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Publication Date: 2019-05-01
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Per Curiam
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Barry, Christine M. Mackintosh, Michael T. Manuel and Rebecca A. Musarra, Grant & Eisenhofer P.A., Wilming-ton, DE for petitioners.
for defendant: Michael P. Kelly, Steven P. Wood and Daniel J. Brown, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Marc J. Sonnenfeld, Karen Pieslak Pohlmann and Laura Hughes McNally, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, PA for respondent. Ned Wein-berger, Derrick Farrell and Thomas Curry, Labaton Sucharow LLP, Wilmington, DE for amici curiae professors in support of petitioners. Gregory P. Williams, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for amici curiae professors in support of respondent.
Case Number: D68549
The chancery court abused its discretion in this statutory appraisal proceeding when valuing the shares by deducting unspeci-fied reduced agency costs from the deal price.
Publication Date: 2019-04-24
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Construction
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian C. Ralston and Matthew A. Golden, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael Dockterman, Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, Chicago, IL for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Joseph B. Cicero, Paul D. Brown, and Stephanie H. Dallaire, Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Mark L. McAlpine, Douglas W. Eyre, McAlpine PC, Auburn Hills, MI for defendants.
Case Number: D68536
Plaintiffs were entitled to summary judgment on their breach of contract claim and defendants' affirmative defenses where plaintiffs' contractual notice obligation did not apply to its claim for indemnification, plaintiffs had no duty to mitigate prior to defendants' breach, and unclean hands was not a defense to a purely legal claim for breach.
Publication Date: 2019-04-24
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Consumer Products | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Chancellor Bouchard
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter B. Ladig and Sara E. Bussiere, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE; David H. Wollmuth and Michael C. Ledley, Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch LLP, New York, NY; David A. Jenkins, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Scott J. Watnik, Wilk Auslander LLP, New York, NY; Thomas A. Brown, Morea Schwartz Bradham Friedman & Brown LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Andrew D. Cordo and F. Troupe Mickler IV, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Adrienne M. Ward and Brian Katz, Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP, New York, NY; John B. Borgan, Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, New York, NY; Douglas D. Herrmann, Pepper Hamilton LLP, Wilmington, DE; Paul B. Carberry, Joshua Weedman, and Erin Smith, White & Case LLP, New York, NY; Frederick B. Rosner, Scott J. Leonhardt, and Jason A. Gibson, The Rosner Law Group LLC, Wilmington, DE; S. Preston Ricardo, Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP, New York, NY; John D. Hendershot, Susan M, Hannigan, and Brian F. Morris, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Brian B. House, Foley & Lardner LLP, Milwaukee, WI for defendants.
Case Number: D68534
Plaintiffs' fee application pursuant to the corporate benefit doctrine denied under equitable principles where plaintiffs opposed company's efforts to judicially validate defective corporate acts identified by plaintiffs to succeed on their larger claim for damages.
Publication Date: 2019-04-03
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Chancellor Bouchard
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Blake A. Bennett, Cooch and Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE; W. Scott Holleman and Garam Choe, Johnson Fistel, LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Elena C. Norman and Daniel M. Kirshenbaum, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Joshua Z. Rabinovitz, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL; Devora W. Allon, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: D68510
Breach of fiduciary duty following tender offer merger transaction dismissed where plaintiffs failed to present facts supporting allegation that controlling stockholder had motivation to engineer sale for personal liquidity concerns or that the board intentionally depressed company projections in the tender offer recommendation statement.
Publication Date: 2019-03-27
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Consumer Products | Retail
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
Attorneys: For plaintiff: William B. Chandler III, Bradley D. Sorrels, Shannon E. German, Andrew D. Berni, David J. Berger and Katherine Henderson, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Wilmington, DE and Palo Alto, CA; Wil-liam M. Lafferty, Thomas W. Briggs, Jr. and Richard Li, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilming-ton, DE; Tariq Mundiya, Jeffrey Korn, Sameer Advani and Shaimaa Hussein, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
for defendant: David R. Ross and S. Michael Sirkin, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Bruce Van Dalsem, William C. Price, Scott B. Kidman, Andrew J. Rossman, Jane M. Byrne, Corey Worcester, Ellyde R. Thompson, Guyon H. Knight, Elisabeth B. Miller and Hope D. Skibitsky, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY for intervenor-plaintiff B. Riley Financial. Michael A. Pittenger, T. Brad Davey, Matthew F. Davis, Jacqueline A. Rogers and Caneel Radinson-Blasucci , Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; John W. Spiegel, George M. Garvey, Robert L. Dell Angelo and John M. Gildersleeve, Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendant.
Case Number: D68509
Plaintiffs failed to demonstrate that a merger agreement's end date was extended or that defendant was barred from exercising its right to terminate the agreement.
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Publication Date: 2019-03-13
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Davis
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Colin R. Hagan, David J. Shlansky and David H. Holloway, Shlansky Law Group, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Robert A. Atkins, Steven C. Herzog, Stephen P. Lamb and Daniel A. Mason, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York and Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: D68493
All of plaintiff's breach of contract claims were barred by res judicata or the statute of limitations, except the claim for indem-nification of attorney fees.
Publication Date: 2019-03-13
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Construction | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas A. Uebler and Kerry M. Porter, McCollom D'Emilio Smith Uebler LLC, Wilmington, DE for petitioner.
for defendant: Michael F. Bonkowski, Nicholas J. Brannick, G. David Dean and Bradley P. Lehman, Cole Schotz P.C., Wilmington, DE for re-spondent.
Case Number: D68488
In this appraisal matter, the court relied on a discounted cash flow analysis to arrive at the fair value of the shares on the date of the merger.
Publication Date: 2019-03-06
Practice Area: Legal Malpractice | Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Legal Services | Software
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Johnston
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher H. Lee and Blake A. Bennett, Cooch and Taylor, P.A.; Timothy S. Perkins, Underwood Perkins, P.C. for plaintiff.
for defendant: P. Clarkson Collins, Jr., Carl N. Kunz, III, and Kathleen A. Murphy, Morris James LLP; George M. Kryder and Melissa L. James, Vinson & Elkins LLP for defendants.
Case Number: D68450
Legal malpractice action accrued once counsel advised plaintiff client of potential issues with counsel's advice regarding a cash-out merger, which could have resulted financial losses for plaintiffs.
Publication Date: 2019-02-20
Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Education | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth J. Nachbar and Sabrina M. Hendershot, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Phillip A. Geraci, Aaron F. Miner and Harry K. Fidler, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff and third-party defendant.
for defendant: Robert S. Saunders, Jenness E. Parker, Lauren N. Rosenello and Jessica M. Jones, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: D68467
A party was not entitled to specific enforcement of a provision for expert determination where the parties' dis-pute involved an issue outside the expert's area of expertise.
Publication Date: 2019-01-09
Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Biotechnology
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard L. Renck, Oderah C. Nwaeze, John J. Soroko, Wayne A. Mack, Jessica Priselac and Joseph J. Pangaro of Duane Mor-ris LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Kevin Shannon and J. Matthew Belger of Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jay P. Lefkowitz, Matthew So-lum, Shireen A. Barday, Amanda B. Elbogen and Z. Payvand Ahdout of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: D68417
The court allowed a breach of contract claim to proceed where it was unclear whether a defendant used commercially reason-able efforts, but plaintiffs failed to state a claim for tortious interference and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing.
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