A law firm can be sued for preparing a misleading proxy statement for a corporate client that had to pay more than $30 million to minority shareholders as a result, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday.
The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district judge who found the proxy could not have been the proximate cause of the client’s damages because the client’s liability was predicated on an independent duty to compensate its shareholders.
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