• Prod. Madness, Inc. v. Kingston

    Publication Date: 2024-06-03
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: E-Commerce | Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan D. Stottmann, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Robert J. Kriner, Jr., Chimicles, Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 2024-0040-MTZ

    Court denied confidentiality of litigation record motion where parties could not rely on a contractual provision to demand confidentiality and movant failed to overcome the presumption in favor of public access.

  • BuzzFeed Media Enter., Inc. v. Anderson

    Publication Date: 2024-05-27
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: E-Commerce | Entertainment and Leisure | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rolin P. Bissell, Elena C. Norman, Kevin P. Rickert, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Mary Eaton, Thomas Walsh, Christian Vandergeest, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: David A. Felice, Bailey & Glasser LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kevin D. Galbraith, The Galbraith Law Firm, New York, NY; Sean R. O’Brien, A.J. Monaco, O’Brien LLP, New York, NY; Joseph Gallagher, Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: 2023-0377-MTZ

    Employment agreements' statement of parties' agreement to arbitrate claims generally and reference to AAA created presumption of parties' intention to delegate questions of substantive arbitrability to the arbitrator.

  • City of Pittsburgh Comprehensive Mun. Pension Trust Fund v. Conway

    Publication Date: 2024-05-06
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joel Friedlander, Jeffrey M. Gorris, Christopher M. Foulds, Friedlander & Gorris, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Christopher H. Lyons, Tayler D. Bolton, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Wilmington, DE; Randall J. Baron, Benny C. Goodman III, Andrew W. Hutton, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, CA; Gladriel Shobe, Jarrod Shobe, Shobe & Shobe, LLP, Provo, UT for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Blake Rohrbacher, Matthew D. Perri, Nicole M. Henry, Morgan R. Harrison, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Robert A. Van Kirk, John Williams, Tyler Infinger, Bryan Czako, William Donnelly, Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC for defendants.

    Case Number: 2022-0664-MTZ

    Plaintiff adequately pled breach of contractual duty of good faith when general partner concealed information indicating that equityholders lacked legal leverage to force a settlement payment for the loss of tax receivable agreement rights in exchange for their approval of the corporate conversion.

  • Cedres v. Geoffrey Serv. Corp.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-15
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Construction | Real Estate
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nathan D. Barillo, Fox Rothschild LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Edward J. Fornias, III, Law Office of EJ Fornias, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: 2020-0745-MTZ

    Court declined to enforce a settlement against defendants' affiliates who were non-parties to the underlying action, as Ct. Ch. R. 71 could not supply an independent basis to extend jurisdiction over non-parties in the absence of due process.

  • Morris v. Delmarva Real Estate Holdings, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-02-19
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul G. Enterline, Georgetown, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Brian J. Ferry, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 2022-1211-MTZ

    Option contract with firm deadline for exercise effectively contained a "time is of the essence" provision regardless of whether the contract used that specific phrase.

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  • Mercury Partners Mgmt., LLC v. Valo Health, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-19
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian E. Farnan, Farnan LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Rudolf Koch, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 2023-0318-MTZ

    Court declined interlocutory review where appeal did not raise novel or conflicting issues of law regarding decision to decline specific performance on a best efforts clause.

  • Conte v. Greenberg

    Publication Date: 2024-02-19
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Consumer Products | Manufacturing
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas A. Uebler, Terisa A. Shoremoun, McCollom D’Emilio Smith Uebler LLC, Wilmington, DE; Melinda A. Nicholson, Nicolas Kravitz, Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC, New Orleans, LA; Roger A. Sachar, Newman Ferrara LLP, New York, NY; Domenico Minerva, Labaton Sucharow LLP, New York, NY for plaintiff.
    for defendant: A. Thompson Bayliss, E. Wade Houston, Eliezer Y. Feinstein, Daniel G. Paterno, Abrams & Bayliss LLP, Wilmington, DE; Brad D. Brian, John M. Gildersleeve, Abraham B. Dyk, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Kenneth J. Nachbar, Susan W. Waesco, Miranda N. Gilbert, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Abby F. Rudzin, O’Melveny & Myers LLP, New York, NY; Matthew F. Davis, Tyler J. Leavengood, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Kenneth A. O’Brien, Jr., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendants.

    Case Number: 2022-0633-MTZ MEMORANDUM OPINION

    Plaintiff failed to plead demand futility due to the lack of directors' personal liability for oversight and corporate waste claims, as the failure to implement a formal policy governing executives' personal use of corporate aircraft did not, by itself, amount to bad faith, and any financial loss from personal use constituted a fraction of a percentage of the company's expenses and profits.

  • Labyrinth, Inc. v. Urich

    Publication Date: 2024-02-05
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Software
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Blake Rohrbacher, John D. Hendershot, Sandy Xu, Morgan R. Harrison, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Kira N. Lum, Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld LLC, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Jesse L. Noa, Tyler E. Cragg, Andrew Moshos, Hannah L. Paxton, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.

    Case Number: 2023-0327-MTZ

    Buyers in corporate acquisition adequately pled fraud claims where acquisition agreement expressly stated that seller had not changed its accounting practices even though seller's owners expressly accelerated the collection of accounts receivable, which made attached financials inaccurate.

  • Perik v. Student Res. Ctr., LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-01-29
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Education
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin M. Coen, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Jeffrey J. Lyons, Baker & Hostetler LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.

    Case Number: 2023-0813-MTZ

    Court declined to enter summary judgment where there was a genuine issue of material fact as to whether plaintiffs had provided valid consent to the elimination/revocation of their vested advancement rights under the companies' operating agreements upon the amendment/restatement of those agreements.

  • City of Hialeah Employees' Ret. Sys. v. Insight Venture Partners, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-01-08
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Investments and Investment Advisory | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Curry, Tayler D. Bolton, Saxena White P.A., Wilmington, DE; David Wales, Saxena White P.A., White Plains, NY; Adam Warden, Saxena White P.A., Boca Raton, FL; Peter B. Andrews, Craig J. Springer, David M. Sborz, Andrew J. Peach, Jackson E. Warren, Jacob D. Jeifa, Wilmington, DE, Andrews & Springer LLC for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Garrett B. Moritz, S. Reiko Rogozen, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Steven M. Farina, George A. Borden, Brian T. Gilmore, Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC; William M. Lafferty, Ryan D. Stottmann, Rachel R. Tunney, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE; Tariq Mundiya, Jeffrey B. Korn, Richard Li, Ciara A. Sisco, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, NY for defendants.

    Case Number: 2022-0846-MTZ

    Plaintiff failed to plead demand futility for derivative complaint where controller's ability to remove board members by itself could not establish a lack of independence and a majority of the board's financial ties did not prevent them from exercising independent judgment.