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SEC Defeats Summary Judgment in Insider-Trading Suit Alleging “Shadow Trading”

The SEC defeated a motion for summary judgment brought by a defendant whom the SEC accused of engaging in insider trading based on news about a not-yet-public corporate acquisition when he purchased securities of a company...more

Dechert LLP

Delaware Court of Chancery Finds for Oracle Founder Larry Ellison and CEO Safra Catz in Post-Trial Decision Arising from Oracle’s...

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Court of Chancery holds that conflicted transactions involving a potential controller may still be considered under the deferential business judgment rule, rather than entire fairness, if the evidence does not establish the...more

Conn Kavanaugh

Failure to Register With FINRA as a Broker-Dealer Can Cost Mergers and Acquisitions Brokers Dearly

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Conn Kavanaugh attorneys Andrew R. Dennington and Julie M. Muller recently secured a significant win for their client before the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals. The First Circuit affirmed that summary judgment properly...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - September 2019 #2

Curver Luxembourg, SARL v. Home Expressions Inc., Appeal No. 2018-2214 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 12, 2019) In a significant case in the field of design patents, the Federal Circuit clarified the scope of design patent infringement...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Inside the Courts – An Update From Skadden Securities Litigators - November 2017/ Volume 9 / Issue 4

This quarter’s issue includes summaries and associated court opinions of selected cases principally decided between August 2017 and October 2017....more

A&O Shearman

Texas Federal District Court Invalidates IRS Regulations Limiting Inversion Transactions

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On September 29, 2017, the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas granted summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Texas Association of Business, holding that the Internal Revenue...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Seventh Circuit Rules that Company’s Distributor Is Not its Competitor

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The sale of a business virtually always involves a promise by the seller not to engage in competition with the purchaser, within certain time and geographic parameters. Frequently, such agreements contain robust prohibitions...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Delaware Court of Chancery Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Defendants with Respect to Acquisition of Answers.com

On February 3, 2014, Vice Chancellor John Noble of the Delaware Court of Chancery granted summary judgment in favor of defendants, dismissing a class action lawsuit arising out the acquisition of Answers Corporation (Answers)...more

Cozen O'Connor

Eighth Circuit Adopts An Expansive Definition of Newly Acquired Property

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On July 23, a unanimous panel of the 8th Circuit held that it was reasonable to contend that a port terminal, where a shipping company hired by the policyholder had stored a piece of the insured’s equipment for six days,...more

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