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  • Piper Jaffray, Inc. v. Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-12-12
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Agriculture | Chemicals and Materials | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric Lopez Schnabel and Alessandra Glorioso, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Wilmington, DE; Thomas P. Swigert and Phil Steger of Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Minneapolis, MN for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Elena C. Norman and Benjamin M. Potts, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Judson E. Lobdell of Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA for defendant.
    Case Number: D68386

    Plaintiff adequately stated a claim for breach of the parties' engagement letter involving financial services, but discovery was necessary to determine factual issues.

  • In re Tangoe, Inc. Stockholders Litig.

    Publication Date: 2018-12-05
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance | Securities Litigation
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Slights
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kurt M. Heyman and Melissa N. Donimirski, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jason M. Leviton and Joel A. Fleming, Block & Leviton LLP, Boston, MA; Jeremy S. Friedman, Spencer Oster, and David F.E. Tejtel, Friedman Oster & Tejtel PLLC, New York, NY for plaintiff
    for defendant: Catherine G. Dearlove and Sarah A. Galetta, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; William H. Paine, Timothy J. Perla, Peter A. Spaeth, and Alexandra C. Bourdreau, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Boston, MA for defendants.
    Case Number: D68375

    Stockholder's derivative complaint not dismissed where he adequately pled company failed to inform stockholders prior to their approval and asserted a reasonable claim for breach of duty of loyalty.

  • Zalmanoff v. Hardy

    Publication Date: 2018-11-28
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance | Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Slights
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald A. Brown, Jr., J. Clayton Athey and Samuel L. Closic of Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilming-ton, DE; Jeffrey S. Abraham of Abraham, Fruchter & Twersky, LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff
    for defendant: David J. Teklits and D. McKinley Measley of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Howard S. Suskin, Elizabeth A. Edmondson, Lorenzo Di Silvio and Rémi J.D. Jaffré of Jenner & Block LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
    Case Number: D68372

    Corporate directors did not breach their fiduciary duty of disclosure when they provided stockholders with two documents which together contained all material information in connection with a stockholder vote.

  • Scott v. Vantage Corp.

    Publication Date: 2018-11-28
    Practice Area: Deals and Transactions | Private Equity and Venture Capital
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Software
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Thynge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: D68373

    Defendants adequately alleged contract and breach of warranty counterclaims, but their tort counterclaims were not based on the violation of any independent legal duty.

  • In re: Pursuit Capital Mgmt., LLC

    Publication Date: 2018-11-14
    Practice Area: Bankruptcy
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. Bankruptcy Court
    Judge: Judge Silverstein
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: D68352

    Adversary proceeding not dismissed on jurisdictional grounds where bankruptcy trustee could assign debtor's legal claims to creditors, since those creditors would ultimately benefit from a distribution of any recovery on those claims.

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  • KT4 Partners, LLC v. Palantir Tech., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-09-05
    Practice Area: Business Torts | Securities Litigation
    Industry: Brokerage | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Davis
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bartholomew J. Dalton, Michael C. Dalton, Dalton & Associates, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Barry S. Simon, Jonathan B. Pitt and Stephen L. Wohlgemuth for plaintiffs
    for defendant: Blake Rohrbacher, Kelly E. Farnan, Kevin Gallagher, Kelly L. Freund, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Kevin Orsini, Rory A. Leraris, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, NY, NY for defendant Palantir Tech., Inc.; Elena C. Norman, Lakshmi A. Muthu, Ashley A. Davoli, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; C. Andrew Kitchen, Nicholas J. Boos, Alexandra Drury, Maynard Cooper & Gale LLP, San Francisco, CA, for defendant Disruptive Tech. Advisors, LLC.
    Case Number: D68276

    Plaintiffs adequately stated claims for tortious interference with a prospective economic advantage and civil conspiracy under either Delaware or California law.

  • In re Oxbow Carbon LLC Unitholder Litigation

    Publication Date: 2018-08-15
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth J. Nachbar, Thomas W. Briggs, Jr., Richard Li, R. Robert Popeo, Michael S. Gardener and Breton Leone-Quick for Oxbow Carbon LLC; Stephen C. Norman, Jaclyn C. Levy, Daniyal M Iqbal, Da-vid B. Hennes, C. Thomas Brown, Adam M. Harris and Elizabeth D. Johnston for Koch parties
    for defendant: Kevin G. Abrams, Michael A. Barlow, April M. Ferraro, Brock E. Czeschin, Matthew D. Perri, Sarah A. Galetta, Chad Johnson, Jennifer Barrett and Silpa Maruri for Crestview parties; J. Clayton Athey, John G. Day, Dale C. Christensen, Jr., and Michael B. Weitman for Loan Line Capital LLC.
    Case Number: D68250

    Where a party disrupted and delayed an exit sale, the court awarded both the remedies of specific performance and compensatory damages.

  • Chuang v. OD Expense LLC

    Publication Date: 2018-08-15
    Practice Area: Contracts | Dispute Resolution | Securities Litigation
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Judge Fuentes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: D68246

    Defendants unable to compel arbitration where agreement also included forum selection clause placing exclusive jurisdiction in Delaware courts, and where defendants were not party to or agents of a party to another agreement containing exclusive arbitration clause.

  • Blueblade Capital Opportunities LLC v. Norcraft Cos., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-08-08
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Manufacturing
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Slights
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. Jenkins and Robert K. Beste, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael E. Davidian, Blueblade Capital Opportunities LLC and Blueblade Capital Opportunities CI LLC, New York, NY, attorneys for petitioners
    for defendant: Raymond J. DiCamillo and Kevin M. Gallagher, Richards Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE, attorneys for respondent.
    Case Number: D68238

    Delta between merger price and fair value on merger date, calculated according to discounted cash flow analysis, was caused by flaws in merger process and warranted adoption of DCF valuation over merger price as fair value for appraisal action purposes.

  • McCarthy v. Fifer

    Publication Date: 2018-08-01
    Practice Area: Contracts | Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Legal Services | Real Estate
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Primos
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: D68235

    The court denied motions for judgment on the pleadings with regard to two legal malpractice claims involving the improper titling of investment properties, because the complaint adequately alleged matters relating to standing and damages.