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Publication Date: 2019-08-07
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Consulting
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Barry and Christine M. Mackintosh, Grant & Eisenhoffer P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs Alaska Labor-ers-Employers Retirement Trust and City of Fort Myers Gen. Employees' Pension Fund. Lee D. Rudy, Geoffrey C. Jarvis, J. Daniel Albert and Stacey A. Greenspan, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP, Radnor, PA for City of Fort Myers Gen. Em-ployees' Pension Fund. Bradley R. Aronstam and Roger S. Stronach, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE
for defendant: John A. Neuwirth, Joshua S. Amsel, Matthew S. Connors, Amanda K. Pooler and Sean Moloney, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY for defendants Ganzi, Haley, Heisz, O'Neill, Rabbitt, Ray, Thomas and Zeller. Raymond J. DiCamillo and Sarah T. Andrade, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Richard S. Horvath, Jr., Paul Hastings LLP, San Francis-co, CA for defendants Ubben and ValueAct Capital Management, L.P.
Case Number: D68658
Stockholders failed to rebut the business judgment rule, because they did not present sufficient evidence of a conflict of inter-est.
Publication Date: 2019-07-17
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carmella P. Keener of Rosenthal, Monhait & Goddess, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Carol S. Shahmoon and Gregory E. Keller, Shahmoon Keller PLLC, Great Neck NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: William M. Lafferty, D. McKinley Measley, Thomas P. Will and Lauren P. Russell, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wil-mington, DE; Tariq Mundiya, Sameer Advani, Alexander L. Cheney and Brittany M. Wagonheim, Wilkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, NY for BlackRock Credit Allocation Income Trust and BlackRock New York Municipal Bond Trust. Robert S. Saunders, Ronald N. Brown, III and Eben P. Colby, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, Wilmington, DE and Boston MA for BlackRock Advisors, LLC, Robert Fairbairn and John Perlowski. Gregory P. Williams and Kevin M. Regan, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; John S. Kiernan and Jeremy Feigelson, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, NY for remaining defendants.
Case Number: D68635
The court held that companies could not invalidate a shareholder's nominees due to the failure to return an overly broad ques-tionnaire within a short time frame, and the court further required that votes in favor of the shareholder's nominees should be counted at the next annual meetings.
Publication Date: 2019-07-10
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Software
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew S. Dupre and Alexandra M. Joyce, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Eduard Korsinsky, Amy Miller, William J. Fields and Samir Shukurov, Levi & Korsinsky, LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: John M. Seaman, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Thomas J. Fleming, Adrienne Ward and Kerrin T. Klein, Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP, New York, NY for defendants Lichtenstein, Howard, Kassan Fejes and Steel Holdings defendants. Gregory V. Varallo, Matthew D. Perri and Sarah T. Andrade, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants Fenton, Legyel and Wald.
Case Number: D68626
Pre-suit demand was excused in this derivative action.
Publication Date: 2019-06-26
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Biotechnology | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sidney S. Liebesman, Johnna M. Darby and Wali W. Rushdan II, Fox Rothschild LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Bradley D. Sorrels and Daniyal M. Iqbal, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Wilmington, DE for individual defendants. Stephen E. Jenkins, Ashby & Geddes, P.A., Wilmington, DE for nominal defendant Anixa Biosciences, Inc.
Case Number: D68611
In this derivative action, a stockholder alleged sufficient facts to support an inference that defendant directors and officers breached their fiduciary duty.
Publication Date: 2019-06-12
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
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Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael F. Bonkowski and Andrew L. Cole, Cole Schotz P.C., Wilmington, DE; Steven R. Klein and Rachel A. Mongiello, Cole Schotz P.C., Hackensack, NJ, attorneys for plaintiffs
for defendant: Lisa A. Schmidt and Matthew D. Perri, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Joseph L. Fogel and Michael P. Kornak, Freeborn & Peters LLP, Chicago, IL, attorneys for defendants.
Case Number: D68590
Breach of fiduciary duty claim against investors failed where company failed to show investors qualified as company controllers through either their equity stake, their control of the board, or their efforts to disrupt company operations that were severe enough to demonstrate the investors' control.
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Publication Date: 2019-06-12
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce E. Farnan, Michael J. Farnan and Rosemary J. Piergiovanni, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE; A. Arnold Gershon and Mi-chael A. Toomey, Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: Kevin G. Abrams, J. Peter Shindel, Jr. and Matthew L. Miller, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robert J. Guiffra, Jr. and David M.J. Rein, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, New York, NY for director defendants. Gregory V. Varallo, Kevin M. Gallagher and Robert L. Burns, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Case Number: D68597
The entire fairness standard of review applied to the question of director self-compensation.
Publication Date: 2019-06-05
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Retail
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John M. Seaman and Matthew L. Miller, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ray Shepard, The Shepard Law Firm LLC, Pasadena, MD for plaintiff
for defendant: David J. Margules, Jessica C. Watt, and Evan W. Krick, Ballard Spahr LLP, Wilmington, DE; William A. Slaughter and William B. Igoe, Ballard Spahr LLP, Philadelphia, PA for defendant
Case Number: D68583
Former director/officer was entitled to mandatory indemnification by prevailing in corporate lawsuit against him for acts taken in his official capacity by ultimately enforcing court's prior order barring corporation from asserting suits against its directors and officers.
Publication Date: 2019-05-29
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Chancellor Bouchard
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter B. Ladig and Brett M. McCartney, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE; David H. Wollmuth and Michael C. Ledley, Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs
for defendant: Norman M. Monhait and Carmella P. Keener, Rosenthal, Monhait & Goddess, P.A., Wilmington, DE; William T. Reid, IV, Michael Yoder, Jordan L. Vimont, and Ryan M. Goldstein, Reid Collins & Tsai LLP, Austin, TX for defendants.
Case Number: D68574
Judicial dissolution of LLC warranted where manager attempted to amass unilateral control in violation of operating agreement's requirement that managers advise and consent on all board decisions and the operating agreement contained no workable mechanism to allow managers to break their deadlock.
Publication Date: 2019-05-22
Practice Area: Corporate Governance | Insurance Law
Industry: Food and Beverage
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Judge: Judge Davis
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Katzenstein and Kathleen M. Miller, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ronald P. Schiller, Daniel J. Layden, and Bonnie M. Hoffman, Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, Philadelphia, PA; Michael L. Manire and Deeanna M. Galla, Manire & Galla LLP, New York, NY; Robert P. Colon and Kevin A. Lahm, Walker Wilcox Matousek LLP, Chicago, IL; Merril Hirsh, Merril Hirsh PLLC, Washington, DC for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Elena C. Norman and Mary F. Dugan, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kirk A. Pasich and Pamela Woods, Pasich LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Mikaela Whitman and Jeffrey L. Schulman, Pasich LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: D68467
Summary judgment in insurers' declaratory judgment action regarding coverage obligations denied in part where there was a genuine issue of material fact as to whether insurers unreasonably withheld consent to covered settlement or whether insureds breached cooperation clause by failing to respond to certain document and information requests by insurers.
Publication Date: 2019-04-17
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Transportation
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Barry, Jeff A. Almeida and Rebecca A. Musarra, Grant & Eisenhofer, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: R. Judson Scaggs, Jr., Susan W. Waesco and Sabrina M. Hendershot, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Susan S. Muck, Kevin P. Muck and Marie C. Bafus, Fenwick & West LLP, San Francisco, CA for defendants Camp, Graves, Huffinton, Al-Rumayyan, Gurley and Bonderman. Donald J. Wolfe, Jr., T. Brad Davey, J. Matthew Belger and Jacob R. Kirk-ham, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant Kalanick. Jody C. Barillare, Susan D. Resley and Marc J. Sonnenfield, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant Yoo. A. Thompson Bayliss and Michael A. Barlow, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Mark P. Gimbel, C. William Phillips and Bryant Pulsipher, Covington & Burling LLP, New York, NY and San Francisco, CA for defendant Uber Technologies.
Case Number: D68533
Plaintiff in this derivative action failed to demonstrate that demand on the board of directors would have been futile due to the directors' inability to exercise business judgment with regard to the matter.
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