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Publication Date: 2024-09-17
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ned Weinberger, Michael C. Wagner, Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP, Wilmington, DE; Thomas Curry, Saxena White P.A., Wilmington, DE; Joseph L. Christensen, Meghan D. Dougherty, Christensen & Dougherty LLP, Wilmington, DE; A. Thompson Bayliss, Christopher F. Cannataro, Florentina D. Field, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Edward B. Micheletti, Arthur R. Bookout, Matthew P. Majarian, Peyton V. Carper, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Wilmington, DE; Brock E. Czeschin, Matthew D. Perri, Kevin M. Kidwell, Mari Boyle, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; David E. Ross, Roger S. Stronach, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2023-0921-SG
Court calculated legal fee award based on the portion of the transaction price increase that was generated by plaintiff's litigation and the stage of the litigation when the increase was obtained.
Publication Date: 2024-09-17
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Pharmaceuticals
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Barlow, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew M. Berdon, Angus Chen, Alexandria Deep Conroy, Courtney C. Whang, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY; Joseph M. Paunovich, David M. Elihu, James Bieber, Andrew Brayton, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiff.
for defendant: David E. Wilks, Scott B. Czerwonka, Wilks Law, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Deborah E. Fishman, Carson D. Anderson, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Palo Alto, CA; Daniel L. Reisner, Jeffrey A. Fuisz, Angela R. Vicari, Matthew M. Wilk, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY; Howard Sklamberg, Jeremy Cobb, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, Washington, DC for defendant.
Case Number: 2020-1069-MTZ
Deprioritizing and terminating drug development project fell short of commercially reasonable efforts when other companies progressed with developing competing therapies and caused the failure to meet milestones, in breach of the merger agreement.
Publication Date: 2024-09-17
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Biotechnology | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bradley R. Aronstam, Roger S. Stronach, Dylan T. Mockensturm, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Philippe Z. Selendy, Jennifer M. Selendy, Sean P. Baldwin, Oscar Shine, Selendy Gay PLLC, New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: William M. Lafferty, Susan W. Waesco, Elizabeth A. Mullin Stoffer, Kirk C. Andersen, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Joshua A. Goldberg, Muhammad U. Faridi, Diana M. Conner, Lauren S. Potter, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: 2020-0881-LWW
Evidence demonstrated that acquirer intentionally sabotaged development of seller's new technology to avoid making earnout payments, in violation of the merger agreement's requirement to use commercially reasonable efforts and designate the technology as a company priority.
Publication Date: 2024-09-10
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Cargo and Shipping | Manufacturing
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Medinilla
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thad J. Bracegirdle, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Chad I. Michaelson, Antoinette C. Oliver, Kate E. McCarthy, Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP, Pittsburgh, PA for plaintiff.
for defendant: Samuel T. Hirzel, II, Elena M. Sassaman, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: N24C-01-090 VLM CCLD
Buyer plausibly alleged breach of asset purchase agreement where underlying litigation claimed that seller breached its contractual obligations to design and deliver a product, which in turn breached seller's representation that it was in compliance with its contractual obligations.
Publication Date: 2024-09-10
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Medinilla
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L. Moyer, Travis S. Hunter, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Michael A. Barlow, Hayden J. Driscoll, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: N24C-02-130 VLM CCLD
Sellers plausibly alleged fraud claim by asserting that buyers intentionally misrepresented the synergistic possibility of the parties' products to convince sellers that buyers could reach the proposed earnout targets.
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Publication Date: 2024-09-03
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: E-Commerce | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Chancellor Medinilla
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter B. Ladig, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Paul D. Brown, Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Aaron Z. Tobin, Abigail R. Campbell, Condon Tobin Sladek Thornton Nerenberg PLLC, Dallas, TX for defendant.
Case Number: 2023-0984-VLM
Court denied defendant's motion to dismiss for lack of standing where there was no basis to overturn former company's stakeholders' decision to appoint a representative, where the representative was not a necessary party in his personal capacity due to the termination of his employment with defendant.
Publication Date: 2024-09-03
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Biotechnology | Manufacturing
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Chancellor Wallace
Attorneys: For plaintiff: C. Barr Flinn, Paul J. Loughman, Michael A. Carbonara, Jr., Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE, Eric Leon, Latham & Watkins LLP, New York, NY, Nathan A. Sandals, Latham & Watkins LLP, Boston, MA for plaintiff.
for defendant: Patricia L. Enerio, Emily A. Letcher, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzell LLP, Wilmington, DE, Laurence A. Schoen, Breton Leone-Quick, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., Boston, MA for defendant.
Case Number: 2024-0170 PRW
Plaintiff reasonably interpreted parties' merger agreement as merely requiring FDA approval of the medical device system to secure milestone payment without reference to specific size variations of the product.
Publication Date: 2024-08-27
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Accounting | Distribution and Wholesale | Health Care | Manufacturing
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Wallace
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelly E. Farman, Matthew W. Murphy, Edmond S. Kim, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for petitioner.
for defendant: Steven L. Caponi, Matthew B. Goeller, Megan E. O’Connor, K&L Gates LLP, Wilmington, DE for respondent.
Case Number: N23C-02-164 PRW CCLD
Court upheld expert determination issued under parties' contractual dispute resolution clause where record undermined objector's claim that expert overlooked or improperly relied on evidence.
Publication Date: 2024-08-27
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Software
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Chancellor Wallace
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rudolf Koch, Nicholas F. Mastria, Richards, Layton & Finger P.A, Wilmington, DE; Adam Slutsky, Godwin Proctor, LLP, Boston, MA for plaintiff.
for defendant: Tammy L. Mercer, Jillian A. Tyson, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP Wilmington, DE; N. Thomas Connallly, III, Christopher T. Pickens, Patrick T. Michael, and Samuel W. Yergin, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Tysons, VA for defendant.
Case Number: 2024-0261-PRW
Court found no breach of an exclusivity provision in a letter of intent where the provision merely prohibited soliciting proposals for a sale of the subject business, rather than communications about a potential transaction, and announcing consideration of strategic alternatives did not rise to the level of a firm solicitation.
Publication Date: 2024-08-27
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Distribution and Wholesale | Manufacturing
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel M. Silver, Benjamin A. Smyth, Maliheh Zare, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Elisabeth S. Bradley, Y. Carson Zhou, Alan C. Cardenas-Moreno, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2023-1176-KSJM
Court stayed breach of restrictive covenant action pending further proceedings in separate action that likely would have overlapping factual and legal issues.
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