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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
Publication Date: 2023-11-27
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Aerospace | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Catherine A. Gaul, Michael J. Vail, Ashby & Geddes, P.A., Wilmington, DE; David W. Affeld, Edward E. Johnson, Affeld Grivakes LLP, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiffs.
for defendant: William E. Manning, Jessica M. Jones, Michelle C. Streifthau-Livizos, Saul Ewing LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendants.
Case Number: 2022-0652-MTZ
Although plaintiffs failed to identify a contractual provision expressly requiring defendants to operate their aviation-related businesses through the parties' LLC, plaintiffs sufficiently alleged breaches of fiduciary duties by claiming that defendants usurped that business opportunity and caused the LLC to instead engage in marginally profitable interested transactions.
Publication Date: 2023-11-13
Practice Area: Mergers and Acquisitions
Industry: Energy | Investments and Investment Advisory
Court: Delaware Supreme Court
Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter B. Andrews, Craig J. Springer, David M. Sborz, Andrew J. Peach, Jackson E. Warren, Andrews & Springer LLC, Wilmington, DE; Joshua Fruchter, Wohl & Fruchter LLP, Monsey, NY for plaintiffs.
for defendant: Tammy L. Mercer, James M. Yoch, Jr., Michael A. Laukaitis II, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Craig Zieminski, Andy Jackson, Jeremy Gonzales, Vinson & Elkins, LLP, Dallas, TX for defendants.
Case Number: 2022-0248-MTZ
Court declined to award a substantial success fee to stockholders who obtained supplemental disclosures to merger proxy where the disclosures did not remove an impediment to the stockholders' vote, but the disclosures provided a meaningful corporate benefit by informing stockholders about the transaction committee's affiliations with a controlling stockholder sitting on both sides of the merger transaction.
Publication Date: 2023-09-11
Practice Area: Corporate Governance
Industry: Agriculture | Consulting | Consumer Products
Court: Court of Chancery
Judge: Vice Chancellor Zurn
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce E. Jameson, Eric J. Juray, Jason W. Rigby, Robert B. Lackey, Prickett, Jones & Elliott, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Thomas H. Vidal, Shamar Toms-Anthony, Pryor Cashman LLP, Los Angeles, CA for plaintiff.
for defendant: David A. Felice, Bailey & Glasser, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Evan W. Bolla, Megan Dubatowka, Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler LLP, New York, NY for defendant.
Case Number: 2022-0098-MTZ
Reasoning that under the plain language of 8 Del. C. § 145 a director or officer may recover for fees incurred by a wholly owned entity, the court held that plaintiff was entitled to indemnification for breach of contract claims brought against an entity owned by him as well as for counterclaims brought by him and the entity.
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