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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: 2019-07-31
Practice Area: Deals and Transactions
Industry: Automotive | Manufacturing | Software
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin G. Abrams, J. Peter Shindel, Jr. and Matthew L. Miller, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Herbert J. Stern and Brian J. DeBoer, Stern Kilcullen & Rufolo LLC, Florham Park, NJ for plaintiff.
for defendant: Raymond J. DiCamillo and Kevin M. Gallagher, Richards, Layton & Finder, P.A., Wilmington, DE; John J. Tumilty and Amanda R. Phillips, Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton, P.C., Waltham, MA for defendant.
Case Number: D68651
The statute of limitations barred most of a buyer's indemnity claims.
Publication Date: 2019-07-10
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Hanrahan, Stephen D. Dargitz, Paul A. Fioravanti, Corinne Elise Amato, Kevin H. Davenport, and Eric J. Juray, Prickett, Hones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Michael C. Wagner, J. Daniel Albert, and Grant D. Goodhart, III, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP, Radnor, PA for plaintiff
for defendant: David J. Teklits and Thomas P. Will, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Mark Oakes, William Patrick Courtney, and Ryan Metzer, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, Austin, TX; Raymond J. DiCamillo, Brian F. Morris, and Sara C. Hunter, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Colin B. Davis, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Irvine CA; Mark H. Mixon, Jr., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: D68624
Defendant's motion to dismiss complaint brought by stockholder of defendant's acquired company dismissed where stockholder had standing to enforce stockholder agreement that imposed standstill agreement identical to §203 protections upon defendant.
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: 2019-06-19
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Aerospace | Investments and Investment Advisory | Legal Services
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rudolf Koch, Susan M. Hannigan and Matthew W. Murphy, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Christopher F. Robertson and Alison K. Eggers, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Boston, MA for plaintiff and third-party defendants.
for defendant: John P. DiTomo and Jarrett W. Horowitz, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Roberto M. Braceras, Adam Slutsky and Ezekiel L. Hill of Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, MA for defendants.
Case Number: D68604
The parties' merger agreement contained a provision which preserved the attorney-client privilege regarding pre-merger communications between sellers and their attorney.
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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.
Publication Date: 2019-06-05
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rudolf Koch, Susan M. Hannigan and Matthew W. Murphy, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Christopher F. Robertson and Alison K. Eggers, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, Boston, MA for plaintiffs and third-party defendants
for defendant: John P. DiTomo and Jarrett W. Horowitz, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Roberto M. Braceras, Adam Slutsky and Ezekiel L. Hill, Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, MA for defendants/third-party plaintiffs
Case Number: D68588
In this merger litigation, defendants named only some stockholders in their third-party complaint, but the court dismissed de-fendants' request for rescission because all of the stockholders were indispensable parties. Defendants' unjust enrichment claim survived a motion to dismiss.
Publication Date: 2019-05-22
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Advertising | Investments and Investment Advisory | Software
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marcus E. Montejo and John G. Day, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Rafael X. Zahralddin and Jonathan M. Stemerman, Elliott Greenleaf, P.C., Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: D68470
In this case involving a corporate merger, the company and its board were not entitled to judgment on the pleadings where they did not comply with statutory notice requirements regarding appraisal rights.
Publication Date: 2019-05-22
Practice Area: Intellectual Property | Trade Secrets
Industry: Consulting
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bradley R. Aronstam, Eric D. Selden, and R. Garrett Rice, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Robert S. Berezin and Nicholas J. Pappas, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
for defendant: John P. DiTomo, Matthew R. Clark, and Barnaby Grzaslewicz, Morris, Nicholds, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: D68466
The court adopted the narrow version of liability under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which only imposed liability for unauthorized access of computer systems, rather than for misuse of computer systems and files that were otherwise accessed under proper authorization.
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.
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