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Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

The World Has Changed: McDonald’s and the Oversight Duty of Officers - Part 1

There is a reason that lawyer truisms are just that: because they are based in fact. One of those truisms is that bad facts make bad laws. I saw that in the first year I started practicing law in case in Texas which forever...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

The Importance of Full Disclosure

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Directors and officers of corporations owe a duty of care and a duty of loyalty to both the corporation and its shareholders, although the duty of care for directors can be exculpated. A breach of these fiduciary duties can...more

A&O Shearman

Delaware Court Of Chancery Dismisses Demand-Refused Derivative Suit After Considering The Disinterestedness Of The Special...

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On February 12, 2019, Vice Chancellor Kathaleen S. McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery granted a motion to dismiss a stockholder derivative suit against the former CEO and directors of United Continental Holdings,...more

Allen Matkins

Directors Fail To Escape Liability For Approving Dividend

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I last wrote about FDIC v. Ching, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 92687 (E.D. Cal. July 8, 2014) in July of 2014. That post concerned Judge Kimberly J. Mueller's ruling that California's statutory restrictions on distributions to...more

BCLP

Changes in Georgia’s Law on Director Duties

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On July 1, 2017, significant amendments to the director and officer liability provisions of Georgia’s Financial Institution Code and Business Corporation Code will take effect. These amendments, adopted as House Bill 192...more

Benesch

Perspectives - September/October 2015

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In a decision in which no opinion commanded a majority, the Ohio Supreme Court sided with a private entity — a charter school operator — in a dispute over the ownership of personal property purchased by the operator with...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Fourth Circuit: Business Judgment Rule May Not Protect Bank Officers in FDIC Action

Why it matters - Bank officers may be liable in a lawsuit brought by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) while the directors escaped liability, in a new ruling from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals interpreting...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Georgia Supreme Court: Business Judgment Rule Valid, But Bank Officers Can Still Be Liable

In the context of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) litigation against the former directors and officers of a failed bank, the Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the validity of the business judgment rule in the...more

Sherman & Howard L.L.C.

Does the Business Judgment Rule Protect Bank Officers and Directors?

When a corporation suffers significant losses, or ultimately fails, frustrated shareholders, creditors, or others often try to sue the corporation and/or its officers and directors for losses caused by mismanagement of the...more

Nossaman LLP

Limited Defenses Available Against FDIC As Receiver

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As of August 2013, since the fallout from the recent financial crisis, the FDIC as receiver for failed banks has brought suit against former directors and officers of 76 failed institutions. These lawsuits are based on...more

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