The past year saw significant developments in the Delaware courts for books and records inspection demands pursuant to Section 220.
In a first-of-its-kind decision, the Court rejected an inspection demand as lacking a...more
Delaware Supreme Court Articulates a New Standard for Demand Futility and Overturns Gentile v. Rosson - In the third quarter, two new cases from the Delaware Supreme Court altered the legal landscape of derivative actions...more
For the first time in several years, securities fraud cases declined in 2020, largely due to the pandemic. However, we don’t expect this decrease to continue. Just three months into 2021, there are a number of issues trending...more
With its recent decision in Westmoreland County Employee Retirement System v. Parkinson, et al., the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has confirmed that the courts of the Seventh Circuit can be a...more
In a recent ruling, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit concluded that certain related shareholder derivative suits arising out of a say-on-pay decision involving Pico Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) were...more
Decisions regarding executive compensation fall squarely within the discretion of a public company’s board of directors. Recently, however, plaintiffs’ firms have been trying to invade the board’s purview by bringing...more