Enforcement mechanisms available to creditors of Delaware corporations may include, inter alia, claims against directors to recover unlawful dividends under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (8 Del. C. Section 174), and fraudulent transfer claims against the corporation and transferees including, where Delaware law applies, under Delaware’s Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, referred to as DUFTA (6 Del. C. Section 1301). In JPMorgan Chase Bank v. Ballard, C.A. No. 2018-0274-AGB (Del. Ch. July 11, 2019), Chancellor Andre G. Bouchard of the Delaware Court of Chancery addressed three important questions of first impression concerning standing and limitations periods issues under these statutes.

Background

Data Treasury Corp. (DTC) is a Delaware corporation whose primary business allegedly was suing financial institutions for infringement of check-imaging patents. DTC sued JPMorgan, and, in 2005, settled its claims in exchange for a $70 million licensing arrangement. The license agreement contained a “most-favored license provision,” providing that if DTC later licensed the patents to another party, JPMorgan would be entitled to notice and “the benefit of any and all more favorable terms.”

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