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Publication Date: 2024-02-12
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary F. Dugan, Emily V. Burton, Tanner C. Jameson, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Ethan H. Townsend, Daniel T. Menken, Ryan D. Konstanzer, McDermott Will & Emery LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
Case Number: 2023-0671-LWW
Manager and member of LLC remained the manager of the company where the LLC agreement required his involvement and approval for any amendment, such that the other investors in the company could not unilaterally amend the agreement to remove the manager.
Publication Date: 2024-02-12
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Construction | Real Estate
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary E. Junge, Scott E. Chambers, Schmittinger & Rodriguez, P.A., Dover, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Donald L. Gouge, Jr., Donald L. Gouge, Jr., LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2020-0189-PAF
Court found that parties agreed to LLC agreement naming them equal members and co-managers, based on the parties' course of conduct following agreement that was consistent with the material terms of the agreement.
Publication Date: 2024-02-05
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Fioravanti
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas W. Briggs, Jr., Morris Nichols Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Laura D. Smolowe, John M. Gildersleeve, Sara H. Worth, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Michael A. Barlow, Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Steven G. Madison, Joseph Sarles, William Pilon, Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendants.
Case Number: 2022-0415-PAF
Court affirmed arbitration award where defendants failed to present evidence sufficient to show that the arbitral panel's interpretation of the parties' agreements was palpably incorrect.
Publication Date: 2024-02-05
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin H. Davenport, John G. Day, Jason W. Rigby, Prickett, Jones & Elliot P.A., Wilmington, DE; R. Bruce McNew, Cooch & Taylor P.A., Wilmington, DE; Christopher H. Lyons, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Wilmington; DE; Randall J. Baron, Rick T. Atwood, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, CA; Brett Middleton, Johnson Fistel, LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
for defendant: Stephen E. Jenkins, Richard D. Heins, Ashby & Geddes, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Tariq Mundiya, Sameer Advani, Richard Li, M. Annie Houghton-Larsen, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, NY for defendants.
Case Number: 2020-1061-JTL
Court imposed sanctions in the form of a factual presumption on a key issue, which defendants could only rebut with clear and convincing evidence, after defendants admittedly took no action to preserve electronically stored information in response to litigation hold notices.
Publication Date: 2024-01-29
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Seitz
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory V. Varallo, Daniel E. Meyer, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, Wilmington, DE; Mark Lebovitch, Edward G. Timlin, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, New York, NY for appellants.
for defendant: William B. Chandler III, Brad D. Sorrels, Amy L. Simmerman, Daniyal M. Iqbal, Nora M. Crawford, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Wilmington, DE; Mark R. Yohalem, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., Los Angeles, CA; William M. Lafferty, Susan W. Waesco, Alexandra M. Cumings, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.
Case Number: 2022-1007
Ability to sue corporate officers for fiduciary violations was not a "power, preference, or special right" of a class of stock and thus a proposed amendment to add an officer exculpation clause did not require a separate class vote under the Delaware General Corporation Law.
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Publication Date: 2024-01-22
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher B. Chuff, Joanna J. Cline, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Wilmington, DE; A. Christopher Young, Erica H. Dressler, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiff.
for defendant: Blake Rohrbacher, Matthew D. Perri, Morgan R. Harrison, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Joseph M. McLaughlin, Anthony C. Piccirillo, Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett LLP, New York, NY for defendant.
Case Number: 2018-0907-JTL
Company erred in submitting legal issues to its appraiser that fell outside the scope of the appraiser's limited authority to resolve legal issues concerning the company's operating agreement, as the appraiser was an expert rather than an arbitrator with plenary authority.
Publication Date: 2024-01-15
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Electronics | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Cook
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bradley R. Aronstam, R. Garrett Rice, Holly E. Newell, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Brian M. Burnovski, Andrew Ditchfield, Pascale Bibi, Nikolaus J. Williams, Marie Killmond, Danielle Mullery, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
for defendant: William M. Lafferty, Ryan D. Stottmann, Lauren K. Neal, Alec Hoeschel, Grant E. Michl, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnel LLP, Wilmington, DE; Hallie B. Levin, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, New York, NY; Timothy Perla, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP, Boston, MA; William Savitt, Jonathan M. Moses, Elaine Golin, Graham W. Meli, Ryan A. McLeod, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY; Eric Seiler, Lance J. Gotko, Jason Rubinstein, David J. Ranzenhofer, Sofie Syed, Friedman Kaplan Seiler, Adelman & Robbins LLP, New York, NY; Kurt M. Heyman, Elizabeth A. DeFelice, Heyman Enerio Gattuso & Hirzel LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2023-0382-NAC
Majority owner's intentional acts to remove founders from the company to eliminate their right to designate board members materially interfered with those rights in violation of the parties' stockholders' agreement's "reasonable efforts" clause.
Publication Date: 2024-01-15
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Biotechnology | Pharmaceuticals
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Will
Attorneys: For plaintiff: John M. Seaman, Eliezer Y. Feinstein, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
for defendant: Michael A. Pittenger, William R. Denny, Matthew F. Davis, Nicholas D. Mozal, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: C.A. No. 2023-0879-LWW
Court denied injunction of corporate annual meeting pending appeal where delaying the meeting could be inequitable to the company and any prejudice plaintiff might suffer in the absence of injunctive relief was partially self-inflicted.
Publication Date: 2024-01-08
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Legal Services | Technology Media and Telecom
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Laster
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel Friedlander, Jeffrey M. Gorris, Christopher M. Foulds, Friedlander & Gorris, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Julie Goldsmith Reiser, Molly J. Bowen, Brendan Schneiderman, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Washington, DC; Katherine Lubin Benson, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, San Francisco, CA; Nicholas Diamond, Gabriel A. Panek, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, New York, NY; Ellen Rosenblum, Attorney General, Brian A. de Haan, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Oregon Department of Justice, Portland, OR; Andrew E. Blumberg, Daniel E. Meyer, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP, Wilmington, DE; Ned Weinberger, Labaton Sucharow LLP, Wilmington, DE; Christopher H. Lyons, Tayler D. Bolton, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Wilmington, DE; Randall J. Baron, David A. Knotts, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, CA; Lee Rudy, Eric L. Zagar, Geoffrey C. Jarvis, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check, LLP, Radnor, PA; Jeremy Friedman, David Tejtel, Friedman Oster & Tejtel PLLC, Bedford Hills, NY for plaintiffs.
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Case Number: 2023-0418-JTL
Court granted the application of a plaintiff team to lead a consolidated derivative action where counsel had organized the stronger litigation team and the selected plaintiffs consistent of public agencies/officials with extensive financial experience.
Publication Date: 2024-01-01
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Pharmaceuticals
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Traynor
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel L. Closic, Eric J. Juray, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Gregory V. Varallo, Andrew Blumberg, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellants.
for defendant: Stephen C. Norman, Jennifer C. Wasson, Tyler J. Leavengood, Christopher D. Renaud, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Michael S. Doluisio, Brittany Zoll, Christopher J. Merken, Dechert LLP, Philadelphia, PA; Matthew L. Larrabee, Hayoung Park, Julia Markham-Cameron, Dechert LLP, New York, NY; Michael D. Blanchard, Amelia Pennington, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP, Boston, MA for appellees.
Case Number: 22, 2023
Chancery court erred in adopting West Virginia court's factual findings through judicial notice where such facts were disputed by the parties to the present action.
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