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Publication Date: 2019-09-11
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Food and Beverage
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Slights
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessica Zeldin, Monhait & Goddess, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Scott G. Burdine and Davie E. Wynne, Burdine Wynne LLP, Hou-ston, TX for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Timothy R. Dudderar, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants Blue Bell Creameries, U.S.A., Inc., Jim Kruse, Howard Kruse, Dickson, Rankin, Markwardt, Barhill, Ehlert, MacInerney and Ryan. Srinivas M. Raju and Kelly L. Freund, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants Bridges and Paul Kruse. Paul A. Fioravanti, Jr. and John G. Day, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Hugh C. Connor II, Michael D. Anderson and Caleb B. Bulls, Kelly Hart & Hallman, LLP, Fort Worth, TX for defendants Blue Bell Creameries, Inc. and Blue Bell Creameries, U.S.A., Inc. Joseph B. Cicero and Gregory E. Stuhlman, Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole, LLP, Wilmington, DE for Blue Bell Creameries L.P. Michael J. Maimone and Jospeh C. Schoell, Drinker Biddle and Reath LLP, Wilmington, DE for Special Litig. Comm. of Blue Bell Creameries, L.P.
Case Number: D68701
Agency principles prevented a special litigation committee from having authority to manage this derivative litigation, because the court had previously held that the sole general partner which created the committee had a disabling interest.
Publication Date: 2019-09-04
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Financial Services and Banking
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elena C. Norman, Benjamin M. Potts, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Louis R. Miller, Daniel S. Mil-ler and Jeffery B. White, Miller Barondess, LLP, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Kenneth J. Nachbar and Alexandra M. Cumings, Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: D68693
A release provision in a settlement agreement was not effective to preserve plaintiffs' rights to pursue derivative or direct claims, because they had already sold their shares pursuant to separate repurchase agreements.
Publication Date: 2019-08-21
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Consumer Products | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Traynor
Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. Felice, Bailey & Glasser, LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: Kevin G. Abrams and Matthew L. Miller, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Brian J. Capitummino, Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP, Rochester, NY for appellee.
Case Number: D67676
There was no presumption of confidentiality for books and records produced in response to a §220 request, nor was a requesting stockholder required to show exigent circumstances to avoid an indefinite confidentiality obligation.
Publication Date: 2019-08-14
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Retail
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Chancellor Bouchard
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas A. Uebler and Jeremy J. Riley, McCollom D’Emilio Smith Uebler LLC, Wilmington, DE; Melinda A. Nicholson, Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC, New Orleans, LA; Roger A. Sachar, Newman Ferrara LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: William M. Lafferty, Susan W. Waesco and Riley T. Svikhart of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Meryl L. Young, Jason J. Mendro and Lissa M. Percopo of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Irvine, CA and Washington, DC for defend-ants.
Case Number: D68666
In this derivative action, plaintiff failed to allege particularized facts that defendant directors acted in bad faith or to demon-strate demand futility.
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.
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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
Industry:
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.
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.
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