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Publication Date: 2024-08-27
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Electronics | Investments and Investment Advisory | Software
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen B. Brauerman, Sarah T. Andrade, Bayard, P.A., Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: Ned Weinberger, Mark Richardson, Brendan W. Sullivan, Labaton Sucharow LLP, Wilmington, DE; Domenico Minerva, Joseph Cotilletta, Labaton Sucharow LLP, New York, NY; David M. Cooper, Silpa Maruri, George T. Phillips, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY; William R. Sears, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Peter B. Andrews, Craig J. Springer, David M. Sborz, Jackson E. Warren, Andrews & Springer LLC, Wilmington, DE; Chad Johnson, Noam Mandel, Desiree Cummings, Robert Gerson, Jonathan Zweig, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, New York, NY; Jeremy S. Friedman, David F.E. Tejtel, Christopher M. Windover, Lindsay La Marca, Friedman Oster & Tejtel PLLC, Bedford Hills, NY for appellee.
Case Number: 349, 2023
Court upheld counsel fee of 26 percent of $1 billion settlement where Delaware disfavored per se rules governing reasonableness of fee awards and chancery court adequately explained the reasonable value of the award.
Publication Date: 2024-08-20
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Consulting | Food and Beverage | Investments and Investment Advisory | Manufacturing
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel Friedlander, Jeffrey M. Gorris, Christopher M. Foulds, Friedlander & Gorris, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Lawrence P. Eagel, Melissa Fortunato, Marion C. Passmore, Brandon Walker, Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C., New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: Matthew D. Stachel, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Wilmington, DE; Daniel J. Kramer, Andrew J. Ehrlich, Robert N. Kravitz, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY; Michael A. Pittenger, Jacqueline A. Rogers, Caneel Radinson-Blasucci, Camilia R. Katkocin, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sandra C. Goldstein, Stefan Atkinson, Kevin M. Neylan, Jr., Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: 2023-1191-LWW
Court denied relief from dismissed action where "newly discovered evidence" was available to plaintiff long before it filed its initial derivative complaint.
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: 2024-08-06
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Food and Beverage | Investments and Investment Advisory | Manufacturing
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carmella P. Keener, Cooch & Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE; P. Bradford deLeeuw, deLeeuw Law LLC, Wilmington, DE; Benjamin Kaufman & Patrick Donovan, Wolf Haldenstein Freeman & Herz LLP, New York, NY; Michael Hynes, Ligaya Hernandez, Hynes & Hernandez LLC, Malvern, PA; Robert C. Schubert, Willem F. Jonckheer, Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe LLP, San Francisco, CA; Richard D. Greenfield, Marguerite R. Goodman, Ann M. Caldweel, Greenfield & Goodman LLC, Philadelphia, PA; Fred T. Isquith, Sr., Isquith Law PLLC, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Matthew D. Stachel, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, Wilmington, DE; Daniel J. Kramer, Andrew J. Ehrlich, William A. Clareman, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY; Michael A. Pittenger, Jacqueline A. Rogers, Caneel Radinson-Blasucci, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sandra C. Goldstein, Stefan Atkinson, Kevin M. Neylan, Jr., Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: 2022-0398-LWW
Court dismissed derivative complaint following rejected litigation demand where plaintiff stockholders had alleged no facts demonstrating errors or improprieties in the efforts of the working group formed to investigate plaintiffs' litigation demands.
Publication Date: 2024-08-06
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Real Estate | Retail
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice LeGrow
Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. Jenkins, Jason Z. Miller, Smith, Katzenstein & Jenkins LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellant.
for defendant: Douglas D. Herrmann, James H.S. Levine, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Wilmington, DE; Andrew W. Zepeda, Lurie, Zepeda, Schmalz, Hogan & Martin, Los Angeles, CA for appellee.
Case Number: 318, 2023
Special limited partner was not entitled to distribution from sale of partnership's primary asset where partnership was entitled to deduct defeasance costs to satisfy the mortgage to sell the property as a "loan interest cost."
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Publication Date: 2024-08-06
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Software | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Curry, Saxena White, P.A., Wilmington, DE; David Wales, Saxena White, P.A., White Plains, NY; Adam Warden, Saxena White, P.A., Boca Raton, FL; Julie Goldsmith Reiser, Richard A. Speirs, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: Raymond J. DiCamillo, Matthew D. Perri, Nicole M. Henry, Kevin M. Kidwell, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2023-0326-JTL
Governance provisions transferring authority from board to controlling investors was facially invalid where such provisions had not been incorporated into the corporate charter, as charters could not incorporate private agreements by reference without rendering them non-public and preventing stockholders from amending the charter.
Publication Date: 2024-08-06
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: A. Thompson Bayliss, Samuel D. Cordle, Eric A. Veres, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Angela C. Zambrano, Yolanda Cornejo Garcia, Margaret Hope Allen, Sidley Austin LLP, Dallas, TX; Robin Wechkin, Sidley Austin LLP, Issaquah, WA for plaintiff.
for defendant: Michael W. McDermott, Richard I. G. Jones, Jr., David B. Anthony, Zachary J. Schnapp, Berger McDermott LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2021-0619-JTL
Breach of LLC agreement's no-transfer provision was willful where member was charged with knowledge of the provision and knew that transferring his units was a critical part of a loan transaction he was attempting to close, as the member merely reasonably believed that the LLC would not object to the transaction.
Publication Date: 2024-08-06
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Aerospace | Investments and Investment Advisory | Manufacturing
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Blake A. Bennett, Cooch and Taylor, P.A., Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: John L. Reed, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2022-1124-MTZ
Derivative complaint failed due to lack of allegations of bad faith by board where record showed it never knowingly or intentionally disregarded any alleged requirement for a stockholder vote to amend corporation's employee equity awards.
Publication Date: 2024-07-30
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Real Estate
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Barlow, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Wilmington, DE; S. Michael Blochberger, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael B. Carlinsky, David E. Myre, Ryan A. Rakower, Caitlin E. Jokubaitis, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, New York, NY; Paul J. Loughman, Robert M. Vrana, Michael A. Laukaitis II, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Mitchell Geller, Jasmine S. Chean, Holland & Knight LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Rudolf Koch, Daniel E. Kaprow, Morgan R. Harrison, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Jason Cyrulnik, Paul Fattaruso, Cyrulnik Fattaruso LLP, New York, NY for defendant.
Case Number: 2023-1124-JTL
Lack of formal identification of managers meant that LLC operating family business was a member-managed entity, although deceased family member's LLC interest became an assignee interest held by his estate.
Publication Date: 2024-07-30
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: E. Wade Houston, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE, special magistrate;
for defendant: Richard I.G. Jones, Jr., Harry W. Shenton, IV, Zachary J. Schnapp, Berger McDermott LLP, Wilmington, DE, attorneys for receiver.
Case Number: 12843-VCL
Court overruled receiver's objections to special magistrate's report on allegations of wrongdoing by receiver where the recommendations did not violate receiver's constitutional rights by remarking on receiver's invocation of Fifth Amendment privilege in a context that would not result in self-incrimination and did not recommend that receiver be convicted of a crime.
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