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Publication Date: 2024-08-27
Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathleen DeLacy, Martin D. Page, Reger Rizzo & Darnall LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Jason C. Powell, Thomas J. Reichert, Laurel A. LaLone, The Powell Firm, LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2023-0077-LM
Court directed parties to address the issue of whether Delaware law expressly or impliedly conferred a parent with standing to challenge the validity of their deceased child's marriage on grounds of fraud.
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.
Publication Date: 2024-08-20
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Bruce McNew, Cooch and Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Lisa M. Zwally, Bryan T. Reed, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2020-0985-KSJM ("AMFI I")
Court denied reargument of decision finding waiver of claim where plaintiff failed to brief the claim aside from a single reference in its papers.
Publication Date: 2024-07-23
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas W. Briggs, Jr., Tarik J. Haskins, Elizabeth A. Mullin Stoffer, Jacob M. Perrone, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Alan I. Silver, Tal A. Bakke, Bassford Remele, P.A., Minneapolis, MN for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Alexandra D. Rogin, Paul S. Seward, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Stephen A. Ling, Karen D. Olson, Spencer Fane LLP, Minneapolis, MN; Courtney L. Creal, Spencer Fane LLP, Nashville, TN for defendants.
Case Number: 2024-0016-KSJM
Court granted managing members summary judgment on claim to invalidate purported amended LLC agreement where prior version of agreement expressly excluded non-managing members from taking unilateral actions on behalf of the company or removing managing members without remaining managing members' consent.
Publication Date: 2024-07-16
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Insurance | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Bruce McNew, Cooch and Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Lisa M. Zwally, Bryan T. Reed, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2020-0985-KSJM
Fiduciary claims allowed to proceed where majority of board's dual fiduciary role with parent and subsidiaries created a conflict of interest preventing consideration of litigation demand, and where plaintiff lacked inquiry notice until parent made public disclosures.
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Publication Date: 2024-07-02
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Legal Services | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeremy D. Eicher, Eicher Law LLC, Wilmington, DE; Frank E. Noyes, II, Offit Kurman, P.A., Wilmington, DE for petitioner.
for defendant: Douglas D. Herrmann, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jennifer C. Voss, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Wilmington, DE for respondent.
Case Number: 9700-CM, 10449-CM
Court overruled corporation's objections to custodian's legal fee petitions where court had already ruled on custodian's entitlement to fees and found no basis to support corporations' challenges to the reasonableness of the fees.
Publication Date: 2024-06-25
Practice Area: Corporate Entities
Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: A. Kimberly Hoffman, R. Eric Hacker, Alena V. Smith, Morris James LLP, Wilmington, DE, attorneys for plaintiff.
for defendant: Max B. Walton, Lisa R. Hatfield, Erica K. Sefton, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Newark, DE, attorneys for defendant.
Case Number: 2024-0403-KSJM
Court allowed parties to enter a status quo order staying the proceedings where necessary to protect plaintiff's interest in mandamus proceeding to challenge expiration of land development plan.
Publication Date: 2024-06-11
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Automotive | Manufacturing | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory V. Varallo, Glenn R. McGillivray, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, Wilmington, DE; Peter B. Andrews, Craig J. Springer, David M. Sborz, Andrew J. Peach, Jackson E. Warren, Andrews & Springer LLC, Wilmington, DE; Catherine A. Gaul, Ashby & Geddes, P.A., Wilmington, DE; John L. Reed, Ronald N. Brown, III, Caleb G. Johnson, Daniel P. Klusman, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: David E. Ross, Garrett B. Moritz, Thomas C. Mandracchia, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; William M. Lafferty, Susan W. Waesco, Ryan D. Stottmann, Miranda N. Gilbert, Jacob M. Perrone, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Rudolf Koch, John D. Hendershot, Kevin M. Gallagher, Andrew L. Milam, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2018-0408-KSJM
Court denied plaintiff's motions to expedite resolution of post-trial issues based on defendants' assertion that an upcoming shareholder proxy vote would not affect the litigation.
Publication Date: 2024-04-08
Practice Area: Corporate Entities
Industry: Automotive | E-Commerce | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christine M. Mackintosh, Rebecca A. Musarra, Grant & Eisenhofer, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Kimberly A. Evans, Robert Erikson, Irene R. Lax, Block & Leviton LLP, Wilmington, DE; Jason M. Leviton, Amanda R. Crawford, Block & Leviton LLP, Boston, MA; Ned Weinberger, Mark Richardson, Jiahui (Rose) Wang, Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP, Wilmington, DE; Domenico Minerva, John Vielandi, Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Joseph R. Slights III, Brad D. Sorrels, Shannon E. German, Leah E. León, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Wilmington, DE; David E. Ross, Adam D. Gold, R. Garrett Rice, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Brian M. Lutz, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, San Francisco, CA; Colin B. Davis, Katie Beaudin, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Irvine, CA; John L. Reed, Ronald N. Brown, III, Peter H. Kyle, Kelly L. Freund, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2020-0415-KSJM
Court granted special litigation committee's motion to dismiss derivative action where members were sufficiently independent and disinterested and conducted a seven-month-long investigation that uncovered sufficient evidence to support the decision to move to dismiss.
Publication Date: 2024-04-01
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Hanrahan, Corinne Elise Amato, Kevin H. Davenport, Stacey A. Greenspan, Christine N. Chappelear, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Lee D. Rudy, Eric L. Zagar, J. Daniel Albert, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP, Radnor, PA for plaintiff.
for defendant: Edward B. Micheletti, Lauren N. Rosenello, Michelle L. Davis, Peyton V. Carper, Claire K. Atwood, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Wilmington, DE; Elena C. Norman, Daniel M. Kirshenbaum, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stephen P. Blake, Laura Lin, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Palo Alto, CA; Sareen K. Armani, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendants.
Case Number: 2022-1001-KSJM
Although the Delaware General Corporation Law only required a corporate board to approve and recommend an essentially complete version of a merger agreement, the draft version approved by defendants failed to meet this standard by omitting key terms and ancillary documents repeatedly referenced throughout the agreement.
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