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  • Fortis Advisors LLC v. Allergan W.C. Holding Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-11-13
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bradley R. Aronstam and Roger S. Stronach, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Martin S. Schenker, Matthew D. Caplan and Kristine A. Forderer, Cooley LLP, San Francisco, CA; Michael A. Barlow and Daniel J. McBride, Abrams & Bay-liss LLP, Wilmington, DE
    for defendant: David W. Haller of Covington & Burling LLP, New York, NY for defendant.
    Case Number: D68769

    Plaintiff adequately stated a claim for breach of a merger agreement based on defendant's failure to make a milestone pay-ment and to use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain approval for a medical device.

  • Freed v. St. Jude Med., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-10-30
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Health Care | Manufacturing
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Burke
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David G. Culley, Tybout, Redfearn & Pell, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Brian M. Rostocki and Benjamin P. Chapple, Reed Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE; J. David Bickham, Reed Smith LLP, San Francisco, CA; Lisa M. Baird, Reed Smith LLP, Miami, FL; and Michael K. Brown, Reed Smith LLP, Los Angeles, CA for defendants.
    Case Number: D68751

    Products liability claims not dismissed where defendants failed to raise arguments in favor of dismissal in defendants' motion to dismiss plaintiffs' prior version of their complaint containing similar or identical claims.

  • Gluhic-Popovic v. American Med. Sys.

    Publication Date: 2019-10-30
    Practice Area: Products Liability
    Industry: Health Care | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Johnston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Leoni, Shelsby & Leoni, Stanton, DE; Jeffrey Brinen, Kutner Brinen, P.C., Denver CO; Shanin Specter and Lee B. Balefsky, Kline & Specter, P.C., Philadelphia, PA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Brian M. Rostocki, Stephen J. McConnell and Justin M. Forcier, Reed Smith LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D68753

    Plaintiff had standing to file this products liability case even though she was a debtor in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy proceeding.

  • Sheldon v. Pinto Tech. Ventures, L.P.

    Publication Date: 2019-10-23
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance
    Industry: Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory | Manufacturing
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thad J. Bracegirdle, Scott B. Czerwonka, Wilks, Lukoff & Bracegirdle, LLC, Wilmington, DE for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Bruce E. Jameson, Samuel L. Closic, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; B. Russell Horton, Gary L. Lewis, George Brothers Kincaid & Horton LLP, Austin, TX for Pinto, Rivervest and Bay City Capital defendants. Brian C. Ralston, Jacqueline A. Rogers, Potter Anderson Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Danny David, Rebeca Huddle, Baker Botts L.L.P., Houston, TX for defendants Terry and Walker.
    Case Number: D68749

    Plaintiffs failed to adequately allege the existence of a control group in this breach of fiduciary duty matter, so the chancery court properly dismissed the complaint. Affirmed.

  • Finom Mgmt. GMBH v. Celerion Holdco, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-10-02
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. District Court of Delaware
    Judge: District Judge Stark
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher J. Day, Day Law Group, LLC, Wilmington, DE; Joseph M. Donley, Peter Blume and Christopher M. Brubaker, Clark Hill PLC, Philadelphia, PA for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: Travis S. Hunter, Tyler E. Cragg and Alexandra M. Ewing, Richards Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D68721

    Plaintiffs adequately alleged that defendants engaged in bad faith violations of the parties' redemption agreement, but the court dismissed the remainder of plaintiffs' claim.

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  • Eagle Force Holdings, LLC v. Campbell

    Publication Date: 2019-09-11
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Montgomery-Reeves
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank E. Noyes, II, Offit Kurman, P.A., Wilmington, DE, Harold M. Walter and Angela D. Pallozzi, Offit Kurman, P.A., Baltimore, MD for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: David L. Finger, Finger & Slanina, LLC, Wilmington, DE, for defendant.
    Case Number: D68695

    Parties' prior practice of signing draft transaction documents to acknowledge receipt overcame presumption that signature manifested intent to be contractually bound, such that plaintiffs failed to prove defendant's intent to be bound to agreements that provided choice of forum clause.

  • NuVasive, Inc. v. Miles

    Publication Date: 2019-09-11
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Health Care | Manufacturing
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Philip Trainer, Jr. and Aaron P. Sayers, Ashby & Geddes, Wilmington, DE; Rachel B. Cowen, Michael J. Sheehan and Emory D. Moore, Jr., McDermott Will & Emery, Chicago, IL; Christopher W. Cardwell, Gullet, Sanford, Robinson & Martin, Nash-ville, TN for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Philip A. Rovner and Jonathan A. Choa, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP, Wilmington, DE; Micha Danzig, Eric J. Eastham and Paul M. Huston, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo, P.C., San Diego, CA for defendant.
    Case Number: D68699

    Although the parties' employment contract contained a choice of law provision in favor of Delaware, another state's public policy disfavored restraints on trade, so that state had a materially greater interest than Delaware with respect to the contract's non-solicitation and non-compete provisions.

  • Avande, Inc. v. Evans

    Publication Date: 2019-08-28
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry: Accounting | Health Care | Insurance
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Chancellor Bouchard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thad. J. Bracegirdle and Julie M. O’Dell, Wilks, Lukoff & Bracegirdle LLC, Wilmington, DE, Jerome R. Bowen, Bowen Law Offices, Las Vegas, NV for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Sean J. Bellew, Bellew, LLC, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
    Case Number: D68678

    Company could force former CEO to provide accounting of transactions with company owned by the CEO, but failed to make prima facie case to require CEO to undertake accounting of all other challenged transactions since many other company employees were authorized to make expenditures.

  • GMF ELCM Fund L.P. v. ELCM HCRE GP LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-08-21
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities
    Industry: Health Care | Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor Glasscock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David E. Ross and Bradley R. Aronstam, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE; Joshua S. Amsel, Matthew R. Friedenberg, and Thomas G. James, Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, New York, NY for plaintiffs.
    for defendant: David E. Ross and Bradley R. Aronstam, Ross Aronstam & Moritz LLP, Wilmington, DE for receiver.
    Case Number: D67675

    Judicial dissolution of limited partnership granted where principal manager demonstrated unwillingness or inability to operate business based on repeated refusals to work with court-appointed receiver or comply with court orders.

  • Horton v. Organogenesis Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-08-07
    Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Health Care | Manufacturing
    Court: Court of Chancery
    Judge: Vice Chancellor McCormick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John L. Reed, Matthew Denn and Peter H. Kyle, DLA Piper LLP (US), Wilmington, DE for plaintiff.
    for defendant: Carl D. Neff and Kasey H. DeSantis, Fox Rothschild LLP, Wilmington, DE; Matthew C. Baltay, Foley Hoag LLP, Boston, MA for defendant.
    Case Number: D68657

    Defendant adequately stated a counterclaim for indemnification based on breaches of representations and warranties, but the court dismissed a counterclaim for indemnification based on losses which had not yet been incurred.