The American Lawyer | Analysis
By Dan Roe | April 9, 2024
"They didn't care because they were making too much money off of it, and now it's especially sad that they're finding yet another way to make money off of the very problems they helped create," Yale Law School professor John Morley said of the corporate lawyers who participated in the frenzy.
By Steve Quinlivan and Kelly Stout | March 18, 2024
A Delaware Court of Chancery decision to invalidate significant portions of a stockholder agreement could have a marked impact on public companies, impacting M&A activities such as joint ventures, settlements with activist investors and minority venture capital investments.
Delaware Business Court Insider | News
By Ellen Bardash | August 23, 2023
Sullivan & Cromwell partner Brian Glueckstein said the sheer volume of claims involved in the case—around nine million in total—makes it a candidate for keeping smaller settlements moving without court oversight as a way of avoiding spending more time and money than necessary.
By Michael A. Mora | April 3, 2023
"This is a classic case of a registered exchange, which is promoting the sale of an unregistered security," the plaintiffs alleged in the lawsuit.
Delaware Business Court Insider | News
By Dan Roe | January 13, 2022
Practice leaders are using the historic Chapter 11 slowdown to form teams around the companies and sectors most likely to go bankrupt by 2023.
Delaware Business Court Insider | News
By Ellen Bardash | September 8, 2021
Two claims brought by plaintiff shareholders were dismissed, but shareholders were determined by the court to have met the high bar of proving Boeing directors were likely to be held liable for the lack of safety checks.
Delaware Business Court Insider | Analysis
By Ross Todd | May 11, 2021
Litigators at Latham & Watkins and Quinn Emanuel both expect the drastic uptick in special purpose acquisition company deal activity to spawn lawsuits. Here's where they see the fault lines.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Mark Lebovitch, Gregory Varallo and Thomas James | November 25, 2020
Corporate issuers have recently adopted highly aggressive poison pills that seek to quell stockholder activism; investors have responded by seeking expedited trials to establish the boundary lines of Delaware law.
By Leigh Jones | Vanessa Blum | January 31, 2020
In conjunction with the launch of our new website, Law.com International, Lisa Shuchman, senior editor of the site, takes us around the world to explain what the implications of political unrest in Hong Kong, the Coronavirus, Brexit, the growth of class actions in Australia, and much more mean for Big Law and beyond.
Delaware Business Court Insider | Commentary
By Taylor D. Anderson | September 18, 2019
In a recent decision, Bay Capital Finance v. Barnes and Noble Education, the Delaware Court of Chancery interpreted and analyzed the effect of stockholder noncompliance with the express requirements of an advance notice bylaw.
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