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Publication Date: 2024-09-17
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Margules, Elizabeth A. Sloan, Steven L. Becton, II, Ballard Spahr LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Mary F. Dugan, Emily V. Burton, Tanner C. Jameson, Alan C. Cardenas-Moreno, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2024-0121-LWW
Court upheld transaction involving merger of operating subsidiary and amendment of its LLC agreement to remove manager, where the relevant LLC agreements and the LLC Act authorized the actions taken to facilitate the transaction.
Publication Date: 2024-09-10
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Pittenger, Jacqueline A. Roger, Adriane M. Kappauf, Rebecca Bolinger, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew J. Levander, Mauricio A. España, Dechert LLP, New York, NY; Christopher J. Merken, Julia M. Curley, Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Travis S. Hunter, Matthew W. Murphy, John M. O’Toole, Mari Boyle, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2023-1247-LWW
Corporation's purposeful violation of the express prohibition of setting a retroactive record date for an annual stockholders' meeting warranted invalidating the board election results and reinstating the prior board to hold a new election.
Publication Date: 2024-09-10
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Consulting | Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Chancellor Wallace
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alan D. Albert, O’Hagan Meyer PLLC, Wilmington, DE; Charles M. Sims, Rachael L. Loughlin, C. Quinn Adams, O’Hagan Meyer PLLC, Richmond, VA for plaintiff.
for defendant: Brian C. Ralston, Daniel M. Rusk, IV, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Paul A. Werner, Imad Matini, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, LLP, Washington, DC for defendant.
Case Number: 2022-0437-PRW
Absolute litigation privilege did not bar company from triggering its contractual membership interest repurchase option where public policy interests did not override the parties' contractual agreements.
Publication Date: 2024-09-10
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Investments and Investment Advisory | Manufacturing
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Hanson, Jr., William J. Burton, Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Blake Rohrbacher, Matthew W. Murphy, Sandy Xu, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2018-0729-SG
Court declined summary judgment dismissal of fraud claims where allegations of withholding of material information could support equitable tolling and plaintiffs plausibly alleged defendants' motive to fraudulently induce plaintiffs' investment.
Publication Date: 2024-08-27
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Electronics | Investments and Investment Advisory | Software
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen B. Brauerman, Sarah T. Andrade, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: Ned Weinberger, Mark Richardson, Brendan W. Sullivan, Labaton Sucharow LLP, Wilmington, DE; Domenico Minerva, Joseph Cotilletta, Labaton Sucharow LLP, New York, NY; David M. Cooper, Silpa Maruri, George T. Phillips, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY; William R. Sears, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Peter B. Andrews, Craig J. Springer, David M. Sborz, Jackson E. Warren, Andrews & Springer LLC, Wilmington, DE; Chad Johnson, Noam Mandel, Desiree Cummings, Robert Gerson, Jonathan Zweig, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, New York, NY; Jeremy S. Friedman, David F.E. Tejtel, Christopher M. Windover, Lindsay La Marca, Friedman Oster & Tejtel PLLC, Bedford Hills, NY for appellee.
Case Number: 349, 2023
Court upheld counsel fee of 26 percent of $1 billion settlement where Delaware disfavored per se rules governing reasonableness of fee awards and chancery court adequately explained the reasonable value of the award.
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Publication Date: 2024-08-20
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Consulting | Food and Beverage | Investments and Investment Advisory | Manufacturing
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel Friedlander, Jeffrey M. Gorris, Christopher M. Foulds, Friedlander & Gorris, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Lawrence P. Eagel, Melissa Fortunato, Marion C. Passmore, Brandon Walker, Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C., New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: Matthew D. Stachel, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Wilmington, DE; Daniel J. Kramer, Andrew J. Ehrlich, Robert N. Kravitz, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY; Michael A. Pittenger, Jacqueline A. Rogers, Caneel Radinson-Blasucci, Camilia R. Katkocin, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sandra C. Goldstein, Stefan Atkinson, Kevin M. Neylan, Jr., Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: 2023-1191-LWW
Court denied relief from dismissed action where "newly discovered evidence" was available to plaintiff long before it filed its initial derivative complaint.
Publication Date: 2024-08-20
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Bruce McNew, Cooch and Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Lisa M. Zwally, Bryan T. Reed, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2020-0985-KSJM ("AMFI I")
Court denied reargument of decision finding waiver of claim where plaintiff failed to brief the claim aside from a single reference in its papers.
Publication Date: 2024-08-06
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Food and Beverage | Investments and Investment Advisory | Manufacturing
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carmella P. Keener, Cooch & Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE; P. Bradford deLeeuw, deLeeuw Law LLC, Wilmington, DE; Benjamin Kaufman & Patrick Donovan, Wolf Haldenstein Freeman & Herz LLP, New York, NY; Michael Hynes, Ligaya Hernandez, Hynes & Hernandez LLC, Malvern, PA; Robert C. Schubert, Willem F. Jonckheer, Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe LLP, San Francisco, CA; Richard D. Greenfield, Marguerite R. Goodman, Ann M. Caldweel, Greenfield & Goodman LLC, Philadelphia, PA; Fred T. Isquith, Sr., Isquith Law PLLC, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Matthew D. Stachel, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Wilmington, DE; Daniel J. Kramer, Andrew J. Ehrlich, William A. Clareman, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY; Michael A. Pittenger, Jacqueline A. Rogers, Caneel Radinson-Blasucci, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sandra C. Goldstein, Stefan Atkinson, Kevin M. Neylan, Jr., Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: 2022-0398-LWW
Court dismissed derivative complaint following rejected litigation demand where plaintiff stockholders had alleged no facts demonstrating errors or improprieties in the efforts of the working group formed to investigate plaintiffs' litigation demands.
Publication Date: 2024-08-06
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Real Estate | Retail
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice LeGrow
Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. Jenkins, Jason Z. Miller, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: Douglas D. Herrmann, James H.S. Levine, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew W. Zepeda, Lurie, Zepeda, Schmalz, Hogan & Martin, Los Angeles, CA for appellee.
Case Number: 318, 2023
Special limited partner was not entitled to distribution from sale of partnership's primary asset where partnership was entitled to deduct defeasance costs to satisfy the mortgage to sell the property as a "loan interest cost."
Publication Date: 2024-08-06
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Software | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Curry, Saxena White, P.A., Wilmington, DE; David Wales, Saxena White, P.A., White Plains, NY; Adam Warden, Saxena White, P.A., Boca Raton, FL; Julie Goldsmith Reiser, Richard A. Speirs, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: Raymond J. DiCamillo, Matthew D. Perri, Nicole M. Henry, Kevin M. Kidwell, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2023-0326-JTL
Governance provisions transferring authority from board to controlling investors was facially invalid where such provisions had not been incorporated into the corporate charter, as charters could not incorporate private agreements by reference without rendering them non-public and preventing stockholders from amending the charter.
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