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  • Alexandria Venture Invs., LLC v. Verseau Therapeutics, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-01-06
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Biotechnology | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raymond J. DiCamillo, Megan E. O’Connor, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Luke Cadigan, Cooley LLP, Boston, MA; Patrick Gunn, Cooley LLP, San Francisco, CA for plaintiffs
    for defendant: David J. Teklits, Thomas P. Will, Morris, Nichols, Arsht, & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: D69246

    Stockholder whose financing proposal was rejected by the board was entitled to limited inspection of books and records after raising reasonable inferences that directors' decision to reject the proposal may have been motivated by conflicts and self-interest.

  • Int'l Rail Partners LLC v. Am. Rail Partners, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-12-09
    Practice Area: Fee Disputes
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian R. Lemon, Andrew S. Dupre, Stephanie Dallaire, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Elizabeth S. Fenton, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Wilmington, DE; Stephen Novack, Joshua E. Liebman, Novack and Macey LLP, Chicago IL for defendant.
    Case Number: D69217

    An advancement provision in an LLC agreement was very broad, so the court granted plaintiffs' motion for judgment on the pleadings regarding their entitlement to fees.

  • Roma Landmark Theaters, LLC v. Cohen Exhibition Co., LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-10-14
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Garrett B. Moritz, Anne M. Steadman, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Marshall R. King, Hannah E. Kirshner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Kevin M. Gallagher, Angela Lam, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Donald A. Harwood, Simon W. Reiff, Harwood Reiff LLC, New York, NY for defendant.
    Case Number: D69155

    Defendant adequately stated a counterclaim for fraud, but the court dismissed the remainder of its counterclaims.

  • Glen Allen Farm, LLC v. New Castle County

    Publication Date: 2020-10-14
    Practice Area: Public Utilities
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sidney S. Liebesman, E. Chaney Hall, Wali W. Rushdan, Fox Rothschild LLP, Wilmington, DE for petitioner.
    for defendant: Max B. Walton, Lauren P. DeLuca, Connolly Gallagher LLP, Wilmington, DE; Brian J. Merritt, New Castle County Office of Law, New Castle, DE for respondents.
    Case Number: D69150

    Petitioner's effort to enforce, as a third-party beneficiary, a settlement agreement to provide sewer service dismissed as unripe where petitioner had failed to exhaust its administrative remedies with the county by requesting service and where any ruling would merely be advisory in nature as the required contingencies under the settlement had not yet been met.

  • iBio, Inc. v. Fraunhofer USA, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2020-10-14
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Biotechnology
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David E. Ross, Eric D. Selden, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Reed S. Oslan, Mark W. Premo-Hopkins, Britt Cramer, Lee M. Mason, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Todd C. Schiltz, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Wilmington, DE; Paul H. Saint-Antoine, D. Alicia Hickok, Richard E. Coe, Mark D. Taticchi, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Philadelphia, PA for defendant.
    Case Number: D69151

    Fraud, unjust enrichment and conversion claims arising from alleged breach of technology development and transfer agreement dismissed on summary judgment where such claims were merely bootstrapped or were otherwise preempted by existing contractual and statutory trade secret claims.

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  • Fannin v. UMTH Land Dev., L.P.

    Publication Date: 2020-09-16
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Real Estate
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Kriner, Jr. and Tiffany J. Cramer, Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Steven L. Caponi, K&L Gates LLP, Wilmington, DE; John W. Rotunno, Paul J. Walsen, Joseph C. Wylie II, Molly K. McGinley, Matthew A. Alvis, K&L Gates LLP, Chicago, IL; Myron T. Steele, Timothy R. Dudderar, Jacqueline A. Rogers, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69118

    Limited partners' fiduciary claims survived dismissal where limited partners could rely on misleading disclosures regarding challenged transactions, where the general partners and controllers failed to eliminate fiduciary duties from the partnership agreement, and where general partner's financial interest in challenged transactions was sufficient to establish demand futility.

  • Swipe Acquisition Corp. v. Krauss

    Publication Date: 2020-09-09
    Practice Area: Deals and Transactions
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David E. Ross and S. Michael Sirkin, Ross Aranstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael Farhang, Ari Lanin and Samuel A. Spears, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Michael F. Bonkowski, Cole Schotz, P.C., Wilmington, DE; Kevin A. Reck, Kara M. Wick and Emily Lang, Foley & Lardner LLP, Orlando, FL; Louis J. Rizzo, Jr., Reger Rizzo & Darnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; William E. Shmidheiser, III, Flora Pettit, Harrisonburg; Raymond H. Lemisch, Klehr, Harrison, Harvey & Branzburg LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69114

    Buyers stated claims for breach of contract, indemnity and fraud in connection with the sale of a business, because sellers failed to disclose important customer information.

  • Fannin v. UMTH Land Dev. L.P.

    Publication Date: 2020-08-19
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Kriner, Jr. and Tiffany J. Cramer, Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Steven L. Caponi, K&L Gates LLP, Wilmington, DE; John W. Rotunno, Paul J. Walsen, Joseph C. Wylie II, Molly K. McGinley, Matthew A. Alvis, K&L Gates LLP, Chicago, IL; Myron T. Steele, Timothy R. Dudderar, Jacqueline A. Rogers, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D69086

    Court declined to dismiss breach of fiduciary duty claims where general partner and controller affiliates had not removed fiduciary duties from the partnership agreement and where plaintiffs were entitled to rely on disclosures related to challenged transactions and thus were not on inquiry notice of their claims.

  • Schneider Nat'l Carriers, Inc. v. Kuntz

    Publication Date: 2020-07-29
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Pittenger and Caneel Radinson-Blasucci, Potter, Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Locke Beatty, Brian Riopelle and Heryka R. Knoespel, McGuire Woods LLP, Raleigh, NC for plaintiff.
    for defendant: John M. Seaman and Matthew L. Miller, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Anthony S. Fiotto and Kate E. MacLeman Goodwin Proctor LLP, Boston, MA for defendant.
    Case Number: D69068

    Factual issues regarding the parties' obligations under an asset purchase agreement and conflicting testimony about the parties' negotiations precluded summary judgment.

  • Stone & Paper Investors, LLC v. Blanch

    Publication Date: 2020-07-15
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard I.G. Jones, Jr., Berger Harris LLP, Wilmington, DE; David Lackowitz, Zaid Shukri, Moses & Singer LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Catherine Damavandi, Nurick Law Group, LLC for Blanch, Red Bridge and Clovis Holdings defendants. Evan O. Williford, The Williford Firm LLC, Wilmington, DE for Skinner defendants.
    Case Number: D69052

    Defendants adequately alleged counterclaims for breach of contract and unjust enrichment, but the court granted plaintiff's motion to dismiss the remainder of the counterclaims.