 2023-0371-NAC

    Court found no need for judicial interpretation where parties' dispute over working capital calculation merely involved a GAAP issue, and thus the dispute was properly resolved by an independent accountant under the parties' contractual dispute resolution provision.

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  • Harper v. Sievert

    Publication Date: 2024-06-18
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph L. Christensen, McCollom D’Emilio Smith Uebler LLC, Wilmington, DE; Brian J. Dunne, Edward M. Grauman, Bathaee Dunne LLP, Austin, TX; Yavar Bathaee, Andrew C. Wolinsky, Bathaee Dunne LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: A. Thompson Bayliss, Peter C. Cirka, E. Wade Houston, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Roger A. Cooper, Mark E. McDonald, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: 2022-0819-SG

    Demand was not excused where plaintiff failed to plead specific facts demonstrating that directors acted disloyally to confer a non-ratable benefit to the corporate parent at the parent's direction.

  • Leon v. Orlando

    Publication Date: 2024-06-18
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David L. Finger, Finger & Slanina, LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Matthew D. Perri, Daniel E. Kaprow, Elizabeth J. Freud, Alfred P. Dillione, Rae Ra, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: 2024-0311-LWW

    Court ordered a bond due to the potential for defendant suffering financial losses in connection with a status quo order that restricted defendant from transferring securities it was set to receive.

  • In re Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. IV Stockholder Litig.

    Publication Date: 2024-06-18
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Automotive | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: P. Bradford deLeeuw, deLeeuw Law LLC, Wilmington, DE; Robert C. Schubert, Willem F. Jonckheer, Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe LLP, San Francisco, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Kevin R. Shannon, Christopher N. Kelly, Daniel M. Rusk IV, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; James W. Ducayet, Heather Benzmiller Sultanian, Thomas H. Collier, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, IL for defendants.
    Case Number: 2022-0571-LWW

    Breach of fiduciary duty claims arising from de-SPAC transaction dismissed where claims were based on post-merger developments and thus there was no evidence that defendants failed to disclose material information to public stockholders considering redemption or investment.

  • ETC Ne. Field Serv., LLC v. Muse

    Publication Date: 2024-06-18
    Practice Area: Energy and Natural Resources
    Industry: Energy
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John M. Seaman, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Samuel T. Hirzel, II, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: S. Michael Sirkin, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: 2023-0249-MTZ

    Plaintiff was not entitled to toll the statute of limitations based on alleged concealment of side deal where arbitration had already concluded that the terms of the alleged side deal were expressly included in the parties' agreement, rendering the tolling argument an impermissible collateral attack on the arbitration award.

  • Firefighters Pension Sys. of the City of Kansas City, Missouri Trust v. Found. Bldg. Materials, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-06-18
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Construction | Distribution and Wholesale
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Hanrahan, Samuel L. Closic, Jason W. Rigby, Seth T. Ford, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, Wilmington, DE; Lee D. Rudy, J. Daniel Albert, Kevin M. Kennedy, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP, Radnor, PA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Daniel A. Mason, Elizabeth Wang, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew G. Gordon, Alexia D. Korberg, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY; Raymond J. DiCamillo, Matthew D. Perri, Kevin M. Kidwell, Richards, Layton & Finger P.A., Wilmington, DE; Bradley R. Aronstam, S. Michael Sirkin, Elizabeth M. Taylor, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; John A. Neuwirth, Evert J. Christensen, Jr., Matthew S. Connors, Tania C. Matsuoka, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY; A. Thompson Bayliss, Daniel G. Paterno, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Barry G. Sher, Kevin P. Broughel, Paul Hastings LLP, New York, NY; William B. Chandler III, Brad D. Sorrels, Leah E. León, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Wilmington, DE; Elena C. Norman, James M. Yoch, Jr., Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Brian M. Lutz, George B. Adams III, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, San Francisco, CA; Colin B. Davis, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Irvine, CA for defendants.
    Case Number: 2022-0466-JTL

    Court declined to dismiss non-exculpated fiduciary claims where defendants had a clear conflict of interest between continuing to operate the company or sell it and receive a valuable termination payment.